Trump is destroying American's image around the word

It might seem like a subjective judgment to say
that Donald Trump is wrecking America’s
image. But a new Pew poll of 37 countries
shows that this is measurable reality:
Perceptions of the United States have collapsed
since President Trump took office.
Pew asked people in countries ranging from
Canada to Brazil to Russia whether they had
favorable views of the US, and whether they had
confidence in the US president to do the right
thing in world affairs — questions they had also
asked of people in these countries back when
Barack Obama was president. The change
between the Obama results and this year’s
Trump results in Pew’s worldwide average are
striking:
When you break down the results by country,
things are even more eye-popping. Confidence
in the American president has collapsed nearly
everywhere:
This negative assessment of Trump, according
to Pew, has directly translated into more
negative views of the United States as a
country.
“In countries where confidence in the U.S.
president fell most, America’s overall image
has also tended to suffer more,” the report
explains. “Since 2002, when Pew Research
Center first asked about America’s image
abroad, favorable opinion of the U.S. has
frequently tracked with confidence in the
country’s president.”
Take the US’s neighbors, Canada and Mexico.
Trump gets the lowest ratings ever recorded in
Pew’s data for any American president in those
two countries — and, under his leadership, the
US has the lowest marks in its history as well.
It’s even worse than the end of the Bush
administration, when the US was mired in Iraq
and the global economy was taking a bad turn:
“For the first time in 35 years, maybe much
longer, a majority of Canadians have an
unfavourable view of the US,” Daniel Dale, the
Toronto Star’s Washington correspondent,
writes.
There are only two exceptions to this trend,
where the US does better under Trump than it
did under Obama: Russia and Israel. In Israel,
confidence in the US president went up by 7
points under Trump; in Russia, it was a
whopping 42.
Obama was widely unpopular in Israel,
particularly after the Iran deal and high-profile
fights over both Iran and the peace process with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Likewise, Obama took a hard line on Russia by
the end of his administration, imposing
crippling sanctions after Moscow invaded
Ukraine. Trump … well, you know what Trump
thinks about Russia.
But aside from those two very specific cases,
the overall pattern is clear: Donald Trump is
tanking America’s image around the world.