Europeans Shocked by the REAL America: "We Have Never Seen Kindness Like This!" (youtube.com)
This is just an example of a trend of SM videos about Europeans (and others) in the US for the first time and being so surprised by how great everything is, from food portions, to quality of groceries and clothing in big box stores.
This seems a bit suspect though, since it aligns with the White House's desires so closely, and it seems exactly the kind of thing intelligence/SM/marketing political skills in the US government could manipulate.
It's not like it's the first time Europeans have been to America. About 14m Europeans visit USA every year.
World Cup only is expected to bring 1.2m international visitors (and we might expect a ton of those to be Latinos and Asians).
Europeans visiting USA decreased in 2026, 7% lower than 2025. And bookings for World Cup and for host US cities also down.
Even search AI notes that the recent SM viral posts represent a small amount of the overall visitors.