President Trump speaks to reporters after arriving on Air Drive One on Tuesday at Joint Base Andrews, Md.
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Greater than half of individuals in key U.S. allies – together with France, the UK, Germany, South Korea and Japan – haven’t any confidence in President Trump’s management in world affairs, in line with a brand new global survey by the Pew Research Center.
Individuals in 15 of 24 international locations downgraded their rankings of the U.S., in line with the survey of greater than 28,000. As well as, majorities in nearly each nation surveyed describe Trump as “smug” and “harmful.”
NPR reached out to the White Home for a response to the survey’s outcomes.
“President Trump is the president of the American folks and his precedence is to work on their behalf, no person else’s,” wrote spokesman Steven Cheung. “The overwhelming majority of Individuals help his America First agenda. America is again on high after 4 years of failure below Joe Biden.”
In actual fact, latest polls present the president’s approval score stands at about 43%.
Richard Wike, who runs the worldwide attitudes crew at Pew, says one purpose that Trump and the U.S. are receiving low rankings abroad is many individuals all over the world desire a extra engaged America.
“For those who have a look at our surveys through the years, folks in different international locations typically need to see the U.S. working collaboratively, partaking in efforts with different international locations to deal with massive world challenges,” says Wike. “When the U.S. goes its personal method, it is seen extra negatively.”
As an example, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris international climate accord for the second time after taking workplace in January. Within the Pew survey, lower than 20% of individuals in Canada, France, Germany, Australia and Spain expressed confidence in Trump’s dealing with of local weather change.
Trump has additionally imposed a sequence of steep, on-again, off-again tariffs on allies, equivalent to Canada, and rivals, equivalent to China, wreaking havoc with monetary markets. Lower than a 3rd of individuals within the Netherlands, Italy, Japan and Sweden expressed confidence within the president’s capacity to handle world financial issues, the survey discovered.
