All partisan politics aside, it's tragic that this is how the US is being represented to the world.

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13. I don't know what country you live in or what languages you speak

But here in Europe, I am constantly asked what I think of Trump and the situation back home. I have lived here for thirty years and don't lecture anybody. They ask. They ask a LOT. People here see the statistics, and they know who voted how. What makes an impression on them is a real live American answering their questions in their own languages, and proving to them that the boor(s) they see on TV are not the only side of America out there.

Whether you like it or not, Trump represents one side of America, and everyone here knows it is not the only side. When the cover of STERN shows Obama and Trump and the headline reads "Die Zwei Gesichter Amerikas," that says as clearly as anyone can that they are fully aware that we are not monolothic. When the WDR calls me up to ask me questions on their political shows, I answer their questions. I don't need to lecture anyone, and I leave the self-satisfied know-it-all routine to the few posters here on DU who are most practiced in the art.