U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership

It's a sad state of affairs when we are not respected or trusted by those who were once our staunchest allies.

beerftw said:

Didn't our opinion worldwide fall under bush as well, this leads me to believe our standing worldwide has little to do with the actions of the president to the american people but rather how many kickbacks and special deals he gives to the countries voting on opinion.

The two examples israel and russia, america has backed israel, and trump shown more supportive than his predecessor, and with russia the sentiment waffles back and forth, but their people seem to think trump can atleast nornmalize relations with their country. The rest of the countries however probably see their gravy train running out, like germany being called out over not spending their gdp worth on defense, or the paris climate accord which the us would have fronted most the cost.

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Under Bush the world was behind us until his administration trumped up (no pun intended) false reasons to attack Iraq. This caused unnecessary loss of blood and treasure. This did some real harm to our nation's standing.

lurchadams said:

Under Bush the world was behind us until his administration trumped up (no pun intended) false reasons to attack Iraq. Once he lost credibility, as Trump already has, our standing in the world suffers.

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According to the graph it didn't take long at all for us to rebuild ourselves after Bush. Hopefully the same is true after Trump.

lurchadams said:

Under Bush the world was behind us until his administration trumped up (no pun intended) false reasons to attack Iraq. Once he lost credibility, as Trump already has, our standing in the world suffers.

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He gained support worldwide from 9/11, not from his dealings with those countries. Face it each countries opinion goes with mostly what america will do to benefit them, and it makes it worse that the president is a semi isolationist/protectionist. For other countries benefitting from the us, they see their gravy train ending, anything from aid money to sweetheart defense equipment contracts to things like paris accord to nato spending which would force many countries to up their defense spending which would detract from their welfare programs.

Fenton said:

This nonsense again ?

Right, our image suffers because Trump refused to comply with a Obama erra, non-binding accord that nails the American economy and transfers American wealth while giving our Global competitors a huge advantage over us

We can only be a " world leader " if we keep in place a agenda that led to staggering Democrat losses over the last 6 years and implement his job killing climate change initaives.

Sounds like the" rest of the world " has something in common with the Left in America. They need to get over it, Hillary lost

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I know. Gee surprise? Hardly. All the nations further left of the US don't like Trump. Now that's a revelation. :roll:

Talk about finding what you are looking for.

DamnYankee said:

Of course, the last thing foreigners would be concerned with is "our standing" when they show up at the front door of the White House, hat in hand, wanting America to shell out taxpayer's money for whatever, or perhaps shed some blood in their defense.

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A coalition of nations helped us wage war on Iraq until they realized the Bush administration lied about the danger posed by the Iraq and Saddam. Let us not forget that from time to time, we need the support of allies as well. Under a misguided and dishonest leadership, we're not going to get it.

DamnYankee said:

The world's leftists hate a strong America.

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As well as an independent, national interests first, policy American. They sure hate that.
Much nicer for them when they can get the dumb US guys to pay for their foolishness.

ModerateRN said:

According to the graph it didn't take long at all for us to rebuild ourselves after Bush. Hopefully the same is true after Trump.

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Yes, hopefully.

lurchadams said:

Yep, xenophobic separatists are part of Trump's base. Regardless of what you think, our standing and credibility in the world matters. If there ever is a crisis and we need other nation's assistance or support, we'll have zero credibility.

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No amount of bull**** mischaracterizations will change reality.

beerftw said:

He gained support worldwide from 9/11, not from his dealings with those countries. Face it each countries opinion goes with mostly what america will do to benefit them, and it makes it worse that the president is a semi isolationist/protectionist. For other countries benefitting from the us, they see their gravy train ending, anything from aid money to sweetheart defense equipment contracts to things like paris accord to nato spending which would force many countries to up their defense spending which would detract from their welfare programs.

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Wow, what a cynical way to look at our allies.

lurchadams said:

Under Bush the world was behind us until his administration trumped up (no pun intended) false reasons to attack Iraq. This caused unnecessary loss of blood and treasure. This did some real harm to our nation's standing.

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It's also cost our allies their loss of blood and treasure.

lurchadams said:

A coalition of nations helped us wage war on Iraq until they realized the Bush administration lied about the danger posed by the Iraq and Saddam. Let us not forget that from time to time, we need the support of allies as well. Under a misguided and dishonest leadership, we're not going to get it.

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LOL, yeah, we will see how much "support" we get when they pay for their own defense. LOL

Parrish said:

It's a sad state of affairs when we are not respected or trusted by those who were once our staunchest allies.

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Yep. BO sure did wonders.

lurchadams said:

A coalition of nations helped us wage war on Iraq until they realized the Bush administration lied about the danger posed by the Iraq and Saddam. Let us not forget that from time to time, we need the support of allies as well. Under a misguided and dishonest leadership, we're not going to get it.

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So Europe won't follow the U.S. into the next pointless asinine war? If the U.S. had no allies going into IRAQ then maybe Dubya wouldn't have wasted America's resources in that fiasco.

GOD BLESS TRUMP!

lurchadams said:

Wow, what a cynical way to look at our allies.

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It's an accurate summation. Europeans are outraged that Trump is putting pressure on them to meet the lowly goal of 2% GDP spending on their own defense. They really think that it's America's responsibility to support their lifestyle of sloth and indolence. They believe that it's America's duty to sacrifice the blood of our children so that they don't have to lose any of their own welfare programs. That's why they hate Trump and that's why they hate America. Europeans are fair-weather allies if there ever were.

eohrnberger said:

As well as an independent, national interests first, policy American. They sure hate that.
Much nicer for them when they can get the dumb US guys to pay for their foolishness.

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Yes. Foreign leftists and domestic leftists hate it. Maybe that's part of the reason why the left can't win even one special election? Just a guess.

U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership

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Trump demonstrated all the skills necessary to win the 2016 elections.

But campaigning, and governing are two different skill-sets.

I'd hoped there'd be a more elegant explanation.

But it seems the explanation is simply that the minority of the electorate that put Trump in the White House were sold a bill of goods: "Make America Great Again", "Drain The Swamp" etc.

We went from:
"You're going to have such great healthcare at a tiny fraction of the cost." candidate Trump 16/10/25 from campaign podium

to:

“Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated.” President Trump

"Whut were you thinkin'!?" Dr. Phil

eohrnberger said:

As well as an independent, national interests first, policy American. They sure hate that.
Much nicer for them when they can get the dumb US guys to pay for their foolishness.

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Gee bud, why do you think our allies would be upset over policies which emphasize ****ing them over in favor of playing footsie with Vladimir Putin?

azgreg said:

It's going to take future administrations decades to repair the damage Trump is causing to our international relations. The thought of what more he can do scares the **** out of me and it should scare the **** out of everybody.

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We can exist without tourists. America needs to lead, he is leading.

Europe is turning into a ****hole, they need to fix it, not Trump.

I am a former Republican and changed my party status to Independent as soon as Trump was nominated. I consider Trump to be a National Disgrace--and hope he is out of office as soon as possible. It's clear he was never competent nor qualified to be President. It's still astounding to me that any one person could listen to Trump for 5 minutes and not get that he is just a con man who thrilled the mass's with wall building & mass deportation. There is no one that could have watched any of those debates either during the primary or with Hillary Clinton and walked away believing he won a single won of them--or was in any way qualified to be POTUS. So they voted for the Clown :joke::joke: and he has brought a Yuuuuge circus with him.

Here are a couple of articles regarding the rise of Trump--and it all starts with 3 or more daily hours of right wing hyperbole, half truths and conspiracy theories.

How Trump broke the Conservative media.
http://http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/politics/aarp-ad-says-house-gop-health-care-bill-would-boost-insurance-rates-for-older-americans

How the GOP failed is another great article explaining this.
http://http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/10/the-gop-that-failed-215243

I believe that the people responsible for this disaster should be held accountable-but that won't happen unless people "Turn them off" Michael Savage, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh and every single right wing talk show host that promoted and sold this con man to their audience's. FOX News gave Trump 2 billion in free news coverage during the primaries while ignoring all other GOP candidates. FOX News is paying a heavy price for that now.
http://https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/upshot/measuring-donald-trumps-mammoth-advantage-in-free-media.htmlhttp://http://www.redstate.com/joesquire/2016/05/03/cnn-crushing-fox-news-ratings/
http://http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/24/media/msnbc-rachel-maddow-winning-ratings/index.html


Here is Rush Limbaugh admitting something shocking after a caller was able to sneak onto his program.

ModerateRN said:

But that's exactly what we got from Trump. The man says whatever he thinks will aid him in the moment with no thought about the future. So he is on a daily basis putting his foot in his mouth, but keeps chugging forward.

We, the American people do have ourselves to blame for this mess, We voted for the politicians that got us in the mess we are in today. We believe their lies and do not hold them accountable with our votes when those lies bite us in the ass. We are being blinded by hyper-partisanship to say that everything is now black and white. Congress is being made to look like an eternal struggle for Good vs Evil. The fact you can choose to vote straight ticket on an election ballot highlights the problems we face. No one learns about a candidate and their history, only the letter next to their names matter anymore.

Alienating ourselves from the rest of the world will decreases our political influence. Will decreases of favorable deals we can get (Look at the cost of imports in US compared to many other places in the world and you can see some of the perks of being American). Lose that influence, those deals, will make it a more uphill climb some lower income families have to make.

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We are only alienating ourselves from our global competitors, Nation Sates, leaders and people who think America and its citizens need to be knocked down a peg or two.

The Paris Accord did just that, and Obama commited to it while trying to push a domestic agenda with respect to climate change that would have led to skyrocketing energy cost for poor and middle class

My State challeneged his " Clean power " EPA dictates, and won.

This Nation and its people owe the rest of the world NOTHING, and that includes explanations and or apologies for the choices we make in our democratic process

Massive and disproportionate American defense spending ( we out spent our NATO partners 30 to 1, spending 30 Trillion since 1949 ) kept our Western and Eastern NATO partners safe for decades, and who the **** are they to look down on us for the choices we make in our democracy ?

China signed onto the Paris Accord as did other US competitors because its would have stifled economic growth here while giving China and emerging economies a 5 year headstart over America.
Obama signed it, and yes our last Presidents policies and agenda were overtly anti-American and anti-American people.
Enter in Trump who ran on a platform of " America first " and he won. I wonder why after 8 years of a Progressive dip**** trying in earnest to damage the Nation he swore to protect ?

reinoe said:

It's an accurate summation. Europeans are outraged that Trump is putting pressure on them to meet the lowly goal of 2% GDP spending on their own defense. They really think that it's America's responsibility to support their lifestyle of sloth and indolence. They believe that it's America's duty to sacrifice the blood of our children so that they don't have to lose any of their own welfare programs. That's why they hate Trump and that's why they hate America. Europeans are fair-weather allies if there ever were.

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More Danes than Americans have died in Afghanistan. Also many European countries have compulsory military service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan

Also if you want to argue that Europe spend to little on their military you also consider the fact that USA's and allied's countries military spending are already a lot more than half of the world's military spending. Also just UK's and France's combined military spending are a lot more than Russia's spending on their military.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...expenditure-in-2016-infographic/#72de6da543f3

Also many European countries give a lot more in aid per GDP than USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

While at the same time their are a lot more ways to contribute to the world. Like for example the Good country index show.

https://goodcountry.org/index/results

Instead the reason the world don't respect Trump is a combination of his policies and that he make a fool of himself. That he can't even call the prime minister of Ireland without acting weird.

Donald Trump Just Had The Weirdest Phone Call With Ireland's New Leader | HuffPost

DamnYankee said:

The world's leftists hate a strong America.

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American Leftists hate a strong America, too.

Bergslagstroll said:

More Danes than Americans have died in Afghanistan. Also many European countries have compulsory military service.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan

Also if you want to argue that Europe spend to little on their military you also consider the fact that USA's and allied's countries military spending are already a lot more than half of the world's military spending. Also just UK's and France's combined military spending are a lot more than Russia's spending on their military.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallm...expenditure-in-2016-infographic/#72de6da543f3

Also many European countries give a lot more in aid per GDP than USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_country_donors

While at the same time their are a lot more ways to contribute to the world. Like for example the Good country index show.

https://goodcountry.org/index/results

Instead the reason the world don't respect Trump is a combination of his policies and that he make a fool of himself. That he can't even call the prime minister of Ireland without acting weird.

Donald Trump Just Had The Weirdest Phone Call With Ireland's New Leader | HuffPost

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1. Compulsory military service where they guard European monuments from vandals. And it doesn't matter if there is compulsory military service. Most of them aren't meeting their NATO obligations because they're lazy.

2. Again, it doesn't matter how much is being spent. They're not meeting their NATO obligations. And in JAPAN's case they're literally using the American military as a substitute for their own defense.

3. From your own link...This is a list of countries by spending on development aid. And it doesn't include private donations. Europeans are slothful and indolent. We can add dishonest to the list.

4. They're bitter that Trump isn't promising them unlimited welfare.

azgreg said:

It's going to take future administrations decades to repair the damage Trump is causing to our international relations. The thought of what more he can do scares the **** out of me and it should scare the **** out of everybody.

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No it won't...not a Trump fan, but it won't, the world forgives quickly, especially when it is relieved. Canada was starting to take it on the chin while Conservative leader Stephen Harper (I know, who!?) was at the helm for two terms...like, really, it was awful. A month or two of Justin Trudeau, and we were the bell of the ball again. Good branding, a willingness to work with others, and dreamy good looks, that's all you need to reverse the damage your current hemorrhoid is doing. All the better if you keep up the "Resist" stuff, so that the world doesn't generalize you all...