Surveys show that people around the world have less confidence and far more concern about American leadership under the Trump administration.
Conducted between May and October of 2019, the report surveyed 37,000 people in 33 countries. The data also showed that the majority of respondents disapproved of the president's decisions to allow fewer immigrants into the U.S. and to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Furthermore, the president's decisions to build a wall on the Mexican border, withdraw from the Paris climate accord and increase tariffs on imports were viewed disfavorably by 60 percent or more of those polled.
International confidence in the U.S. presidency dropped substantially after Trump took office, based on the latest Pew survey results compared with 2017 data. After Trump took office, confidence in the U.S. president plummeted from 64 percent at the end of Barack Obama's tenure to just 22 percent. Based on a comparison of year-over-year polls, Trump has managed to increase international confidence by 7 percent, but that is still less than half the level Obama had when left office.
The Pew Research data aligns with Gallup's annual Rating World Leaders report, which has shown approval of U.S. leadership in the world declined dramatically in 2017, Trump's first year in office. While it hovered at 48 percent in 2016, Obama's last year, it declined to just 30 percent in 2017. Global approval of U.S. leadership under Trump remained low in 2018, rising to only 31 percent. That was lower than China, which enjoyed 34 percent approval around the world.
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