{"id":344568,"date":"2018-01-19T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=344568"},"modified":"2018-01-19T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T18:11:01","slug":"gallup-global-disapproval-u-s-leadership-soared-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/gallup-global-disapproval-u-s-leadership-soared-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallup: Global Disapproval of U.S. Leadership Has Soared Under Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse<\/span><\/p>\n

Gallup surveyed in 134 countries in 2017<\/span><\/a>, and on January 18th reported that:<\/span><\/p>\n

Median approval of U.S. leadership across the 134 countries surveyed in 2017 reached 30%, the lowest point since Gallup began tracking this measure annually in 2007. Disapproval of U.S. leadership increased almost as much as approval declined. The 43% median disapproval, up 15 points from the previous year, was a new record as well, not only for the U.S. but for any other major global power <\/i>[there were three others \u2014 Germany, Russia, and China \u2014 that] Gallup asked <\/i>[this question] about in the past decade.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

The map showing country-by-country results indicates declining approval of U.S. leadership in all countries in the Western Hemisphere, except no change in Jamaica and Trinidad-&-Tobago. There were 9% decline of approval of America\u2019s leadership in Venezuela, and declines ranging from 14% to 40% in all other countries throughout the Western Hemisphere. The biggest decline in the Hemisphere, 40%, occurred in Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Europe, there were declines in all countries except improvements (increased approval) in Macedonia 15%, Belarus 11%, Poland 8%, Slovakia and Montenegro 7%, Russia 6%, and Ukraine 4%. The biggest change was the 42% decline in approval of U.S. leadership in Norway, but close behind that was the 38% decline in Netherlands. Norway, Canada and Netherlands exhibited the biggest of all the declines in approval of U.S. leadership, among all the 134 nations surveyed.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Asia (including some Middle Eastern countries), there were increases only in Israel 14%, Iraq 9%, Lebanon and Azerbaijan 7%, Nepal 6%, Kazakhstan 5%, Mongolia 4%, Uzbekistan 2%, and Tajikistan and Palestine 1%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Africans seem to be the most pleased of all peoples with the change from Obama to Trump. There were approval-increases by 17% in Liberia, 8% in Mauritius and Benin, 7% in Ethiopia, 6% in Sierra Leone, 5% in Ghana, 4% in Chad and Algeria, 2% in South Sudan, and 1% in Nigeria and Zambia and Morocco. The biggest decline in approval was 17% in Tanzania. Egypt and Saudi Arabia weren\u2019t included among the 134 sampled countries. <\/span><\/p>\n

Here were the results Gallup reported regarding the leadership in the three other countries: China, Russia, and Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2017, globally among the 134 countries, 41% approved of the leadership in Germany. 31% approved of the leadership in China. 30% approved of the leadership in U.S., and 27% approved of the leadership in Russia. The figure regarding Russia had reached its all-time low of 22% in 2014, due to U.S. propaganda for U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s coup in Ukraine ending democracy there in February 2014<\/span><\/a> (it was portrayed instead as a \u2018revolution\u2019 in Ukraine, which \u2018had a mostly democratic and liberal character\u2019<\/span><\/a>), and propaganda against Russia\u2019s response to that U.S. coup, which coup had actually instituted fascism<\/span><\/a> and even outright nazism<\/span><\/a> in Ukraine, though Ukraine\u2019s new leaders were lionized by the U.S. Congress as heros of democracy<\/span><\/a>. Even outright nazis from the new government were honored by Western legislatures<\/span><\/a>. During that same year, 2014, when America pulled off its bloody coup<\/span><\/a> in Ukraine, America\u2019s leadership was globally approved by 45%. In that year, Germany\u2019s leadership was approved by 41%. China\u2019s leadership was approved by 29%. And, as mentioned, Russia\u2019s approval was 22% \u2014 half of America\u2019s. Now that Trump has become the U.S. President, that U.S.\/Russia ratio has declined from 45%\/22% in 2014, to 30%\/27% \u2014 from around two-to-one in America\u2019s favor, to near equality between the two nations\u2019 leaderships\u2019 global approval. Whereas Obama had fooled the world to think that he\u2019s a decent person, Trump doesn\u2019t seem even to care much about what the world-at-large thinks of him.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of\u00a0 They\u2019re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010<\/i><\/span><\/a>,<\/i> and of<\/span> \u00a0<\/i>CHRIST\u2019S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eric Zuesse Gallup surveyed in 134 countries in 2017, and on January 18th reported that: Median approval of U.S. leadership across the 134 countries surveyed in 2017 reached 30%, the lowest point since Gallup began tracking this measure annually in 2007. Disapproval of U.S. leadership increased almost as much as approval declined. The 43% median […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":344448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[115,30,1036,96,1035,3604,535,4687,691,524,523,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-344568","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire","8":"tag-barack-obama","9":"tag-big-brother","10":"tag-breaking-news","11":"tag-cover-up","12":"tag-daily-news","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-global-news","15":"tag-international","16":"tag-polls","17":"tag-russia","18":"tag-ukraine","19":"tag-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}