WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several foreign countries have warned their citizens against visiting the United States following recent mass shootings of immigrants motivated by racism, a US writer said on Friday.

Did the United States become a "disgusting" country under President Donald Trump's administration, prompting those countries to sound alarm bells for their citizens to avoid traveling?

"Our friends around the world have reason to warn their citizens about certain facts happening in America," he said in his article full of cynicism and ridicule.

Even from the third world
Countries such as Uruguay, Venezuela, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand and even the Bahamas have advised their citizens to take extreme precautions and to exercise utmost caution if there is a need to travel to the United States.

The warnings were not confined to those countries alone, but America's biggest allies - such as Britain, Canada and Germany - also issued alerts ranging from notifying their nationals about the growing risk of terrorist attacks, high treatment costs, and gang violence in the United States.

The United States came under fire at two separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday, killing 31 people and injuring dozens in both El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. The authorities classified the two incidents as "racially motivated hate crimes".

Banana Republic
"We have suddenly become a banana republic," he said, noting that other countries around the world have begun to describe the United States as a "dangerous place full of hatred under the Trump administration."

He cynically pointed out that those countries will soon warn visitors to the United States of the need to boil drinking water and take antibiotics to avoid disease.

In his article, Milbank believes that the reason for all these warnings is that the US president used to declare to all the world that gangs and illegal immigrants "strangers" invaded "borders" and invaded the country with drugs.

Trump is hateful
The president also announced that US cities had become "dangerous places" infested with rodents to the point that no one wanted to live there anymore. Not only did Trump do so, he called the FBI leadership "corrupt" and the Justice Department became so suspicious that the word "justice" meant something different.

But the author believes that this view of America, as Trump portrayed it, is merely a fantasy.