^^And now Trump is going to represent America in Poland, at the G20 summit and with President Putin.
I found the size of the survey described in the article below to be substantial, and the findings compelling.
Independent
Voices
Trump kicks off his second foreign tour as president today
Andrew Hammond
Wednesday 5 July 2017 10:21 BST
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Excerpts from article:
The latest evidence of the extent of international disdain for Trump is found in
a major report last week from Pew Global Research. Remarkably, this found that around three quarters of the world has little or no confidence in his international leadership and policies. Indeed, in many countries, support for the President is lower than that for Bush in 2004 after the controversial US-led invasion of Iraq.
To be sure, at least
two significant countries – Israel and Russia – have much higher faith in Trump and his international leadership. But these are very much the exceptions in a sea of international negativity toward him from Asia-Pacific to the Americas.
As last week’s Pew data revealed, the spike in anti-US sentiment in many countries for the first time since Bush’s presidency means
Trump now has potential to become the least popular ever US president overseas in modern history. And this could undercut much of the work that Barack Obama undertook to turn around the climate of perception about the country in the last eight years.
Coming into office in 2009, Obama confronted a situation in which anti-US sentiment was at about its highest levels since at least the Vietnam War. The key factor driving this was the international unpopularity of the Bush administration’s foreign policies in the so-called “war on terror".
The Obama team did much to reverse these public opinion patterns. And according to one research study, by Anholt-GfK Roper Nation Brands Index, which uses the same tools that consultants use to value corporate brands,
the “Obama effect” was estimated to have raised the value of “Brand America” by $2.1 trillion in the first year of his presidency alone.
This reflected the substantial increase in foreigners regarding the United States as the most admired country in the world again following the Bush presidency. And this turnaround in fortunes was not only been welcomed in Washington but also in corporate America, following concerns during the Bush years that US-headquartered multinationals were becoming a focus for a commercial backlash because of anti-Americanism.
Indeed, it is crystal clear that
much of the world still wishes that Hillary Clinton was elected last November. Although she lost last year’s US election, she was the stand-out winner in last year’s poll of nearly 50,000 people in 45 countries, covering 75 per cent of the world, by WIN/ Gallup International Association. The survey found that the public in all but one country (Russia) wanted Clinton to win over Trump.
And the WIN/Gallup poll results were very similar to that by Handelsblatt last year that was taken with some 20,000 people in the G20.
Once again, Russia was the only state where Trump bested Clinton.