“she mispronounced her EU counterparts’ names and claimed U.S. democracy was older than Europe’s.”.....
NICE START THERE, THUNDER THIGHS!
With the exception of the UK, and they are a monarchy. She's right. Every government in the world (UK excepted) is younger than the USA.
Well, US representative republic is older than Europe’s examples of the same, unless one means by that an oligarchy like the Republic of Venice in the Middle Ages.
Now US democracy? Well, when did that begin? Late 1800s? If so, I suppose one could argue that France was ahead of us, but just how wide was the franchise in France in 1880?
I think Reuters got at least part of this wrong.