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anti-American

[ an-tee-uh-mer-i-kuhn, an-tahy- ]

adjective

  1. opposed or hostile to the United States of America, its people, its principles, or its policies.


noun

  1. an anti-American person.

anti-American

adjective

  1. opposed to anything of or relating to the United States of America
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of anti-American1

1765–75, Americanism, in sense “anticolonial”; anti- + American
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In a 2024 campaign video, Trump declared that "We are going to get this anti-American insanity out of our institutions once and for all. We are going to have real education in America."

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Another provision of the decree appears to take action to restore monuments to Confederate leaders on federal land under the auspices of rejecting “anti-American ideology.”

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The order directs the vice-president to "eliminate improper, divisive, or anti-American ideology" from the institute's museums, centres and the National Zoo in Washington.

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Trump, during an October 2023 campaign stop in Iowa, pledged to "revoke the student visas of radical, anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners at our colleges and universities" and "send them straight back home."

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United Nations aid agencies have been sent questionnaires by the US asking them to state if they have "anti-American" beliefs or affiliations.

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