Kathy Sheridan: Don't blame all Americans for Donald Trump

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : [ The inside story of how Conor McGregor secured his meeting with Donald Trump in the Oval OfficeOpens in new window ] For many, the cartoonish ignorance underlying White House policy and conduct is reminiscent of the Brexit wars which began the same year as Trump's first election in 2016.
52% : And half of us are furious enough to support self-harming retaliatory tariffs on US goods, according to a Sunday Independent/Ireland Thinks poll.
48% : The "correct" answer was Trump, because his reign would be temporary.
41% : A pre-tariff-wars YouGov poll of seven EU countries in early March already showed a steep slump in sentiment towards the US, with only a fifth of Danes feeling positive about it, 29 per cent of Swedes, and Germans, French and British all between 32 and 37 per cent.
33% : Nearly eight out of 10 believe that Donald Trump disrespected Ireland by inviting Conor McGregor to the White House on St Patrick's Day, demonstrating that disdain for this America is also about breaches of fundamental decency implicitly supported by half the US electorate and Maga-infected kin far across the world.
26% : A fun question posed in 2016 - when both Brexit and Trump seemed unlikely contenders - was which would you choose if you had to: Brexit or Trump?

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