One of the most inhibiting accusations thrown at those who criticize the Trump administration’s positions is that of being anti-American. Convinced Euro-Atlanticists have overnight become anti-American, possibly because they would no longer receive funds through USAID, regardless of whether they ever did, but the truth has become a detail devoid of importance.
Do you not agree that Trump humiliates Ukraine? You are anti-American. Do you not agree that Trump attacks the US justice system? You are anti-American. Do you not agree that Trump has become Putin’s useful idiot? You are anti-American.
Do you not agree that Trump is blowing up the entire alliance system on which world peace has been based since 1945? You are, of course, anti-American. Are you pro-European, assuming the status of an EU citizen and defending European values? You are clearly anti-American.
Overall, if you do not bow down to any belch from the White House and do not blindly accept any nonsense, no matter how absurdly argued, no matter how full of inaccuracies, even lies, you are anti-American.
False! America does not mean Trump. The current administration is a moment in US history, I would even say a regrettable accident, the result of a collective neurotic episode.
The true greatness of the USA, not the caricatured MAGA inflation, primarily meant a set of values from which Americans have never truly deviated.
Well, the main action of the current administration is the destruction of this set of values that have made the USA the flagship country of the free world.
Trump destroys freedom of speech in the name of which he was elected. There are Westerners who have been denied entry into the USA because they had critical positions towards Trump. DOGE is the chainsaw that eliminates the inconvenient. Emblematic, but non-MAGA press institutions have been kicked out of the White House.
Trump attacks the American justice system that invalidates some of his actions. His argument is one of force - I'm doing what the Americans asked me to do. Americans have never asked him to annul justice or break the law.
Trump trades alliances and loyalties as if they were real estate properties for sale and puts the world at Putin's feet. He is practically about to give up the US victory in the Cold War and embark on a much more dramatic retreat than the one from Afghanistan.
Trump destroys the American state's expertise in both security and diplomacy, believing that the sophisticated approach of the Chinese can be fooled by primitive techniques borrowed from the mafia-like business dealings on which he built his empire.
Trump questions borders and wants to annex foreign countries and territories, such as Greenland and even Canada. He takes advantage of Ukraine's weakness to feast on its minerals and snatch its nuclear power plants.
Trump is on the verge of withdrawing the decision to eliminate visas for Romanians. Some say it's due to canceled elections and a democracy deficit.
It is remarkable that the author of the most traumatizing moment in recent US history, the assault on the Capitol, the only president who refused an organized and calm transition of power after losing the elections, is giving democracy lessons.
But if it is a punishment for the governors' actions, how do you explain the extremely aggressive messages from the US Embassy towards ordinary Romanians, treated like wild migrants about to storm American borders?
Under the Trump administration, the US is sliding towards the image of a country like a shark, wordless, valueless, isolationist and isolated, the mockery of Russia, a fragile democracy, a rule of law under pressure sliding towards authoritarianism.
To not agree with such things, to want America to be great again does not mean you are anti-American. On the contrary, you can only be pro-American by challenging what destroys the spirit and stature of the USA.
You can only be pro-American by vehemently challenging the biggest anti-American - Donald Trump himself.