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The Trump administration is boosting a powerful force in global affairs: anti-Americanism.

Canadians have taken to booing the American national anthem and Panamanians to burning US flags. The British tabloids have tarred and feathered Vice President JD Vance for insulting British troops. A carnival float in Dusseldorf, Germany, displayed giant puppets of Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, shaking hands while squeezing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy between them into a bloodied pulp. A sign on the float read “Hitler-Stalin Pact 2.0.” Back at home, the Washington Post has published a guide on how to navigate hostility abroad (“dress neutrally, not patriotically”).

There has never been a better time to be anti-American. Trump embodies everything critics of the US have always warned about, multiplied several times over. Yankee arrogance? He and Vance, in the Oval Office, shamelessly bullied the leader of a nation victimized by the Russian president’s aggression. Yankee imperialism? Trump bragged to a cheering Congress that he will take over Greenland “one way or another.” Yankee incompetence? His tariffs are destabilizing global stock markets and downgrading his own economy.

Read the whole thing. And watch Adrian and his fellow columnists explain the global phenomenon:

Musk Has Bigger Problems in the Land ‘Tesla Takedown’ Forgot — David Fickling

Trump’s Dealmaking Is All About Him — Timothy L. O'Brien

‘Forced Joy’ Is a Miserable Corporate Trend — Beth Kowitt

A Shutdown May Be Averted, But at What Cost? —

Beware of Li Ka-shing’s Supersized Value Trap — Mohamed A. El-Erian

The War on Government Statistics Has Quietly Begun — Claudia Sahm

Tariffs Are Bad. Tariff Uncertainty Is Even Worse. — Matthew Yglesias

Columbia Student’s Deportation Arrest Should Scare All Americans — Noah Feldman

Millie Bobby Brown’s Bullies Are an Institutional Problem — Alex Zaragoza

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• Trump says no one has been harder on Russia. But these days no one has been weaker, says Marc Champion. 

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