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.”
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.
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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