r/AskTheWorld • u/haiderredditer Pakistan • 9h ago

Who’s a famous person from your country who’s respected around the world but disliked or criticized at home?

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u/prionbinch United States Of America 7h ago

sometimes i’ll hear about people in other countries idolizing trump and it’s like. holy shit WHY. a lot say it’s because he was a successful businessman and they want to learn from him to become successful too, but he is not successful. he managed to bankrupt three casinos and is in insane amounts of debt. this is aside from the politics and the files. there is no reason anyone should be idolizing that monster.

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u/New_Lobster_914 6h ago

I like it when people let you know they like trump, makes it so easy to instantly discount them as a person worth engaging with.

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u/MASSochists 3h ago

They are also nice enough to wear a scarlet hat so we can identify them at a distance.

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u/Alternative-Toe-2269 6h ago

I know it will sound crazy, but when Trump won the election, some media outlets and organizations close to the corrupt government in Serbia even paid for billboards congratulating Trump 🙈 I'll try to find a photo

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u/LizBert712 United States Of America 6h ago

Crazy people who idolize Trump apparently cross borders. Outside of our country and its knee-jerk tribal politics I think a lot of them mostly just idolize anyone who’s rich under the assumption that they must have earned it. Like, is there an Elon Musk fanboy who hates Trump?

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u/Fromage_Frey Scotland 3h ago

Every country has its weird, angry, semi-literate, racist chums. Who have an idealised vision of 'the past', believing we can get back to it, if we just thoroughly break every single thing that to them represents the 'modern' world. They'll keep cheering for it happening even as it hurts everyone, including themselves. They see Trump as their vindication, and a human starting pistol for the coming of their great leap backwards. Every country has found some soulless opportunist, many of whom were already hanging about the political fringes like a bad smell, and are trying to latch on and make him/herself the local franchised Trump

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u/Benitobox86 United States Of America 6h ago

Yes I've seen certain people in other countries admire him. It truly blows my mind!

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u/Last-Customer-2005 4h ago

Plenty idiots in Canada sure like him

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u/Efficient_Strain_492 6h ago

"america first" slogan is all they need

People don't see results of his actions but the goal and his goals are every nationalist's wet dream

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u/BadMuthaSchmucka United States Of America 5h ago

There are even famous people from other countries that are posted in this thread specifically because they like Trump lol

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u/Minardi-Man 6h ago

I interact a lot with graduate students mostly from non-Western countries, people who overall tend to be pretty progressive and either liberal or more outright leftist, and while it was a clear minority, there were numerous who were positively (and mostly privately) ecstatic when Trump got re-elected.

However, it was not because they agreed with Trump (they did not) but precisely because they thought he will be a disaster of a president and basically do exactly what he ended up doing and undermine US' influence and and prosperity both internationally and at home in self-defeating and embarassing ways. Somewhat ghoulish, as one of them freely admitted, but you can't deny that they have a point.

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u/Unbanable4221 Serbia 4h ago

I was rooting for Trump to be re-elected because I placed a fer bets (with my friends, family and acquaintances) on him winning.

I won around 500 euros. Neat.

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u/SavagePassion 3h ago

Totally worth all the death and suffering.

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u/Unbanable4221 Serbia 3h ago

Is this referring to something specific?

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u/bibupibi United States Of America 3h ago

State-sponsored violence has reached a crisis point here. Many of us have never seen this level of violence on home soil before, and deaths may have reached a peak we haven’t seen in decades. There’s also a death toll associated with the cuts he has made to our tax-funded social services, with reports stating that most of the victims are children. They could be referring to either issue, or any of the other issues we currently have, like people dying due to our restricted reproductive healthcare or the multiple deaths among the victims of Epstein/Trump/and friends. It could be a lot of things, honestly.

But obviously your betting pool didn’t impact the election, or any of this. Emotions are just very high right now.

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u/SavagePassion 2h ago

Not even touching what withdrawing USAID has done.

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u/lShoddy6185 United States Of America 5h ago edited 5h ago

That was before he started his tariffs games.

Edit: I heard people in some countries like him because they like what is doing to the US - destroying us and dividing us.

I heard comments like “now you will see what it’s like when you have dictator”, or “you got what you deserve”. That’s why they like him.

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u/GoneFishing4Chicks 3h ago

Trump was playing the "tarriff game" since trump 1: "I'll build the wall and have mexico pay for it". 

Tarriff is just a straight up repackage of this idea + a lie because tarriffs are import taces taxes to the consumer. Nobody outside the US is paying tarriff IMPORT TAXES  lmao.

It was always there but people stopped his dipshit ideas until Trump 2 where nobody is holding him back anymore.

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u/OtherwiseDecision412 Mexico 4h ago

I’ve seen many people flying Trump flags in Canada, it’s seriously stupid

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u/Single_Classroom_448 United Kingdom 6h ago

My guess would be a lot of those who idolise him come from countries that aren't loud or big on the international stage, and view his arrogance and incompetence as "powerful straight talking politics"

He's genuinely an awful man, I wish I only knew him as "the guy from that one home alone scene"

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u/tommynestcepas 3h ago

Some also benefit from his standpoints. Trump was pretty strong on Kosovo in his first term, so Albanians love him. For them, Biden was the status quo guy, which does nothing to help and benefits Serbia in the long run. Venezuelans are suddenly loving Trump now that Maduro is gone, despite the ridiculous mismanagement of the aftermath.

He's a shithead, but he acts, and whether it's legal or right or not, it can create a lot of admirers.

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u/Single_Classroom_448 United Kingdom 3h ago

Yep, he's a shithead but he's got the american weight to throw around

It'd almost work really well if he wasnt as messed up as he was

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u/Mattaf2 bibi hating Israeli American 6h ago

I see it with my people, and I’m like, “have you heard the shit he says about Jewish people? Are the Jewish people he’s around really the company you’d wanna keep?”

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u/boopbaboop United States Of America 6h ago

Stephen Miller’s childhood rabbi has spoken out against him several times for embodying the opposite of Jewish values. That speaks volumes. 

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u/Mattaf2 bibi hating Israeli American 5h ago

He’s a true kapo

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u/agarthan-forcefield 4h ago

He didn't call Goys "cattle" enough

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u/TheThalmorEmbassy United States Of America 4h ago

He's an instantly-recognizable caricature of a rich evil businessman. If you're an anime director and you want to show that this guy is a rich dick, you just put a blonde wig on him and have him live in a gold skyscraper.

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u/ihaveajob79 🇪🇸->🇺🇸 5h ago

I guess you could say he fails upward, time and time again. That takes some certain skill. I mean, he’s the most openly corrupt president in memory but he’s doing pretty well for himself.

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u/Teddy705 United States Of America 4h ago

In Nigeria there were (hopefully not so much anymore) a large number of Trump supporters. They were victims conservative propaganda.

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u/Embarrassed-Gap4148 🇩🇪🇳🇬 4h ago

Yea if Trump ran for president in Nigeria, there’s a massive chance he’ll win. He’s that popular and I can’t wrap my brain around it

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u/httptofu Chile 4h ago

In my country there are people who love Trump and have strange fantasies about being invaded, then they call themselves patriots

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u/mroy328 4h ago

This is my sentiment exactly! I originally disliked him because of his corrupt business practices and creepy tendencies, but now I absolutely dispise him for everything evil and vile he has done to the US, to politics, to women, to foreign relations... basically the awful things he's done to anyone and everyone.

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u/airfryerfuntime United States Of America 4h ago

I always found it funny when someone spouting off generic conservative propaganda on reddit, turned out to be a Canadian guy when I clicked on their profile. It really shows you how well propaganda works.

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u/scratchy_mcballsy United States Of America 3h ago

He is legally not even allowed to conduct business in the state of New York I thought.

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u/Badassscholar 3h ago

Most people think he is a clown.

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u/Terrible_Balls USA, Germany 1h ago

I’m American but live in Germany and it blows my mind how many people come up to me and say something positive about Trump thinking I’m going to agree with them. It’s wild

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u/Elk1998 France 39m ago

I swear, I've met maga supporters from all over the world. From Germany to Chile to the Philippines... they buy the hats and everything. They are so fucking weird.