Greetings from Germany

[stollen]

After dinner at a small village restaurant in Bavaria, a German couple approached us, very concerned about Trump. They can't believe, per their American relatives, that our country is still so divided about him when all of NATO and the EU hates his guts.

We said we are hoping things will improve once Trump becomes Pope.

The German couple laughed.

We said our country is showing itself to be a joke, daily. All one can do is laugh.

I know they'll pass that on. We want them to.

[surfered]

1. Thanks for that. We've enjoyed our travels there.

Couldn’t help but notice that stollen is a German dessert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stollen

[Skittles]

3. ooh

I thought that DU name was in honor of Trump's inability to spell the word STOLEN

[surfered]

5. 😁

[Skittles]

2. honestly, if I traveled out of country now

I'd wear a T-SHIRT stating NO I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM

[EmmaLee E]

4. In several languages!

[Skittles]

6. when I was in Sicily

an old gent asked me, rather loudly, YOU ARE FROM WHERE? I said "Stati Uniti".......he said, YOU ARE THIN FOR AMERICAN WOMAN! His wife smacked him on the head.

[stollen]

7. Good idea

No one has asked us that. But in our discussions we do warn not to travel there now. It's not safe.

And that's true. It's not. It's Government by Maniacal Whimsy.

If a German were to go to the US, it would likely be Florida. I do want that state to financially come to its knees.

[thucythucy]

8. My SO and I took a flight to Europe

the morning after election day, 2004, when Bush II defeated John Kerry.

We took a Lufthansa flight, and because my sweetie used a wheelchair we always got into conversations with airline staff.

One of them, obviously German, saw my partner's "Kerry for President" button and came over to tell us how distraught she and her roommate, also German, were about the results. She told us the two actually wept when the results were final.

My experience is that the average German knows more about American politics--and history--than the average American. That's entirely subjective, I know. And I KNOW that the average American knows pretty much zilch about contemporary German politics or culture.

[stollen]

9. Re your last paragraph

Absolutely.

Meanwhile, Germany just had an election here. Who knows much about it? Ditto for Australia and Canada.