Three-quarters of world has little or no confidence in Trump

[tallguy]

The research conducted across 37 countries shows a median of 22% have some or a great deal of confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs. Almost three-quarters (74%) have little to no confidence in the Republican leader.

By contrast, in the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a median of 64% expressed confidence in Trump’s predecessor to direct America’s role in the world.

The polling also shows that the low level of support for the president is leading to a decline in support for wider American values. Just 49% expressed a broadly positive view of the US, compared with 64% in surveys carried out 2015 and 2016.

For the first time in Pew research history, most Canadians no longer regard America as a force for good in the world.

Just 43% of Canadians have a positive view of their neighbour.
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The poll suggests that Angela Merkel has replaced the American president as the politician to whom the world’s people look for leadership.
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(J)ust 6% of Germans said they believed Trump was qualified to be president; 13% believe he cares about ordinary people; and 91% regard him as arrogant, 81% as intolerant, and 76% as dangerous.

In the UK, 89% see him as arrogant, 77% as intolerant and 69% as dangerous. Globally, 65% think Trump is intolerant and 62% that he is dangerous.
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In more than half of the 37 countries surveyed, positive views of the US experienced double-digit drops in 2017.

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Not particularly surprising, is it?   

[busymom]

Not surprising.  We don't have much confidence in him, either.  

[Value Buy]

Looks like America is finally doing things right!

[thyme4change]

I wonder how much of that is based on educated views or if it is just a reflection of pop culture's disdain.

[tallguy]

Looks like America is finally doing things right!

Doing what right?  Abdicating our place as leader of the free world?  No longer even being seen as a force for good?  What happened to the "shining city on a hill?"  There is no longer a beacon of light to inspire freedom-loving people everywhere.  What exactly is this administration doing to finally make things right?     

[Blonde Granny]

It's OK with me if they have no confidence in Pres. Trump! Maybe they're just worried that the hand outs will end....hey, that's the ticket & we can keep our money at home for use on our troubles.

[Opti]

Jun 27, 2017 8:55:32 GMT -5 Blonde Granny said:

It's OK with me if they have no confidence in Pres. Trump! Maybe they're just worried that the hand outs will end....hey, that's the ticket & we can keep our money at home for use on our troubles.

Spoken like a rightist. I think the countries with the least like probably get no handouts and/or allow the US bases in their country. Like Germany. They don't have to be the place many of our military get treated for injuries, but they are. But you might be right about the two with the most favorable ratings. Israel does get a lot of funding from us.

From the OP URL-

The two major countries expressing faith in Trump’s ability to be a force for good are Israel and Russia.

[Opti]

Jun 27, 2017 8:45:56 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Looks like America is finally doing things right!

Doing what right?  Abdicating our place as leader of the free world?  No longer even being seen as a force for good?  What happened to the "shining city on a hill?"  There is no longer a beacon of light to inspire freedom-loving people everywhere.  What exactly is this administration doing to finally make things right?     

Some think being a jerk is a plus. Therefore America being a jerk is a plus.

[Opti]

Ack, it appears we give money to Russia. There might be more recent info, but Wiki has the top 25 countries we give money to in 2013. Israel is number 2 and Russia falls in the top 25. (No European countries listed.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

[Blonde Granny]

Jun 27, 2017 9:58:03 GMT -5 Opti said:

Ack, it appears we give money to Russia. There might be more recent info, but Wiki has the top 25 countries we give money to in 2013. Israel is number 2 and Russia falls in the top 25. (No European countries listed.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

Let's not forget the $150B we gave to Iran under the Obama administration.

[Deleted]

He achieved half the return of the S&P 500 during his business career with his daddy's inheritance that included filing BK multiple times and cheating vendors. How anyone could have any kind of confidence in that man with anything but being a reality star is a mystery.

[Opti]

Jun 27, 2017 10:02:45 GMT -5 Blonde Granny said:

Jun 27, 2017 9:58:03 GMT -5 Opti said:

Ack, it appears we give money to Russia. There might be more recent info, but Wiki has the top 25 countries we give money to in 2013. Israel is number 2 and Russia falls in the top 25. (No European countries listed.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

Let's not forget the $150B we gave to Iran under the Obama administration.

I remember, if you are talking about the payment we owed them for many years.

[mmhmm]

Jun 27, 2017 10:02:45 GMT -5 Blonde Granny said:

Jun 27, 2017 9:58:03 GMT -5 Opti said:

Ack, it appears we give money to Russia. There might be more recent info, but Wiki has the top 25 countries we give money to in 2013. Israel is number 2 and Russia falls in the top 25. (No European countries listed.)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_foreign_aid

Let's not forget the $150B we gave to Iran under the Obama administration.

We didn't give Iran anything that wasn't already theirs. These funds were frozen by economic sanctions by the US and allies that had been placed on Iran due to its nuclear program. The sanctions have been lifted so the money (theirs to begin with) was unfrozen. Some of it won't even get to them. It's owed to other countries, primarily China.

[bean29]

Jun 27, 2017 8:55:32 GMT -5 Blonde Granny said:

It's OK with me if they have no confidence in Pres. Trump! Maybe they're just worried that the hand outs will end....hey, that's the ticket & we can keep our money at home for use on our troubles.

I really don't like Trump, but I agree that a lot of the handouts should be reviewed and possibly ended. More money should be spent domestically.

[Value Buy]

Jun 27, 2017 8:45:02 GMT -5 thyme4change said:

I wonder how much of that is based on educated views or if it is just a reflection of pop culture's disdain.

Or on multiple reporting of fake news by world's leading international news agencies.

[emma1420]

Jun 27, 2017 8:45:56 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Looks like America is finally doing things right!

Doing what right?  Abdicating our place as leader of the free world?  No longer even being seen as a force for good?  What happened to the "shining city on a hill?"  There is no longer a beacon of light to inspire freedom-loving people everywhere.  What exactly is this administration doing to finally make things right?     

It does make me laugh that the GOP who have basically spent the last 8 years talking about how Obama hurt our standing in the world and didn't show any leadership, are now supporting a guy who the world has less confidence in than Putin.

[emma1420]

Jun 27, 2017 10:46:29 GMT -5 bean29 said:

Jun 27, 2017 8:55:32 GMT -5 Blonde Granny said:

It's OK with me if they have no confidence in Pres. Trump! Maybe they're just worried that the hand outs will end....hey, that's the ticket & we can keep our money at home for use on our troubles.

I really don't like Trump, but I agree that a lot of the handouts should be reviewed and possibly ended. More money should be spent domestically.

I'm all for cutting the military's budget in half.  I don't understand why they need 57 percent of all discretionary spending (especially when foreign aid only takes up 1%).  

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jun 27, 2017 1:16:44 GMT -5 tallguy said:

The research conducted across 37 countries shows a median of 22% have some or a great deal of confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to international affairs. Almost three-quarters (74%) have little to no confidence in the Republican leader.

By contrast, in the final years of Barack Obama’s presidency, a median of 64% expressed confidence in Trump’s predecessor to direct America’s role in the world.

The polling also shows that the low level of support for the president is leading to a decline in support for wider American values. Just 49% expressed a broadly positive view of the US, compared with 64% in surveys carried out 2015 and 2016.

For the first time in Pew research history, most Canadians no longer regard America as a force for good in the world.

Just 43% of Canadians have a positive view of their neighbour.
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The poll suggests that Angela Merkel has replaced the American president as the politician to whom the world’s people look for leadership.
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(J)ust 6% of Germans said they believed Trump was qualified to be president; 13% believe he cares about ordinary people; and 91% regard him as arrogant, 81% as intolerant, and 76% as dangerous.

In the UK, 89% see him as arrogant, 77% as intolerant and 69% as dangerous. Globally, 65% think Trump is intolerant and 62% that he is dangerous.
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In more than half of the 37 countries surveyed, positive views of the US experienced double-digit drops in 2017.

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Not particularly surprising, is it?   

Simply put: if the world trusts Angela Merkel at all (let alone more than Trump) then the world is wrong. Happens a lot, actually. Remember 'detente'. Remember where Reagan told the world they could shove it? Remember the outcome? 

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jun 27, 2017 15:32:57 GMT -5 emma1420 said:

Jun 27, 2017 10:46:29 GMT -5 bean29 said:

I really don't like Trump, but I agree that a lot of the handouts should be reviewed and possibly ended. More money should be spent domestically.

I'm all for cutting the military's budget in half.  I don't understand why they need 57 percent of all discretionary spending (especially when foreign aid only takes up 1%).  

You won't get an argument on that from me, but discretionary spending is not the biggest problem we face. It's not even the third biggest problem we face. We need to deal with the now mathematically impossible to pay debt-- and by deal with it, I mean quit repudiating the debt through inflation and just be honest: some of you folks that are owed money ain't getting it. Period.

Of course, that problem is politically impossible to solve- people are not suddenly going to go vote themselves less money. They'll keep hoping against hope that the imminent collapse won't happen until they're long gone-- because people are basically selfish and immoral. They don't care that they voted to spend it all, and borrow besides. They just want theirs. Screw posterity.

[tallguy]

Jun 28, 2017 7:51:30 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jun 27, 2017 1:16:44 GMT -5 tallguy said:

link

Not particularly surprising, is it?   

Simply put: if the world trusts Angela Merkel at all (let alone more than Trump) then the world is wrong. Happens a lot, actually. Remember 'detente'. Remember where Reagan told the world they could shove it? Remember the outcome? 

I do remember Ronald Reagan.  And I do not now and never did have a lot of respect for the Reagan presidency.  It was he and his administration that put us on the debt course that will ultimately destroy us as a country, and that fact alone is enough to disqualify him from any list of good presidents.  The best thing about him was that he looked and sounded presidential, and that he made people feel good.  The thing for Donald Trump fans to remember is this:  'Mr. President, you are no Ronald Reagan.'  Donald Trump has none of Reagan's positives, while his negatives far outweigh not only Reagan's but also any other president in our lifetimes.  Trump is easily the worst president (already) in generations, and is on track to be the worst ever.  The man is spectacularly unsuited to the job in virtually every area.  Intellect, maturity, wisdom, compassion, ethics, rationality.  He fails in all of those, and more.      

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jun 28, 2017 9:17:24 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Jun 28, 2017 7:51:30 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Simply put: if the world trusts Angela Merkel at all (let alone more than Trump) then the world is wrong. Happens a lot, actually. Remember 'detente'. Remember where Reagan told the world they could shove it? Remember the outcome? 

I do remember Ronald Reagan.  And I do not now and never did have a lot of respect for the Reagan presidency.  It was he and his administration that put us on the debt course that will ultimately destroy us as a country, and that fact alone is enough to disqualify him from any list of good presidents.  The best thing about him was that he looked and sounded presidential, and that he made people feel good.  The thing for Donald Trump fans to remember is this:  'Mr. President, you are no Ronald Reagan.'  Donald Trump has none of Reagan's positives, while his negatives far outweigh not only Reagan's but also any other president in our lifetimes.  Trump is easily the worst president (already) in generations, and is on track to be the worst ever.  The man is spectacularly unsuited to the job in virtually every area.  Intellect, maturity, wisdom, compassion, ethics, rationality.  He fails in all of those, and more.      

Incorrect.

FDR's "New Deal", and LBJ's "Great Society" programs put us on the course towards insolvency and economic collapse. This was accelerated by Cloward and Piven - radicals which Obama was a student of, and which perfectly explains why he rolled back the successful welfare reform policies, opened the borders, and invented ObamaCare-- to accelerate the inevitable economic collapse framework laid years earlier for the purpose of collapsing the system and replacing it with their dream of a glorious socialist utopia-- global communism.

[imawino]

The fact that one quarter might have some confidence in him is the most appalling takeaway here.

[dondub]

Cloward, Piven, Alinsky, Ayers...yawn, yawn, yawn.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

Jun 28, 2017 9:45:10 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Aaaand..... off the rails we go!

You know leftists like Alinsky wrote things kind of on the order of Mein Kampf in that they are very clear about what they want to do. One of Obama's very few highlights on his resume, "Community Organizer" is verbatim Alinsky. This isn't black helicopter shit. This is who Obama and Hillary are-- they are very open.

[swamp]

Jun 28, 2017 7:55:51 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

Jun 27, 2017 15:32:57 GMT -5 emma1420 said:

I'm all for cutting the military's budget in half.  I don't understand why they need 57 percent of all discretionary spending (especially when foreign aid only takes up 1%).  

You won't get an argument on that from me, but discretionary spending is not the biggest problem we face. It's not even the third biggest problem we face. We need to deal with the now mathematically impossible to pay debt-- and by deal with it, I mean quit repudiating the debt through inflation and just be honest: some of you folks that are owed money ain't getting it. Period.

Of course, that problem is politically impossible to solve- people are not suddenly going to go vote themselves less money. They'll keep hoping against hope that the imminent collapse won't happen until they're long gone-- because people are basically selfish and immoral. They don't care that they voted to spend it all, and borrow besides. They just want theirs. Screw posterity.

Hmmm, where do I recognize that business plan from? Anyone?

[Opti]

Jun 28, 2017 13:22:41 GMT -5 swamp said:

Jun 28, 2017 7:55:51 GMT -5 AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP said:

You won't get an argument on that from me, but discretionary spending is not the biggest problem we face. It's not even the third biggest problem we face. We need to deal with the now mathematically impossible to pay debt-- and by deal with it, I mean quit repudiating the debt through inflation and just be honest: some of you folks that are owed money ain't getting it. Period.

Of course, that problem is politically impossible to solve- people are not suddenly going to go vote themselves less money. They'll keep hoping against hope that the imminent collapse won't happen until they're long gone-- because people are basically selfish and immoral. They don't care that they voted to spend it all, and borrow besides. They just want theirs. Screw posterity.

Hmmm, where do I recognize that business plan from? Anyone?

Maybe this guy?

that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ...

www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

[hurley1980]

Jun 27, 2017 15:29:49 GMT -5 emma1420 said:

Jun 27, 2017 8:45:56 GMT -5 tallguy said:

Doing what right?  Abdicating our place as leader of the free world?  No longer even being seen as a force for good?  What happened to the "shining city on a hill?"  There is no longer a beacon of light to inspire freedom-loving people everywhere.  What exactly is this administration doing to finally make things right?     

It does make me laugh that the GOP who have basically spent the last 8 years talking about how Obama hurt our standing in the world and didn't show any leadership, are now supporting a guy who the world has less confidence in than Putin.

Well they also spent the last 8 years bitching non-stop about how much golf Obama played!  They don't seem to mind with Trump though.....

[swamp]

Jun 28, 2017 13:30:34 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

Jun 27, 2017 15:29:49 GMT -5 emma1420 said:

It does make me laugh that the GOP who have basically spent the last 8 years talking about how Obama hurt our standing in the world and didn't show any leadership, are now supporting a guy who the world has less confidence in than Putin.

Well they also spent the last 8 years bitching non-stop about how much golf Obama played!  They don't seem to mind with Trump though.....

But it's different!  He's working on the golf course!!!

[emma1420]

Jun 28, 2017 14:21:45 GMT -5 swamp said:

Jun 28, 2017 13:30:34 GMT -5 hurley1980 said:

Well they also spent the last 8 years bitching non-stop about how much golf Obama played!  They don't seem to mind with Trump though.....

But it's different!  He's working on the golf course!!!

I don't know why anyone complains about his golfing.  He's only spent 31 days playing golf, that's only 10% of what Obama played

[tallguy]

Jun 28, 2017 9:45:10 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Aaaand..... off the rails we go!

I don't mind occasionally going off the rails, but I ain't goin' over the cliff.  Dude can do that without me.