According to a new report from the Pew Research Center<\/a>, views of America across the world are worsening and confidence in President Donald Trump\u2019s leadership is dropping.<\/p>\nPew surveyed 42,000 people across 36 countries between February and May, and found that America has a largely negative impression on the global theater. Only 23 percent of surveyed adults expressed confidence in Trump\u2019s leadership \u2014 eliciting less confidence than Chinese leader Xi Jinping (34 percent) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (31 percent). <\/p>\n
Foreign policy is the biggest pain point for Trump\u2019s international critics, who take issue with his handling of tariffs, Gaza, Iran, Greenland and the Russia-Ukraine war, according to Pew\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, fewer countries \u2014 and longtime allies \u2014 believe the U.S. is a reliable partner. In Canada, where 83 percent of respondents described the U.S. as reliable in 2022, that number is now down to 35 percent.<\/p>\n
In 2023, 60 percent of Germans said the U.S. considers international interests in its foreign policy decisions. That share has now dwindled to 23 percent \u2014 Germany\u2019s public opinion of the U.S. is \u201cnow similar to or more negative than what was measured during George W. Bush\u2019s presidency, when many people in Europe and elsewhere strongly opposed the war in Iraq and other major elements of U.S. foreign policy,\u201d writes Pew.<\/p>\n
There are only seven nations where a majority rate the U.S. well \u2014 Israel leads the pack, with 81 percent of respondents viewing America favorably. Some of the country\u2019s lowest ratings come from predominantly Muslim publics, \u201csuch as Malaysians, Pakistanis, Turks, and Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over the past decade, Pew\u2019s polling has found growing concerns about the health of American democracy. A 2013 Pew survey, just as Barack Obama entered his second term, an all-time high of 75 percent of respondents in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, the Philippines, South Korea and the U.K. said the U.S. respects its citizens\u2019 personal freedoms. <\/p>\n
Since then, declining shares of world respondents believe the U.S. respects its citizens\u2019 personal liberties \u2014 and this year, 56 percent of respondents said the U.S. does not.<\/p>\n