Anti-American sentiment rises in Europe as Trump fuels anger | There’s currently no country in Europe where more than half of the population has a positive attitude toward the US

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>Facebook groups urging the boycott of US goods have sprung up and amassed thousands of followers. One such Danish group, Boykot varer fra USA (Boycott products from USA) has drawn more than 92,000 members since it was created Feb. 3.

>“I got more and more upset with his ways of declaring what is right and what is wrong,” Bo Albertus, one of the administrators of the group, said in an interview. “I began to feel like I need to do something.”

>Albertus, a Danish school principal, said he canceled all his streaming services in favor of European or Danish ones and no longer eats at American fast-food chains.

>“I thought the best way is to stop putting money in their pockets,” Albertus said. Almost every second Dane has deliberately refrained from buying an American product since Trump’s inauguration, a survey from Megafon for Danish broadcaster TV 2 shows.

>A similar Swedish group, Bojkotta varor från USA, has grown just as fast.

>“I was just angry, I didn’t know what to do,” said Jannike Kohinoor, a Swedish teacher and one of the creators of the group. Following Trump’s insinuations that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was to blame for the war, “our brains were just exploding,” she said. “Starting the group gave us an opportunity to do something.”

>Some 70% of Swedes have or are considering refraining from buying American products as a form of political protest, according to a survey from Verian conducted for Swedish state broadcaster SVT. One in 10 have boycotted US goods completely within the past month, while 19% have only stopped buying certain goods.

Some people on here have acted like these boycotts from non-Americans are stupid, but let me tell you, I’ve arrived at a point where I can’t go into the supermarket and knowingly buy something American, or that I know is American owned without cringing slightly.

On top of that, at least food wise, avoiding American products is easy.

Tech will be harder. I like IPhones, and my 13 is really starting to age now, but I haven’t decided yet on wether or not I want to buy an IPhone again or switch back to Samsung or another non-American android phone. I don’t know, Nothing phones seem pretty cool.

We saw this back in 2017. IIRC the only two countries in the world that had a better view of the US under Trump rather than Obama were Russia and Israel.

r/europe had large amount of cheering for the 4 dead US soldiers that were killed in Lithuania last week.