Reinout Oerlemans responded to the Eva Jinek talk show table nuanced to the policy of US President Donald Trump. He thinks Europe is too emotionally in it.
The 53-year-old Reinout Oerlemans has become rich thanks to Dutch television, then left for Los Angeles with his entire family and their assets have already exploded through a lucrative real estate deal. Yesterday the MediaAmonair was back in the Netherlands and he decided to join the talk show from Eva Jinek.
Big brother
Eva is curious what the Reinout now lives in America thinks of the return of Donald Trump as president. “The realization that here in Europe, in the Netherlands, it is starting to fall in is that America is no longer the big brother we can count on,” she explains.
“That that war in our backyard really has to solve yourself and that a lot of certainties there were, also that transatlantic bond with America, is a bit gone. Do you understand that there is fear and the feeling of loss we have here? ”
Intensity
Reinout scares how people now respond to America in Europe. “I have been in the Netherlands for a few days now and the intensity with which America is talking is really a startling for me, I will say. It lives here on the surface. “
“I am not here as a honorary consul, but just as a private person who has been living there for ten years: what you should not do is watch America with a Dutch lens, because then it goes completely wrong. I see that very much now. There is a huge indignation and that is not good, because then that relationship will only get worse. “
Tiran Trump
According to Reinout, we do not understand in the Netherlands that Trump suddenly has so much power, because we are a coalition country. “About Trump is often thought here: what a strange and he does what and a tyrant and I know a lot. No, he carries out what he has campaigned and on which 75 million people have given a preferred voice. ”
“He is performing what he was chosen for. As I notice if I live there, Europe may not be a theme that lives enormously within America. I say it carefully. It is not a fact or something, but my impression when I talk to people. What is a much larger theme is the border with Mexico, where 1.5 to 2 million people come over each year. ”
Major maintenance
Most Americans are not awake from the band with Europe, says Reinout. “Mexico is a topic that really lives enormously. Europe, Ukraine, it is of course terrible what is happening, but they think: Trump actually wants to carry out the major maintenance of America as first, because he was chosen. ”
Is he doing well? “Yes … well, it is dangerous to say, but he does what he was chosen and he has that mandate too. You can only see with sparking that the first day he is in the Oval Office Was, he signed so many decrees and started immediately. “
‘Don’t take it literally’
What does Reinout think when Trump calls the Ukrainian President Zensky a dictator? “I understand that you literally take a lot of things what Trump says, from:” He lies and it’s all nonsense what he says, “but (…) America is a megaland, a continent, where it is much harder to get your message over the spotlight.”
“Maybe you shouldn’t all take it all that literally. If you look at Ukraine: that is not an EU country or that is within NATO, and Trump pays 3 billion in national debt in America a day. In America, much more is the realization of: guys, what are we doing there while we have such huge problems here? “
Taxpayer
Reinout points to the American taxpayer. “We don’t have to forget – and I want to say anything about that, Eva – is that we do quite well: America is a big brother and so we have entered the world for 80 years to preach democracy, but on the other hand all that money has to be raised by the US Staatburger.”
“I also learned one thing in America: You pay taxes and then you die, don’t fuck with the irsApril 15 you have to hand in your thing and people work very hard for that. And all that money to bring stability into the world must be raised and we know that America’s fault is only rising. That way you can look at it. “
“I actually preach a little nuance, no matter how difficult that is, because it happens in Ukraine and close to us.”