Poll shows large decline in Mexico, Poland and Canada, with just 34% of people expressing some confidence in Trump
Barely one-third of people polled across 24 countries say they have confidence in Donald Trump as a world leader, with most describing the US president as “arrogant” and “dangerous”, and relatively few as “honest”.
The survey of more than 28,000 people by the Pew Research Center also found that opinions of the US had worsened over the past year in more than half the countries polled – including falls of 20-plus points in Mexico, Sweden, Poland and Canada. In the UK, the figure had dropped from 54% to 50%.
Asked how much confidence they had in Trump to “do the right thing in world affairs”, just 34% of respondents across the two dozen countries expressed some degree of confidence in him, with 62% saying they had little or no confidence.
Only in five countries did a majority say they had “some” or “a lot” of confidence in Trump to do the right thing: Nigeria (79%), Kenya (74%), Israel (69%), Hungary (53%) and India (52%). In the other 19, opinions of the US president, who returned to the White House in January, were negative.
