cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/63938
Written by u/BoycottUSA4Now on Reddit
It's so pathetic, reading how some Americans believe Trump's lies. Trump is doing the right thing, they wonder why a president hasn't done it before. Some Americans obviously are very simple and uneducated. Unbelievable. Nevertheless, we must not forget that there is still another America. Americans who go along with this boycott.
I used to live for about a year in the USA, years ago. None of my friends there voted for Trump, they are as much shocked as me. These Americans do also exist! So what are my reasons and those around me (Germany) for the boycott? Even before the election, Trump only stirred up hatred and spoke of revenge. All opponents would be eliminated. The criminals who stormed the Capitol in Nazi SS style, where there were even deaths, were pardoned. They are free and now the heroes.
Trump is not interested in the victims and their families, just as he is only interested in power and nothing else. Trump denies all scientific knowledge. Climate change is denied. Trump is de facto ending democracy in the USA. He has indirectly announced exactly that: You only have to vote once more, then no more. Trump fights any other opinion. Trump is dissolving important institutions such as the Ministry of Education etc. (Germany is already successfully recruiting good US scientists, just as the USA used to do.) Trump is only interested in money. Trump is not interested in people, not even Americans. He is only interested in himself and power. Trump lies constantly, only a few have the opportunity to contradict him, as Macron skillfully and kindly did on camera when Trump as always gave completely false data about the support for Ukraine. Pentagon deletes images of black World War II soldiers! He changes history.
All together. Trump is a dictator. Right now he is turning the USA into a dictatorship that is not better than China or Russia. These are some of the reasons. It has nothing to do with tariffs. As far as I know, Merz, the next Chancellor of Germany, was the first to say it, albeit indirectly like everyone else: the USA is the new enemy of Germany, of Europe, of the entire Western world, of the free world, to which the USA no longer belongs and can no longer belong in the future after this loss of trust, which cannot be repaired and will continue to put a strain on the relationship between Western democracies for a very, very long time after Trump, also in the case if US democtatie should survive Trump. The relationship between the USA and Western democracies is over for the foreseeable future. The West has already started to move towards a future without the USA. This will continue, and on a massive scale. Politicians from different countries have now said it several times: The West needs a new leading power. Nobody wants the USA anymore, because the USA is the enemy. And that has nothing to do with tariffs.
There are certainly many other reasons that can be added, such as the perverse game with Ukraine, which has shown the full malice of this perverse US government. Many reasons to boycott, but certainly not tariffs. They could simply be reciprocated and that would be fine, no more needed.