The World Is Questioning Trump's Leadership
According to a new study from Pew Research which polled 40,000 people in 37 nations, Donald Trump's presidency has had a "major impact on how the world sees the United States".
You will find more statistics at Statista
As Statista's Niall McCarthy notes, three quarters of those polled had little to no faith in the U.S. president doing the right thing for world affairs compared to an unimpressive 22 percent who have a great deal of confidence in him. Broken down on a country by country basis, majorities of respondents in Israel and Russia were confident about Trump's leadership abilities but nearly every other nation displayed a high degree of skepticism.
Across the board, Obama's perfomance on the world stage is generally held in higher regard than Trump's. People were polled at the end of Obama's eight-year term and 88 percent of Germans, 83 percent of Canadians and 79 percent of people in the UK were satisfied with his global leadership.
When asked about Trump's presidency, on the other hand, only 11 percent of Germans and 22 percent of those in Canada and the UK had faith in his global leadership.
Source : ZeroHedge
I would suggest there is a direct correlation between the presence of effective independent media and the results of this survey. There is, for example, no widely recognized non-English speaking independent media platform in Europe I can name. When I asked my European friends where they go to get objective news reporting, they invariable cite what we in the states would consider main stream sources. When I asked where they go to get alternative news, some repeated their previous answers, others scoff at the very idea their favored source could be politically biased and for a few the question just didn't register.
There was even a nice write-up recently about how wrong the following graphic was about the German ARD at übermedien:
The critique is upset that neutral reports were left out of the calculations, ARD isn't nearly 98% negatively biased, only 98% of the reports that didn't have a strictly neutral 'tone' were negative! To all appearances it looks like the author doesn't completely understand the connotations of 'tone' in English, but I digress. The critique basically ends by saying "Negative press, yeah, he earned it!" Surprise!
Thanks so much for this post and for sharing it. I actually wasn't too aware of poll numbers how the world views Trump's and Obama's handling of international affairs. It's actually not a large surprise that the figures show that Obama had a higher confidence rate in this area than Trump. Trump mainly campaigned on a America first policy that focuses on the United States than on world. So far, his actions done in the international arena don't spell out huge confidence for traditional U.S. world policies such as NATO, free trade in NAFTA, Paris climate agreements, etc.
I would call him and the system he leads rulers, and I question the need for rulers.
We have the technology to live a more robust and peaceful way through voluntary actions and that is what I desperately hope we start working for.
Nihil novi... everyone knew that he would not be so great in international politics.
Just another poll taken by Libs. These are the same people who said Hillary was going to win the election. Biased poll. They take the polls to show what they want. I for one am happy that all those Germans and the people of Canada & UK do not have faith in his global leadership. Remember America first. He must be doing everything right.
I think it is important to remember that Presidents are not elected to govern outside of their nations, as an Australian, I love the fact that Trump is putting his people first.
Upvote this comment, if you dont need global leadership! #offshorthepeople
Yes those numbers are the one you can see in the mainstream media. I am french and i can tell you what the European medias are saying is really not the reflect of what the peoples are thinking. In Europe today if you want real news you have to turn for dissident medias on internet (some are more popular than the mainstream one) or to some foreign country media that we trust. Political correctness is everywhere in the European media and peoples don't believe in it. Today mainstream media receive all their funding by government so you can imagine. Don't believe those numbers
The world didn't actually improve while Obama was President. It would be interesting to see who they polled in each country.
do not compare 7 months with 8 years.