katzgar (01-18-2018)
Other nations’ approval of U.S. leadership under President Donald Trump hit a historical low of 30 percent in 2017, according to a Gallup poll released Thursday.
The measure, the lowest since Gallup began tracking it worldwide in 2007, signals an 18-point drop from a year earlier, when 48 percent approved of the national influence under former President Barack Obama. It is the single largest year-to-year drop in approval of U.S. leadership — or of any country examined — to date.
The steep decline, researchers said, can be largely attributed to the shift in leadership in the West Wing.
“I think a lot of respondents when they’re being asked this, the first thing that’s top of mind is the leader of the country,” Gallup’s global managing partner, Jon Clifton, told POLITICO.
The falling ratings under Trump were both substantial and widespread.
Gallup found that approval dropped by 10 or more points in 65 of the 134 countries and areas surveyed. Regionally, the image of the U.S. was weaker in virtually every part of the world, registering record lows within multiple countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.
Disapproval of U.S. leadership, meanwhile, soared, increasing by 15 points from 2016 to 2017 and notching the highest mark — 43 percent — for any of the four major global powers surveyed over the past decade.
The opposite effect occurred when Trump’s predecessor entered the West Wing, with approval rising by 15 points between the final year of President George W. Bush’s administration and the first year of Obama’s.
Not since 2008 has U.S. leadership lagged behind both Germany and China in approval worldwide, with the Trump era only outpacing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government in 2017 of the four nations studied. Germany, by contrast, has not seen support of its public leaders fall below 40 percent mark — nor rise above 50 percent — once over the past decade, with the stewardship of Chancellor Angela Merkel registering 41 percent approval last year.
Ratings for U.S. leadership came in just ahead of Russia’s, which saw 27 percent support in 2017 compared with 30 percent in the U.S. — the slimmest margin between the two nations in the study so far.
Global views were among the worst in nations considered key U.S. allies, researchers said, undermining boasts by Trump about his close relationships with global leaders in pivotal diplomatic partnerships.
“The biggest decline that happened across the world are with our allies,” Clifton said.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
katzgar (01-18-2018)
No linky, you stinky!!
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Majority Of Americans See Trump's First Year As A Failure
As President Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, a majority of Americans think his first year in office has been a failure — and that he's divided the nation.
A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that by a 53-to-40-percent margin, Americans deemed Trump's first year a failure. And by an almost 2-to-1 margin (61 to 32 percent), Americans said they believe Trump has divided the country since his election.
Americans give Trump relatively positive marks on his handling of ISIS and the state of the economy — no small things. But on just about every other issue, they disapprove of his handling of them or they think things have gotten worse — from their views of the tax plan to the state of race relations and women's rights to immigration, health care, the deficit and foreign policy, including his approach to North Korea. Seven-in-10 Americans are now concerned about the possibility of war breaking out with the rogue nuclear nation.
"The first-year grades for Trump are not good," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. "He remains with his base intact and not much else. People remain doubtful in the institutions of our government, doubtful in how he's communicating things and how he's handling things. It's not a pretty picture for the president after the first year."
Read more: https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/57863...r-as-a-failure
Wait for it .... But But But But ... Obama ....
One thing you can bet on, the next time America wants to go to War ... Drumpf will have to ask his only Friend in his Collation ... Russia
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katzgar (01-18-2018)
not surpriding considering Fake News dominating the airwaves, and the new nationalism instead of the obsequious American leadership
all time moronic post..we COULD have had a Russian reset,but Putin and Trump are on the same bad faith path
driven by the Deep State ( Russiaphobia) that has also taken over the WH.
That was the true cost of the Flynn firing, and filling up the west wing with peeps like McMasters.
Russia was seen smuggling oil to NK..
at times like these we could have had a partner, but instead we got a zero sum relationship
Bourbon (01-18-2018)
Of course he's popular in Russia. They got him elected. Trump supporters are traitors. It's as simple as that.
Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
“We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”
That the Orange Hog is an utter failure has moved from the realm of opinion, and into the domain of immutable scientific fact.Majority Of Americans See Trump's First Year As A Failure
Really, its basically an established tenet of natural law when you think about it.
who would have thought that cutting off the purse strings would be unpopular.
That many of those same countries like mexico benefitted for years from American welfare getting a free ride, and are now upset the gravy train is over is music to my ears. Just as with countries like Germany, cheering with 400K-strong crowds for the turd obama - but by the time that filth left office those crowds weren't quite so enthusiastic any more.
The countries that need to work with us will continue to do, and the US will now act within its own national security interests - not those of the Honduran wealthy elite who have shipped their mass poor up to the US because they have fucked their countries over by robbing them blind.
And the day I give a flying fuck over feckless, lying, despicable european trash like federica mogherini, merkel, sigmar gabriel, or any other of that pro-iran regime scum is the day the sun turns purple - as in, never.
The country was well run before the mid 1960s when the national democraptic party decided it would not change its lunatic, big government, welfare platform, and would instead replace the voters by importing the mass poor filth of the 3rd world.
The dem party needs to be disbanded, its leadership indicted, arrested and hanged - for treason.
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