From the US perspective, President Barack Obama pivoted quickly from Mubarak to the people; but it did not look that way on Cairo’s streets. When the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi was elected President in 2012, many Egyptians assumed that America must have supported him, because they could not imagine that the US would accept a result that it did not want.
两年半前曾经领导埃及革命的年轻人一直对美国持怀疑态度，因为美国曾在30年时间里支持前总统胡斯尼·穆巴拉克政权。从美国的角度看，革命爆发后奥巴马总统迅速放弃穆巴拉克转而支持民众，但开罗街头的民众却不这么看。很多埃及人认定穆斯林兄弟会的穆罕默德·穆尔西2012年当选总统背后肯定有美国的支持，因为他们无法想象美国会接受它不想要的结果。