President Trump inspires less confidence among the public than Chinese President Xi Jinping or Russian President Vladimir Putin, an international poll by the Pew Research Center published on Monday showed, CNBC informed.
The survey consisted of 25 countries and said that only 27 percent of the respondents, on average, have confidence in Donald Trump to “do the right thing regarding world affairs.”
For comparison, 52 percent of the respondents answered that they had confidence in the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to “do the right thing” in world affairs. French President Emmanuel Macron gained 46 percent and after him is the Chinese President Xi Jinping with 34 percent.
Thirty percent of the respondents trusted Russian President Vladimir Putin to do the right thing with Trump behind him with 27 percent.
The non-partisan, Washington-based think tank Pew polled 26,112 respondents in 25 countries from mid-May to mid-August. It said its latest poll showed that international citizens have voiced “significant concerns about America’s role in world affairs.”
“Large majorities say the U.S. doesn’t consider the interests of countries like theirs when making foreign policy decisions,” Pew said in its report.
“Many believe the U.S. is doing less to help solve major global challenges than it once did. And there are signs that American soft power is waning as well: While the U.S. maintains its reputation for respecting individual liberty, fewer believe this than a decade ago,” Pew remarked.
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