American abroad met with 'pity, empathy and utter confusion' by Trump-hating foreigners

American journalist Shanti Nelson has noticed that foreigners have been treating her differently since President Donald Trump took power for a second time back in January.

Writing for the Guardian, Nelson reveals that she's been met with "pity, empathy and utter confusion" by people she's encountered who are watching in horror as Trump alienates allies and wages economic warfare against America's biggest trading partners.

"From taxi drivers to baristas, commuters in the tube or customers at Costa, strangers expressed their condolences, as if the US has entered hospice care – slowly losing its faculties, its freedom, its rights, and its voice," she observes.

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She then describes a conversation that she had with an Uber driver in London who said that "America seems so angry" with "all the guns, the mass shootings, and now Trump and his henchmen" running the show.

"How is everyone coping?” the Uber driver asked her.

The driver also revealed that he and his family fled war-torn Kosovo in the late '90s and he suggested that there were similarities between what happened in that country back then and what's going on in the United States today.

"The seed has been planted in your country and so, we are afraid for you," he said.

Read the full column here.