🇺🇸🇪🇺 Americans often ask me why so many Europeans seem to “hate America.” And every time, I give the same answer. We don’t. Not even close. Europeans actually love the real America, the one built on curiosity, creativity, humour, openness, and that effortless friendliness you meet the moment you land in Boston or San Diego. That America has a permanent fan club on this side of the Atlantic. What Europeans push back against is something entirely different. MAGA is not America. MAGA is a political product engineered by billionaires who tell ordinary people they can become just like them, if only they get angry at the right enemies. It is a movement built on fear instead of confidence, outrage instead of optimism, and nostalgia instead of progress. Europeans react to it not because they dislike Americans, but because they recognise the pattern. We have seen versions of this before. It never ends well. And here’s the thing. Most MAGA supporters aren’t bad people. Many are simply caught in a machine designed to keep them frustrated, suspicious, and loyal. They are told the world is against them, that experts lie, that allies cheat, that democracy is rigged unless their guy wins. When Europeans criticise MAGA, it is not an attack on those people. It is frustration at the billionaires and political operatives who deliberately mislead them. So no, Europe does not hate America. We admire the America that still leads in science, technology, film, music, human rights, and cultural energy. But we will always call out the forces that try to shrink that America into something smaller, angrier, and less free. Because in the end, we want the best version of America to win. And honestly, so do most Americans.