Yes, booing the U.S. national anthem is disrespectful to Americans—but you know what’s worse? The U.S. president repeatedly and publicly telling the world that Canada has no right to exist and should be part of the U.S.🇺🇸🇨🇦
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The Dictator In Chief is doing everything possible to earn the disrespect of the free world. I don't blame them a bit for booing. He has brought the shame on our country.
You know what's even worse than anything else having an unelected white boy run this country to an apartheid state. But all you white people are OK with it right, White power . Hate civil rights.
Just like ancestors.
There are only a minority of the pos Nazi fucks that are about their fictional white power shit. Most of us haye them as much as everyone else. I grew uo punk tock with ounk a Nazi in their fucking face always.
Sounds like MAGA can give but don’t like taking it. Most of the world now thinks the US is deserving of disrespect. If you were an insignificant country that’s one thing, but when the you are the global hegemon it affects everyone.
It's not disrespectful if a big booing and little flag burning is necessary for the health of the nation. That's like saying vaccinating kids is bad because the needle hurts.
In the current circumstances, booing the U.S. national anthem is not disrespectful to American citizens.
It is just an act of resistance against the Trump regime.
I'm 46you Aussie. Back in school, we were taught that Americans only cared about Americans and that most Americans couldn't locate any other nation on a map.
Nothing's changed. Ya got ya guns, pick up trucks, confederate flags. America is now a joke.
I’m from the south—Louisiana to be exact. It’s a fair criticism insofar as any gross generalization is fair. I’m surrounded by guns, trucks, and dumb fucks.
But that’s not all we are.
31% of the country voted for this.
33% sat home.
So, as a country, we’re dumb AND lazy. As Jesus intended.
TJ, when Australia became a nation (1/1/1901) we took parts of the UK Westminster system and parts of the US Washington system, hence the term for the Australian government "Washminister System."
In Australia, you must vote as soon as you turn 18. It is compulsory or get fined over AU$300 bucks.
I question weather it’s even possible anymore. For what it’s worth, I’m sorry. Imagine what it’s like for us who tried to warn everyone for the last decade. Im fucking exhausted.
Exactly. And we are not booing the Americans per say.
We are booing the anthem which is a political representation of a country we once called a friend, an allied. As such, we will continue to boo to remind y'all how low you have come and how urgent it is for you to wake up and act.
Agree. Canadians have every right to protect & protest against this open aggression from 'their friend in the south'. Wouldn't you do the same? It's not people against people, it's people against a person/principal. Canada has always been a good neighbor so this is uncalled for.
As an avid reader of history and American politics it’s horrifying to see the USA rapidly becoming an existential danger to its own people and the rest of the World. Europeans are currently meeting together to plan their future without America. American citizens better wake up quickly.
The political instability in France and Germany and the collapse of their governments, should have Europeans really concerned. The fate of Ukraine is now in their hands. The USA is at war with itself and it is going to be for several years. It is wise Europe is planning a future without America.
Trump made clear his declaration of economic war against Canada, and outlined his desire to rule over another sovereign state. He's actively reneging on treaties he signed. Booing seems restrained and even polite response.
The anthem itself is belligerent: “bombs bursting in air” and the “rockets red glare” - and it’s also a lie, as looking South, I cannot see “the land of the free and the home of the brave…”
BOO!!
This has been an issue since I was a little girl (a long time ago).there were many replacement ideas, including America, the Beautiful, and some other better tunes.
Precisely. Americans who are happy for their President to threaten the very existence of a neighbouring country, but who then complain when people object or their anthem is booed, are beyond pathetic.
These boos are a message to the US president, and the roughly 30% of citizens who voted for him. The fact that honourable Americans are taking it in the face is much like tariffs, which have zero effect on Trump directly, and a huge effect on honourable Americans who are just trying to live.
If people want to boo...let them boo...we are pretty damn insulting to the rest of the world at the best of times....just put your big girl panties on and get over it...The Ugly American was not just the name of a book
How dare tRump repeatedly refer to Justin Trudeau as the “Governor” of “Canada, a State of the great USA” .
What did he expect, that Canadians would applaud his Putin-like proposed land grab?
And a hearty Canadian "FUCK YOU" to all the unseen folks behind the camera chuckling every time he uses the nonsensical phrase "Governor of Canada".
Proudly stand behind your actions, show your faces, give us your names and realize you are now our enemies.
We will not forget, we will not forgive 🇨🇦
America is not currently deserving of any official respect abroad...even while many in other countries know that not ALL Americans are aligned with this.
I don't think it is disrespectful to boo the anthem at all out of protest! I boo it! It now means nothing. It represents tyranny and oppression and an oligarchy. What's not to boo?
I'm sorry but if the USA President is calling Trudeau "Governor" and threatening to take over a sovereign country, booing the USA National Anthem is the LEAST Canadians can do
Promoting far-right parties in Germany and other European countries is disrespectful to Americans. So many American families lost loved ones who died fighting fascists in WW2. Vance spits on their graves.
And america didn’t jump in until the end of 1941 when Japan brought the war to them. 🇨🇦 went to war from the start, 9 days after Germany invaded Poland in 1939. Canadians are polite, not passive.
It’s the only reason we’re doing it! It’s not to disrespect Americans, it’s to disrespect him as he does us, our Prime Minister and our sovereign country.
Rest assured - Canadians don’t dislike Americans. We are one of your closest business partners and allies. Our booing relates strictly to the person currently holding the office of President who thinks it’s funny to disrespect Canada and threaten its sovereignty.
It's not personal and directed at American hockey players. It's playing the anthem of a Hitler country on our soil that has threatened us. They don't get a standing ovation and Canadians don't want to hear it.
I’m glad decent Americans get it. It isn’t about the people, it’s the administration. We can’t remain polite while we’re constantly being threatened. But I think the tyrant is purposely alienating your allies so you don’t have help when you rebel 😔
There was a lot of disrespect from the orange blob that started this n he continues his hate on the whole world. If you can’t take the heat stay out of the kitchen . Maybe if he was a decent human being this wouldn’t happen
Agreed, as heartbreaking as it is. They’ve managed to piss off the nicest country in the world. We’re already a global pariah and it hasn’t even been a month.
A narcissistic sociopath and his diaper wearing sidekick have seized control of the US government and are using the sociopath's 4 year old child as an assassination shield.
Totally agree that this warrants the world's boos. I'm booing us too.
Trump will eventually learn he doesn't rule the world. It will be a hard lesson for him. The loss of ignorance can be as painful as the loss of innocence.
Tantrum Trump’s attacks on us fail, because he doesn’t “get” that we are not alike in key details.
The biggest one is laughing at our military, and withdrawing American “protection” from us. Apart from the colonial settling of Canadian lands (an historical wrong we are in the first stages
(3/?) this administration, if they ever knew it, was Canada’s rescue of an American force 10X its size, in the Tora Bora area during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan.
But the key difference is, we don’t glorify our military exploits. If there is a job to do, we go and do it. Simple.
(4/5)) So when a dishonourable, draft dodging braggart makes fun of us, it fails to impress us.
As for his annexing Canada, and gaslighting that we’ll have lower taxes and better healthcare, we look at the dual crimes against humanity, of bleeding your middle classes to prop up an armed
(4/5) services of aggression, and “healthcare” which costs much more than we spend in taxes for universal HC, which still manages to routinely bankrupt patients, and say we don’t know how we’ll make it without King Donald…but we’re going to try our hardest.
There is no difference between Trump saying Canada should be part of the US and Putin saying Ukraine should be part of Russia. And booing the national anthem is just one the things we are doing to make our voices heard.
Worse, no. That’s most definitely wrong what Trump says and does and I support Canada one hundred percent but as a true American I find it to be very disrespectful.
Turning America into a fascist oligarchy is a threat and thus disrespectful to the rest of the world … so yes American citizens are responsible for the fascist state they created. Booing the U.S. national anthem is hence not disrespectful to Americans. It’s what they deserve …
The Constitution of the United States gives us many rights. One of which is to demonstrate against the government. Another one in the same article allows us to burn the American flag in protest. As far as another country booing our anthem; that is the purview of that country.
The disrespect is the point. Personally I take it as a direct insult to the corrupt, lying and incompetent FOTUS. I not only understand it completely, I support it. Fuck these fascist “leaders” daring to threaten our allies. Most Americans will never support or defend these Nazi sympathizers. Never.
Unfortunately, Trump is now associating everything American with Fascism, and this sentiment is growing exponentially across the pond. The US needs to be more reserved going forward as it is far too forceful on the world stage, which leads to the resentment.
The problem is that the stars and bars is everywhere. Pride in a nation comes from within, it doesn't need to be fully visible and forced upon others. Patriotism is great, but it should be held as a belief, not by the use of symbolism all the time.
As the US rapidly descends into fascism via that unhinged orange idiot, a couch fucker and a wannabe bond villain..the negative connotations will grow.
Fuck that I'm American and I will gladly boo the national anthem the next time I hear it played. And if I was school I refuse to stand for the pledge. The American Reich has taken over our country and I refuse to be part of it.
Outside of the United States, no one gives a f*ck whether it’s the flag or the nation that Americans sing to. Trump talks down to other nations, he represents the USA, so continue dealing with the booing. It’s only going to get louder if Trump continues down the route he’s taking.
Yes, we should not be booing your Anthem, it's not very Canadian of us. Here's hoping that Trump and Musk are on the same plane together and the airport is short staffed when the go to land.
What's worse is that we are abandoning and alienating all of our allies for Putin. We were warned before the election, but ignorance voted for the price of eggs.
You are right. But many who were not ignorant or who did not vote refused to see the big picture when it was drawn before their eyes during the election. And those votes might have been enough to keep Trump out of office. Shameful.
That's pretty much when I knew my country was done. I knew we'd have to pay for electing a Black man to run our country, but I was horribly naive in the consequences I expected.
There were many things Trump did that individually or as a group should have disqualified him. The mere fact he was a convicted felon should have disqualified him. Our safeguards failed us.
🇨🇦 It's very low brow to boo a national anthem, but we're really frustrated and disappointed right now. Also, the boos are most definitely not directed towards anyone who voted for Harris.
Americans are doing pretty well at disrespecting their own country. A bit of Canadian heckling is nothing compared to the disrespect Trump and his goons are showing.
I don't care about the anthem, though I believe that the Canadians were booing at the Felon and his entire MAGA cult, not all Americans since there are plenty of us who rightfully oppose the orange-faced Hitler incarnate.
Canada should take over America and dispose the fuhrer.
Another country or its own citizens for that matter, booing the anthem is not disrespectful. It’s the same a Kapernick kneeling. It’s called freedom of speech. Don’t twist it any other way. It’s disrespectful not to recognize that it exists. Freedom of speech. Let’s try and keep it that way.
1. This sounds exactly like Putin’s opinion of Ukraine & Xi Jinping’s opinion of Taiwan.
2. Remember Colin Kaepernick took a knee in silent protest of White Supremacy (same concept) & he got black balled by the NFL.
3. Racists used protests to say that democrats & liberals “hate America”. Not True
He also has said that Canada has no products that the US needs. America is wasting money if they don't need oil, natural gas, lumber, food products but buy it anyway.
On one hand, Canada has nothing the US needs: on the other hand, there’s a trade deficit in favour of Canada. If you can square those two mutually contradictory viewpoints, you would have to be a cross-eyed, toothless maga moron.
Trump doesn't understand it at all. It's easy to understand when we consider that the largest amount of products exported to the US is oil and gas. Then we export to them 80% of the potash that they need. Also our lumber is a better quality due to climate (the cold makes the lumber better)
Who can blame them? If the shoe was on the other foot, we would
Be doing that and probably worse.
Who picks on their great neighbor and ally like this?
WTF!
To be fair, the people who voted for him disrespected their own country and the çurrent administration is too. Canadians booing doesn't hit my radar of disrespect. I don't blame them
It’s only meant to be disrespectful to those in America who support the king and his band of merry idiots. I’m certainly not taking it personally. Boo away. The US government and the people who allowed them to have that power, deserve it.
It takes an asshat like the Felon at the White House for Canadians to boo the US nation anthem. The Felon seems to thrive on destroying our great relationship. Proud to be Canadian. 🇨🇦🇨🇦 The boos are for the WH Felon and his Cult not the decent law abiding citizens of the USA. 🇺🇸
IMO its hilarious how disreapectful Americans can Be but it isnt a big deal when they do it, but swear to their big GOD If someone disrespects them Back at all, its a massive end of The World thing.
Keep booing. I will no longer stand for the U.S. national anthem or sing it, and I am American. We deserve zero respect at this point because we are now Nazi America.
I understand the booing, I don’t like it only because the players didn’t deserve it even if some of them voted for the felon. But people are tired of the conman. It’s only been 27 days (damn feels a lot longer) more countries are going to be laughing and booing the US. We are no longer united…
The US has been disrespectful and disrespected for a long time… it’s just getting worse now….. history will not be kind about this period of time and the people who represent this country… or what’s left of it…. the demise of what could have been an empire just right in front of our eyes….. sad!!
Actually if the Canadians want to f*** Donald they should take him up on his offer.
Canada would become the largest and richest state in the United States of America and have the power to control at least the House of Representatives throwing a monkey wrench into Donald's dream of world domination
What the hell is wrong with you.
There's no way the Canadians can stand up to the might of the United States military, especially with Donald willing to use tactical nukes.
But by becoming the 51st state that can derail this Administration with no sweat
Canada will never be the 51st state; as far as tactical nukes are concerned, Canada can whip up quite a few dirty bombs from our existing nuclear stockpile. Napoleon and Hitler learned what happens when an invasion is attempted against a huge landmass….
Maybe so but Canucks are weak and the civilian population in the United States are well enough armed to be neutralize any Canadian terrorists that make the scene
The civilian population of the US are more likely to shoot each other than Canadian “terrorists;”
Remember the humiliation of Vietnam and Afghanistan - if the US wants to make it a hat trick, a lot of American boys will be going home in boxes.
We love our American counterparts who are victims of all of this as much as we are. We're not booing you. We're booing your leadership. #canadaisnotforsale #Canadaproud
Our government has earned the boos. WE are trying to fight back, millions and millions and millions of us. We need leadership that will stop pussyfooting around and start mobilizing.
Booing the US national anthem is not the least bit disrespectful to Americans who know those hiding behind it are executing a coup. Booing the national anthem in this case is a sign of solidarity with Americans that believe in the truth and liberty and that all people are created equal.
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Exactly.
Perhaps the US President is even more disrespectful of the US anthem , flag & democracy it stands for than any Canadian booing .
Just like ancestors.
It is just an act of resistance against the Trump regime.
There are generations, multiple, who have never seen it in their lives
Nothing's changed. Ya got ya guns, pick up trucks, confederate flags. America is now a joke.
Superpower? Pffft. Try laughingstock.
But that’s not all we are.
31% of the country voted for this.
33% sat home.
So, as a country, we’re dumb AND lazy. As Jesus intended.
In Australia, you must vote as soon as you turn 18. It is compulsory or get fined over AU$300 bucks.
How does America thank us? By treating our country like shit.
Your next (if there is one) President has their work cut out for them restoring America's pride.
We are booing the anthem which is a political representation of a country we once called a friend, an allied. As such, we will continue to boo to remind y'all how low you have come and how urgent it is for you to wake up and act.
So, yeah, we will boo, again and again and again.
It's not the anthem per se.
So. It's OK, I suppose.
BOO!!
The ultimate precious, whiny snowflakes. ❄
Not a lot of bravery on display, and Canada, according to the “Freedom Index” is quite a bit “freer” than the US:
https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/human-freedom-index-2024
What did he expect, that Canadians would applaud his Putin-like proposed land grab?
Proudly stand behind your actions, show your faces, give us your names and realize you are now our enemies.
We will not forget, we will not forgive 🇨🇦
Maybe Russia…
They will do what Putin does soon and disappear into bunkers…
Trump voters are responsible for everything Trump & Musk does! 🤬
Fun while it lasted, though.
Trump is what the USA voted to represent itself.
https://www.ngrippel.com/ngr-politics.html
Every democracy has an opposition where are the US opposition leaders
A narcissistic sociopath and his diaper wearing sidekick have seized control of the US government and are using the sociopath's 4 year old child as an assassination shield.
Totally agree that this warrants the world's boos. I'm booing us too.
And out him in one his 'rally stages', but no bulletproof glass
With average Canadians. And see how he fairs.
On an unrelated note, I think I'm overdue for brushing up on my archery skills.
🎯
The biggest one is laughing at our military, and withdrawing American “protection” from us. Apart from the colonial settling of Canadian lands (an historical wrong we are in the first stages
(1/?)
Contrarily, Canada answered Washington’s calls for military assistance in every moral conflict in which it has found itself.
(~40K Canadians volunteered to fight for America in Vietnam, jsyk)
Forgotten by
(2/?)
But the key difference is, we don’t glorify our military exploits. If there is a job to do, we go and do it. Simple.
(3/?)
As for his annexing Canada, and gaslighting that we’ll have lower taxes and better healthcare, we look at the dual crimes against humanity, of bleeding your middle classes to prop up an armed
(4/5)
-deplorable
Boo harder.
Thank you.
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THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL.
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I knew there was racism but I had no idea how deep it ran.
Why do they even play anthems athletic events? Leave it for NASCAR.
Kind of an apples to atom bomb difference.
Canada should take over America and dispose the fuhrer.
EUROPE MUST BOYCOTT TRUMPS USA!
2. Remember Colin Kaepernick took a knee in silent protest of White Supremacy (same concept) & he got black balled by the NFL.
3. Racists used protests to say that democrats & liberals “hate America”. Not True
Be doing that and probably worse.
Who picks on their great neighbor and ally like this?
WTF!
Canada would become the largest and richest state in the United States of America and have the power to control at least the House of Representatives throwing a monkey wrench into Donald's dream of world domination
There's no way the Canadians can stand up to the might of the United States military, especially with Donald willing to use tactical nukes.
But by becoming the 51st state that can derail this Administration with no sweat
Remember the humiliation of Vietnam and Afghanistan - if the US wants to make it a hat trick, a lot of American boys will be going home in boxes.
I'm ready to die for my country. Even as a leftist who has never shot a gun before
“Don’t die for your country: make the other son of a bitch die for his.”