IN SPITE OF TRUMP’S ASSERTIONS, INTERNATIONAL POLL SHOWS
OTHERWISE.
The president made his remarks about world respect at a
campaign rally, which got far more media attention for his criticism of
professional football players who kneel during the pregame national anthem. Trump, Sept. 22: ‘It’s one of the greatest
honors of my life to represent the American people on that world stage. And I
will tell you, the world is starting to
respect the United States of America again.”
We cannot find any surveys that measure “respect,” and the White House could not provide any. [They couldn’t even find ‘alternative facts’
to try to justify the President.] However,
the Pew Global Attitudes Project since 2002 has been tracking world confidence
in U.S. presidents and world opinion of the U.S. in general. Pew reports a
sharp decline in both.
In June, the Pew Research Center released the results of its
surveys in 37 countries and found that among those nations “a median of just
22% has confidence in Trump to do the right thing when it comes to
international affairs.” By contrast, “a median of 64% expressed confidence” in
Obama.
The decline in confidence in the U.S. president has been
severe in some countries since Trump took office on Jan. 20, 2017, and it “is
especially pronounced among some of America’s closest allies in Europe and
Asia, as well as neighboring Mexico and Canada,” Pew found. . . .In addition to
Germany, which we mentioned earlier [11 percent], only 14 percent of French
citizens surveyed said they had “a lot of confidence” or “some confidence” in
Trump — a drop of 70 percentage points from the 84 percent that expressed
confidence in Obama.
Other notable low confidence scores for Trump: Mexico, 5
percent; Canada, 22 percent; the United Kingdom, 22 percent [Our closest ally];
Japan, 24 percent; and Italy, 25 percent.
[Our NATO allies have an extremely low rating of Trump] . . . The Pew
survey shows that Trump received “higher marks than Obama in only two
countries: Russia and Israel.” The increase was particularly pronounced in
Russia, where 53 percent of those surveyed said they had confidence in Trump.
Only 11 percent had expressed confidence in Obama. [Trump has courted Israeli hardliners, incl.
P.M. Netanhayu who will eventually incorporate all the West Bank into Israel in
spite of U.N. Resoulitions and internatonal law and the rights of
Palestinians. Trump loves ‘strong men’
like Nethanyahu, Putin and the Phillipines’ brutal maniac.] . . .
The lack of confidence in the current U.S. president is also
having an impact on the image of the U.S. in general. . . . “In countries where
confidence in the U.S. president fell most, America’s overall image has also
tended to suffer more,” Pew reports. “In the closing years of the Obama
presidency, a median of 64% had a positive view of the U.S. Today, just 49% are
favorably inclined toward America. Again, some of the steepest declines in U.S.
image are found among long-standing allies.”…The steepest decline was in
Mexico, where only 30 percent of those surveyed said that they had a favorable
view of the United States — down from 66 percent in 2016. “Favorability ratings have only increased in
Russia and Vietnam,” Pew reported."
[Government controlled media in Russian are apparently send out
favorable reports to their people. This,
is consistent with verified reports from Twitter, Facebook and intelligence
sources that Russian companies and individuals, sent out messages unfavorable
to Clinton and favorable to Trump. Who
knows what’s going on in Vietnam? They see what Trump supporters refuse to acknowledge. A President who has the wrong temperament to be a good President] SOURCE: http://www.factcheck.org/2017/09/worldopinionTrump-u-s/
{National
leaderships rarely publicly criticize other national leaderships. However, I would bet the leadership ratings
reflect those leaders attitudes. How
does one conduct successful foreign policy in this atmosphere?}
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