European Media Angered and Dismayed at President Trump’s First 100 Days
The Economist (UK): “100 days of Trump” have led to “growing dismay in Europe.”
European mainstream media outlets, shocked by President Donald Trump’s stunning victory in November 2024, appear even more rattled and outraged at his first 100 days in office. They repackaged their old and stale talking points, and prophesied nothing less than impending doom and tyranny for all Americans if President Trump were to stay the course.
Germany’s state-owned DW TV accused the re-elected U.S. president of threatening democracy.
“From banning reporters from the Oval Office to trying to dismantle VOA, Trump’s moves against the press have sparked legal battles, with experts warning that press freedom — and US democracy itself — is threatened,” the German broadcaster warned.
The German TV channel also claimed that Trump administration’s efforts to put an end to the conflict in Ukraine had ‘strained’ America’s relationship with Germany and other Western allies. “Despite promises to end the war in Ukraine, the conflict continues, and Trump’s approach has strained relations with allies,” DW TV added.
France’s state-owned France24 TV channel lamented President Trump’s crackdown on woke, DEI, and globalist agendas.
“In the 100 days since US President Donald Trump returned to the White House, a wave of digital erasures has swept across US government websites,” the French broadcaster wrote. “Environmental policies have been rolled back, entire government departments and bureaus dismantled, and decades-long diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives were abruptly ended.”
100 DAYS OF MAKING AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! LFG!!! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/E44FwWLSnw
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 29, 2025
British weekly The Economist claimed that “100 days of Trump” have caused a feeling of “growing dismay in Europe.”
The left-wing UK daily Guardian also made bleak predictions about the fate of U.S. democracy. While ignoring the erosion of free speech and the surge of Islamism at home, the newspaper likened the democratically elected U.S. president to tyrants.
“In three months Trump has shoved the world’s oldest continuous democracy towards authoritarianism at a pace that tyrants overseas would envy,” the Guardian claimed.
.@POTUS has been able to do far more for the American people in the first 100 days than the Biden Administration did in four years.
Thanks to the Trump White House, AMERICA IS BACK—and we’re just getting started! 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/LkwtQ1Htjv
— Speaker Mike Johnson (@SpeakerJohnson) April 29, 2025
According to the BBC, Trump was deploying a “shock-and-awe approach” in his second presidency. “Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been an unprecedented display of unilateral power exercised by a modern American president,” the broadcaster wrote.
The British broadcaster also lamented the demise of DEI triggered by his re-election. The Trump administration has waged an attack on “inclusivity programmes that have proliferated in recent years across the US government and corporate world.”
The broadcaster appeared just as saddened by the deportation of Hamas-sympathizing foreigners from U.S. campuses. “A majority of the US public still backs the crackdown, but it has had a chilling effect on communities of foreign students who have found themselves caught up in the blitz,” BBC claimed. “Some, including permanent residents, have been detained and face deportation because of their role in pro-Palestinian campus protests.”
The German weekly newspaper Die Zeit marked Trump’s 100 days with the headline, “100 Days of Trump: Democracy Dies in Broad Daylight.”
Germany’s state-run TV channel Das Erste summed up Trump’s 100 days in three words: “Fear, Chao and Confusion.”
The German state TV featured a terrified German immigrant from New York, who wanted to return to her migrant-swarmed Fatherland as she feared Trump unleashing more of his America First policies. “Where politics operates on fear and emotions, the place for trust, diversity and an open society shrivel,” Das Erste added.
European Union elites are equally in shock and dismay over the U.S. president’s first 100 days. The CNBC reported EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas comments:
“It’s unlike anything else we’ve seen before from the U.S. administration,” European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told CNBC’s “Europe Early Edition” when asked what Trump’s first 100 days have meant for the bloc so far.
Kallas told CNBC’s Silvia Amaro it had been a “very intense” and “disruptive” time, adding that there was “a lot of unpredictability.”
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Yay! We’re pissing off the right people!
Back in 2016, the day after election day a co-worker asked me why I voted for Trump. I told her ‘he makes all the right heads explode.’ Nice to see he’s still got it.
Europe is uneasy?
oh no
Someone on X complained about liberals demanding “normalcy” from the Trump administration.
My response was:
They’ve been telling us for years that Trump is unhinged, now they’re demanding “normal” from him? No. We voted for abnormal. We demand it!
Is Trump dangerous? By God, I hope so. It’s one of the reasons I voted for him.
Trump’s enemies don’t seem to understand that Americans have a right to elect to public office persons considered “dangerous.”
And the majority of Americans disapprove of Trump’s policies, especially his economic ones. I don’t think it is a good idea for Trump to be pissing off the American working class.
“I don’t think it is a good idea for Trump to be pissing off the American working class.”
You could have stopped with “I don’t think” and it would have marginally improved this wet fart of a comment.
Like you really give a FK! Anything you say is tantamount to doing whatever you don’t like.
Bless your heart.
“The majority of Americans” is not what you believe it to be. The Silent Majority is tired of being silent & made their voices heard with Trump’s win of the Popular Vote. Americans got the president they voted into office.
Ooh, the EU press are angered! ZFG.
ZFG?
https://www.fastslang.com/zfg
The more corrupt globalist a-holes are pissed off and dismayed, the more I like it.
Europe’s the enemy now, too?
ATTABOY
Harve!!
What a complete s…show.
But hey.
I tollllllllld ya!
Are the EU Nations our friends? If so why have they been using protectionist trade policies for.decades to hurt US workers? Are they really allies worth having if they can’t meet a basic level of defense spending and military readiness?
And you don’t say it, but point out the major problem in tjv’s (and all progressives’) mentality:
These people might be allies but they aren’t our friends in the sense of they will always consider our well-being and they desire us to always succeed.
Allies are there because certain things are worth working together. You can still work against each other in other policy areas. The idea of nations being “friends” is very much a progressive concept, and part of the reason Foggy Bottom is nearly universally loathed. Also a main reason “America First” is so hated by the anti-Trumpers.
Countries don’t have friends. They have interests.
‘Are we not friends? If I thought you weren’t my friend I just don’t think I could bear it’
From the Movie Tombstone as Doc Holiday then stabs the man who decided to be belligerent and insult him instead of choosing to remain on friendly terms.
We don’t have to or even need to go to war with Nations who choose belligerence and intransigence over friendly relations and fair trade practices but we sure as hell don’t have to grant them access to our consumer or capital markets nor continue to secure their shipping routes or act as a military deterrent to their potential adversaries. Those should absolutely be reserved for ‘friendly’ Nations who don’t seek to harm US workers via protectionist trade policies.
Yes, that’s the shorter version. 🙂
their tariffs are inconsequential.Next?
Nah. Some are quite substantial…but lets say they were all at ZERO. That sounds great….but it doesn’t tell us if they have import bans or import quota restrictions.
If a Nation has set a ZERO rate tariff of say US Beef but simultaneously imposes a ban in US Beef being imported then the tariff rate really doesn’t matter b/c there’s no Beef being imported to apply that ZERO rate tariff against.
There’s plenty of protectionist polices deployed to harm US workers, tariffs are only part of the story. Either you already knew this and are being disingenuous or you were ignorant. Now you know.
here is a brilliant analysis by somebody who , unlike Trump,
actually knows what he’s talking about.
I suggest if you want to get up to my speed on tariffs, you read them.
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/trade-winds-2025seriously-and-literally
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/tired-of-winning-apparently
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/real-world-trade-deficit-math-magic
https://graboyes.substack.com/p/the-gulf-of-trump
You keep focusing on but one of a wide array of protectionist measures; tariffs. It isn’t that hard to grasp. The RATE of the tariff pales in comparison to an import RESTRICTION or BAN. Where a BAN on importation a particular product exists the published rate of tariff is immaterial b/c whether the RATE is Zero or 100% won’t matter as the BAN prevents the importation of the product.
Tariffs, import Bans, import quota restrictions, direct subsidies to domestic producers, indirect subsidies to domestic producers, special favorable tax treatment of domestic producers ..are but some of the many different forms protectionist polices may take.
All of these harm US workers. Our ‘friends’ shouldn’t seek to harm our Citizens. The next phase of realignment is going to be limiting our military alliances to Nations who also seek friendly economic alliance….and a major component of friendship will be removing protectionist polices that harm US Citizens.
Change is no longer on the horizon it is here, far better to make peace with it and seek to be an economic and military ally of the USA. Those Nations who act as if this isn’t happening b/c they are wedded to the old paradigm will be left behind.
I vote he’s ignorant.
Next, you are inconsequential.
But did you tell anyone about Biden or the other hoaxes? Yet you expect anyone to listen to you? Delusional. And so angry, no matter how you try to mask it. Trump is cleaning up the feces your cult left behind.
what hoaxes?
Not interested to feed your derangement, as you well know the answers. That you ask evidences your fraudulence, and is par for the course for your cult and the pretenders that make up its members.
ICUMI: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/100-days-of-hoaxes-cutting-through-the-fake-news/
Enjoy.
Let us have a discussion of why Europe went nuts after we saved their asses in 1944.
I don’t typically speak Leftese, but in this instance…fuck off, EU.
You need us more than we need you.
Don’t cry for America to save you when Islam overruns you.
Today, they’re “allies” only in the sense that they expect us to defend their countries and their interests on their own continent, within which, that after thousands of years of occupation, they have still not figured out how to live in peace with each other.
The fact they’re trying to drag us into WW III is enough reason to leave them to their own devices. I served in NATO, but decades ago determined that our presence there was not only unnecessary but dangerous to our own security.
If you think Europe is worth defending, by all means go their and join the Polish army. You’ll have a front-row seat to what national defense in a shooting war actually looks like if Europe’s current leaders get their way. A desire, BTW, that they’ll find a lot less attractive to them if they know they will not have our assistance.
Tjv1156 — Proof yet again that Democrats are the party of the criminally insane.
Always has been the enemy. We’ve had to repeatedly hammer it home to Europe that we do things our way and we don’t care what Europe has to say about it. That’s why this country was founded.
Bot alert.
The European Left is the first source I would check on this democracy thing! Germany, with its former Emperor, not to mention the Fuhrer, has a lot to say about democracy, I’m sure! What about France, with its centuries of Kings, and revolution that basically consisted of cutting off everyone’s head, until stopped by a Corsican who became the new emperor – and, oh, should we mention the Vichy government? Poor England gives itself so much credit for the Magna Carta in 1215, but is today a be place where you can be arrested for posts on social media, and where the native population is being replaced by remnants of the Empire: Sad. I think we’ll keep our own understanding of a democratic republic, as enshrined in our written Constitution.
Their salty tears taste delicious. I yearn for more!
America FIRST!
What is this so hard for Europeans to comprehend?
They prefer it be America putting Europe first.
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.”
They’re in a panic because they’ve just run out of ours.
No legitimate country has ever been created with the purpose of putting the welfare of other countries’ citizens ahead of the welfare of its own citizens.
Boo hoo. Get over it, EU.
Obnoxious and sanctimonious European leftists and leftist media organs should focus less energy on dishonestly criticizing #47, and, focus more on examining how leftist energy, immigration and national security policies have inflicted massive and predictable damage throughout Europe.
They’re ideologically (that is, their religion, Progressivism) blinded to even the idea of solving these issues. Because they shouldn’t be issues in the first place – Progressivism says so!
“European Media Angered and Dismayed”
Like the U.S. and Canadian media.
“If you want to make people upset, try changing something.”
They’re angry because who’s gonna pay for all their social programs and the military they’re supposed to be building. They got like one tank amongst three countries.
Of course they are angry. The sugar daddy has required them to diet and now they are confronted by their poor choices.
The American people elected Trump in order to serve the United States and its interests. They did not elect him to serve Europe’s interests or, at least, to put the interests of Europe ahead of those of the United States.
we dont care what the communazis think
but what they want to continue to do to america is worrisome
maga
Screw ‘em.
At least half of America doesn’t care that our own MSM thinks let alone what annoys European media. Western Europe has surrendered to Islam, and jails anyone who speaks the truth about Muslim violence. At least in America, in most states, one can bear arms for protection against the criminal hordes from the the Third World. In Europe you have no choice but to passively submit, or European governments will punish you.
Western Europe is dying. Their economies are shrinking, and populists have been outlawed. Go away Europe. Stay out of America.
They’re upset because the stupid people of the USA have finally wised up to the fact that we are paying for their defense so they can have socialism without the cost of national defense. Their absurd aim for net zero with climate change has made them the laughing stock of the world. The days of Europe being the wise person in the room are over. They have proven what liberal ideologues they have become, and they are headed for destruction.
The Nations with protectionist trade policies and the globalist grifters here at home are both whining loudly at the possibility their grifting gravy train may end. No more easy lay ups now they gonna have to compete by shooting 3 pointers….and remembering how to play defense.
You are spot on about the internal damage. They have vastly under invested in defense and haven’t had true competition in their domestic markets. They gonna have to remove the socialist pablum, reorient that spending to Defense and figure out how to compete in an actual free market with US products.
Meet your NATO defense spending treaty obligations, or you can throw your free healthcare at the Russians. I am good either way.
We should make a list of the complainers and never ever allow them to emigrate to our country after Islam completely takes their countries over in the next 10 years or so.
High praise from Europe for President Trump!
Here the BBC has it right:
“According to the BBC, Trump was deploying a “shock-and-awe approach” in his second presidency. “Donald Trump’s first 100 days have been an unprecedented display of unilateral power exercised by a modern American president,” the broadcaster wrote.”
Yes it is like the good old days of strong American presidents, not the Recucklicans and Democraps that we’ve had in the past 50 years.
As to environmental policies being rolled back, Spain and Portugal should be exclaiming, “We are screwed. What took America so long to lead the way.” Germany also looks to be an energy basket case.
“That horrible Trump is doing what he was elected to do! Unheard of! Quelle domage!”
Good on Trump!
“European Media Angered and Dismayed at President Trump’s First 100 Days”
I see this as a feature, not a bug.
ask Poland.
I bet the answer is different.
So, the EU’s state owned media think Trump is being ‘authoritarian’ in his fight to keep the media from being a party mouthpiece.
How expected.
European’s apparently grasp the obvious. It’s a national and international embarassment that this bloated buffoon is President.
This is a cretin who has a criminal resume that would preclude him from getting hired almost anywhere. Yet here we are. Why? Hint”
“There were some very fine people at Charlottesville”
“Immigrants are poisoning our blood”
” Haitians are eating pets’
You look stupid.
You left out the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
MORONISM of the day,
“Maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” Trump said Wednesday. “And maybe the two dolls will cost a couple bucks more than they would normally.”- Assaulter of women and felon
You can’t make this stuff up.
LAFFRIOT