BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told Breitbart News exclusively in his office here that American President Donald Trump is easily the most popular United States political leader in his country in a very long time.
Vucic said that Trump’s popularity in Serbia in the lead-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election reached astronomical proportions, with three quarters of Serbs liking Trump and wanting him to win. Vucic said that, in Serbia, Trump had “by far the biggest support” of anywhere in Europe and not even deep-red states like West Virginia, Kentucky, or Louisiana could hold a candle to Trump’s favorability here.
“What I can say is I was surprised with some comments that were made in the press in the United States where some other European countries in the past were emphasized as strongholds of Donald Trump because it was very obvious for all of us that in Serbia he had by far the biggest support, speaking about the election campaign, and that support exceeded even at that time 75 percent of those that are determined of course — which was not the case, even in the United States,” Vucic said. “Nowhere else.”
Vucic is the president of Serbia, a Balkan country in Eastern Europe that has frankly been through a lot over the last century plus. Serbia was part of Yugoslavia, which was divided during the aftermath of the breakup of the Soviet Union in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and before that was behind the Iron Curtain of Communism in the Soviet Union. But before Communism swept eastern Europe, Serbians sided with the Allies in World War II against the Nazis — and the nation lost a third of its population in both World War I and again in World War II. Later, the United States led a NATO bombing campaign against Serbia’s capital, Belgrade, during Bill Clinton’s administration — the Clintons are not popular here at all — and now Serbia is trying to join the European Union but facing some headwinds from Brussels as the as-of-yet unresolved Kosovo issue still looms large over Serbia’s future. Nonetheless, Belgrade’s thriving vibrance swirls together this rough history with a modern crossroads where west meets east and north meets south and Vucic, the nation’s president for the past several years, aims to strategically position Serbia for a bright 21st century. Vucic, an avid chess player, sat with Breitbart News last weekend for a nearly hourlong interview before he visited Beijing, China, one of the first world leaders to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping after Trump’s historic state visit to China in May. Vucic told Breitbart News there are several reasons why Trump is revered in Serbia
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