Trump, US receive overwhelmingly negative reviews in new Pew global survey

A new survey by the Pew Research Center finds that global views of President Trump are overwhelmingly negative, and fewer people say the U.S. is a reliable partner.

Among more than 42,000 respondents across 36 countries, approximately two-thirds expressed no confidence in Trump’s leadership of world affairs.

The polling was carried out between Feb. 8 and May 13, largely during the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran. The war has drawn global condemnation while upending the world economy. 

Researchers also surveyed respondents on Trump’s most controversial global policies of the last year and a half. These policies include major cuts to U.S. foreign assistance; his imposition of tariffs; his hard-line immigration actions and deportations; the capture of Venezuela’s former president, Nicolás Maduro; his handling of Russia’s war against Ukraine; the president’s threats to take over Greenland; and the Israel-Hamas conflict in the Gaza Strip.

“We actually saw some big shifts last year after Trump took office, but what we have in this year’s data is that there’s even further decline in most countries that we also surveyed last year,” said Richard Wike, director of global attitudes research at Pew. 

Confidence in Trump declined since last year in 16 of 24 nations, Pew found, and no surveyed country showed an increase in positive attitudes toward the president. Only 23 percent of respondents said they have confidence in Trump doing the right thing in global affairs. 

Respondents have more confidence in French President Emmanuel Macron (43 percent), Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (35 percent), Chinese President Xi Jinping (34 percent) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (31 percent).........

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