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Gallup released their latest global Trump approval poll a few days ago. Dapper Don actually managed to sink global US approval lower than Bush during the Iraq war. Impressive in a way.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/225761/world-approval-leadership-drops-new-low.aspx
The most recent approval rating, based on Gallup World Poll surveys conducted between March and November last year, is down 18 percentage points from the 48% approval rating in the last year of President Barack Obama's administration, and is four points lower than the previous low of 34% in the last year of President George W. Bush's administration.
The recent drop in approval ratings is unrelated to the world's being less familiar with the new U.S. administration. The global median who do not have an opinion about U.S. leadership in 2017 (23%) is similar to the 25% in the last year of the Obama presidency.
Instead, disapproval of U.S. leadership increased almost as much as approval declined. The 43% median disapproval, up 15 points from the previous year, set a new record as well, not only for the U.S. but for any other major global power that Gallup has asked about in the past decade.
Big Losses Are Among Close Allies, Few Gains
The relatively fragile image of U.S. leadership in 2017 reflects large and widespread losses in approval and relatively few gains. Out of 134 countries, U.S. leadership approval ratings declined substantially -- by 10 percentage points or more -- in 65 countries that include many longtime U.S. allies and partners.
Portugal, Belgium, Norway and Canada led the declines worldwide, with approval ratings of U.S. leadership dropping 40 points or more in each country. While majorities in each of these countries approved of U.S. leadership in 2016, majorities disapproved in 2017.
In contrast, U.S. leadership approval increased 10 points or more in just four countries: Liberia (+17), Macedonia (+15), Israel (+14), and Belarus (+11). The 67% of Israelis who approve of U.S. leadership is on par with the ratings Israelis gave the U.S. during the Bush administration. Notably, interviewing in Israel took place before Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but he had repeatedly promised to do so during his campaign for president.
U.S. Approval Drops to New Lows in Americas
Regionally, the image of U.S. leadership suffered most in the Americas, where approval ratings dropped to a new low. The median of 24% who approve of U.S. leadership in the region now stands at about half of what it was in the last year of the Obama administration (49%).
Approval of U.S. leadership plunged in every country in the region in 2017. In fact, there were double-digit decreases in all countries except Venezuela, where approval dropped nine points.
U.S. leadership approval ratings suffered nearly as much in Europe as they did in the Americas; however, the current 25% approval rating there is not the lowest on record -- the ratings during the last two years of George W. Bush's administration still hold that distinction. In Asia, approval dropped to 30%, tying the previous low that Gallup measured during the Bush administration.
Africa as a whole remained the bright spot for U.S. leadership approval, as it has been for the past decade. Nonetheless, the approval rating for the region is at its lowest level yet, clinging to a bare majority (51%) that may be at risk after the president's alleged remarks about the continent last week.
Trump's First Year: Hard Times for U.S. Soft Power
The losses in U.S. leadership approval may have implications on U.S. influence abroad. With its stable approval rating of 41%, Germany has replaced the U.S. as the top-rated global power in the world. The U.S. is now on nearly even footing with China (31%) and barely more popular than Russia (27%) -- two countries that Trump sees as rivals seeking to "challenge American influence, values and wealth."
The present situation represents a marked change in the status quo since Obama's presidency, when the image of U.S. leadership remained relatively strong worldwide. In Obama's last year in office, for example, the U.S. led Germany by seven points, China by 17 points and Russia by 22 points.
The current rankings instead look more like a return to the status quo during the last year of the Bush administration -- with Germany on top, followed by China, the U.S. and then Russia -- except now, the U.S. has even more ground to make up.
Implications
It is too early in Trump's presidency to deem his "America First" foreign policy a success or failure. However, it is clear that based on the trajectory of what the world thinks of the U.S., many of the U.S. alliances and partnerships that the Trump administration considers a "great strength" are potentially at risk.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/225761/world-approval-leadership-drops-new-low.aspx
- Median approval of U.S. leadership is 30%, down from 48% in 2016
- U.S. approval dropped substantially in 65 countries and areas
- Germany's leadership now tops that of U.S., China and Russia
The most recent approval rating, based on Gallup World Poll surveys conducted between March and November last year, is down 18 percentage points from the 48% approval rating in the last year of President Barack Obama's administration, and is four points lower than the previous low of 34% in the last year of President George W. Bush's administration.
The recent drop in approval ratings is unrelated to the world's being less familiar with the new U.S. administration. The global median who do not have an opinion about U.S. leadership in 2017 (23%) is similar to the 25% in the last year of the Obama presidency.
Instead, disapproval of U.S. leadership increased almost as much as approval declined. The 43% median disapproval, up 15 points from the previous year, set a new record as well, not only for the U.S. but for any other major global power that Gallup has asked about in the past decade.
Big Losses Are Among Close Allies, Few Gains
The relatively fragile image of U.S. leadership in 2017 reflects large and widespread losses in approval and relatively few gains. Out of 134 countries, U.S. leadership approval ratings declined substantially -- by 10 percentage points or more -- in 65 countries that include many longtime U.S. allies and partners.
Portugal, Belgium, Norway and Canada led the declines worldwide, with approval ratings of U.S. leadership dropping 40 points or more in each country. While majorities in each of these countries approved of U.S. leadership in 2016, majorities disapproved in 2017.
In contrast, U.S. leadership approval increased 10 points or more in just four countries: Liberia (+17), Macedonia (+15), Israel (+14), and Belarus (+11). The 67% of Israelis who approve of U.S. leadership is on par with the ratings Israelis gave the U.S. during the Bush administration. Notably, interviewing in Israel took place before Trump officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, but he had repeatedly promised to do so during his campaign for president.
U.S. Approval Drops to New Lows in Americas
Regionally, the image of U.S. leadership suffered most in the Americas, where approval ratings dropped to a new low. The median of 24% who approve of U.S. leadership in the region now stands at about half of what it was in the last year of the Obama administration (49%).
Approval of U.S. leadership plunged in every country in the region in 2017. In fact, there were double-digit decreases in all countries except Venezuela, where approval dropped nine points.
U.S. leadership approval ratings suffered nearly as much in Europe as they did in the Americas; however, the current 25% approval rating there is not the lowest on record -- the ratings during the last two years of George W. Bush's administration still hold that distinction. In Asia, approval dropped to 30%, tying the previous low that Gallup measured during the Bush administration.
Africa as a whole remained the bright spot for U.S. leadership approval, as it has been for the past decade. Nonetheless, the approval rating for the region is at its lowest level yet, clinging to a bare majority (51%) that may be at risk after the president's alleged remarks about the continent last week.
Trump's First Year: Hard Times for U.S. Soft Power
The losses in U.S. leadership approval may have implications on U.S. influence abroad. With its stable approval rating of 41%, Germany has replaced the U.S. as the top-rated global power in the world. The U.S. is now on nearly even footing with China (31%) and barely more popular than Russia (27%) -- two countries that Trump sees as rivals seeking to "challenge American influence, values and wealth."
The present situation represents a marked change in the status quo since Obama's presidency, when the image of U.S. leadership remained relatively strong worldwide. In Obama's last year in office, for example, the U.S. led Germany by seven points, China by 17 points and Russia by 22 points.
The current rankings instead look more like a return to the status quo during the last year of the Bush administration -- with Germany on top, followed by China, the U.S. and then Russia -- except now, the U.S. has even more ground to make up.
Implications
It is too early in Trump's presidency to deem his "America First" foreign policy a success or failure. However, it is clear that based on the trajectory of what the world thinks of the U.S., many of the U.S. alliances and partnerships that the Trump administration considers a "great strength" are potentially at risk.
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I believe African-Americans have an old proverb for those Gallup results.
"We tried to tell y'all"
"We tried to tell y'all"
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Math must not be your strong point
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But what about the mean football players disrespecting the troops by not standing for the anthem.
They’re the real bad guys. Stay woke
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Logic must not be your strong point.
Kind of silly to pick on Democrats for not getting the bill passed when already 5 Republicans VOTED AGAINST IT.
If for ****s and giggles 9 more Democrats voted yes to get the vote count to 59, would you then go after the remaining Democrats for blocking this, or would you go after the 5 Republican Senators for blocking it?
Logic tells me which one you would do.
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naw for reals.. im done
I sense a bit of irony here.
u are aware that calling 1/2 da Country a bag of deplorables is bad strategy right?
this is pretty much da left's version of Mitt Romney's 47% comments.
no candidate had EVER disrespected their competitor's voters...u might kinda need em later
Half of trump supporters, not half of the country.
Deplorable people mad at being called deplorable
seeing as how Clinton & Trump basically tied... calling large swaths of da electorate "deplorables" doesn't cone across as..smart
this plus her bombing out at da chief of staff townhouse isn't giving confidence with her supporters.
da #1 article in da Washington post is liberals nail biting why she isn't far ahead of Trump.
Da debates gon b litttttt.
This guy really thinks half the COUNTRY = half of Trump's voters
Clinton's surrogates already trying to walk it back so.....
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Y'all some rookies when it comes to not having a functioning government. We showed the rest of the world including war-torn Iraq how it's done between 2007-2011 and set the global record at 589 days without a government. I'm guessing the record probably belongs to someone else now but we did demolish the competition for some time.
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Which memo are they referring to?
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Some magical memo that's supposed to send Obama and Hillary to jail, while simultaneously justifying Trump firing Mueller.
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But the press did report on Russian social media interference and these people all sat there for months rambling about fake news doing nothing. Press could always use a step up of course but the current administration doesn't even have any sort of action plan to deal with it as Sessions testified before congress.
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Did 100% of the Republicans in the senate vote for this bill on Friday?
Breezy evening.
Breezy evening.
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ya have a Good weekend.
You do the same.
Go out and have some fun, don't spend all weekend with your head in the sand.
You have the rest of the week for that
I think that's what user rillo561 was getting at. Maybe I'm just bad at math.
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If they did, would the spending bill have passed? Back to the calculator you go
Substantially more democrats voted to shut the government down. Republicans needed 60 votes. They only have 51 members. This is where the math comes in.
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The *****ing is getting tiring. You control all three branches of government and can't operate it. In the real world, we call that incompetence.
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so i guess the lesson is that donald trump is not the master deal maker that he boasts to be. if he were, there wouldn’t be any shut down.
100% of Republicans voted for the bill, or nah?
45 / 50 != 1.000. Let me know where my math is wrong.
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In addition, CHIP expired three months ago; DACA was ended purposefully, and Republicans don't even need to tie it to the budget to vote on it. They are not fooling anyone.
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Did 100% of Democrats vote for it? Or Against it? Yea, your math on 100% is correct, but it is irrelevant.
