The year the world laughed at U.S.

"The world is laughing at us." —Donald Trump, a million or so times before he became president (and a few since he started the job)

Actually, the Washington Post stopped counting the times Trump said this at 103, and that was a year before his inauguration. In 2017, he often added a back-end to that remark: "They aren’t laughing anymore."

The fact-checkers never had to dig deep to disprove that Trumpian assertion. The first year of Trump’s presidency seems to have brought more international guffaws, snickers and contemptuous mocking than even the goofiest of Barack Obama mom-jeans moments, George W. Bush malapropisms, Bill Clinton charming sleaziness and Gerald Ford’s trouble with stairs.

The world laughed at Trump in 2017, but it often turned its derision to the country that elected him, as well.

January

Netherlands:[tweet id="815860632524386304" url="https://twitter.com/bvdschot/status/815860632524386304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Italy:[tweet id="822767467294576640" url="https://twitter.com/AntiquaTours/status/822767467294576640?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Scotland:

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February

Sweden:[tweet id="827791829357699073" url="https://twitter.com/ThisQueensPark/status/827791829357699073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Canada:[tweet id="830868160630886400" url="https://twitter.com/edmontonjournal/status/830868160630886400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Sweden: (again, former PM)
[tweet id="833219648044855296" url="https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/833219648044855296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

March

Belgium: (Trump’s baseless claim Obama wiretapped Trump Tower)
[tweet id="838694816582144000" url="https://twitter.com/Klier_cartoons/status/838694816582144000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

April

Germany:Kenya:[tweet id="860345315496472580" url="https://twitter.com/iGaddo/status/860345315496472580?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

May

Norway: (the Prime Minister)

Spain:[tweet id="860396606578995200" url="https://twitter.com/TapasMagazine/status/860396606578995200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

June

France: "Make our planet great again"

Mexico: "Mexico will not pay for that f--ken wall"

Russia: Putin offers asylum to former FBI director James Comey

Australia:[tweet id="875333956023046144" url="https://twitter.com/keithboykin/status/875333956023046144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

July

France: (A pariah in Paris)
[tweet id="885580408326410240" url="https://twitter.com/libe/status/885580408326410240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

August

Britain:[tweet id="898129991799631872" url="https://twitter.com/TheEconomist/status/898129991799631872?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Germany:[tweet id="900398749788319746" url="https://twitter.com/PhilipinDC/status/900398749788319746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Colombia: ("Climate change is a Chinese hoax")
[tweet id="903392210577752068" url="https://twitter.com/VLADDO/status/903392210577752068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

September

Cuba:

United Nations:[tweet id="910159336864976902" url="https://twitter.com/JordanUhl/status/910159336864976902?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

October

Venezeula:[tweet id="915708465716195328" url="https://twitter.com/NewsHour/status/915708465716195328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

November

New Zealand:[tweet id="931253121283747840" url="https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/931253121283747840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Britain: (Conservative communications director)
[tweet id="936037965037436929" url="https://twitter.com/carriesymonds/status/936037965037436929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]

December

Costa Rica:[tweet id="938839329887150082" url="https://twitter.com/cartoonarcadio/status/938839329887150082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]Jordan:[tweet id="940146258727104512" url="https://twitter.com/EmadHajjaj/status/940146258727104512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"]