Gallup Poll Says Just 29% of Americans Think Trump is Respected by World Leaders

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite

by David Bixenspan | 12:14 pm, February 10th, 2017

On Friday, Gallup released the results of a new poll about perception of President Donald Trump and the United States in general in the rest of the world. While more Americans believe that the country is seen unfavorably than they have in the last 10 years, the number that jumps out most is how they think Trump is seen. Just 29% of Americans believe other world leaders respect Trump, while 67% believe that said leaders “don’t have much respect” for him. Here’s how Gallup explained the poll’s methodology:

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 1-5, 2017, with a random sample of 1,035 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

The results are almost the complete opposite from where respondents thought Barack Obama stood in a poll conducted at the same point a few weeks into his first term in 2009. In that Gallup poll, 67% (the same percentage that thinks Trump isn’t respected now) thought he was respected by world leaders, with just 20% believing that they “don’t have much respect” for him. In 2001, George W. Bush, just a few weeks removed from an inaugural parade where his limousine was egged, did much better than Trump, with 49% of respondents feeling he’s respected, though 38% thought other leaders “don’t have much respect” for him.

Read more: http://www.mediaite.com/online/gallup-poll-says-just-29-of-americans-think-trump-is-respected-by-world-leaders/

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. OUCH!! SAD!!!

[apnu]

9. Bigly SAD!

[Freethinker65]

2. Too bad they cannot poll the world leaders themselves (anonymously of course)

[kimbutgar]

3. I'm going over to Europe next month and bringing my pink pussy hat

I expect to get comments. Last year on the train in Europe I talked with two Italians who couldn't believe we were considering chump as president. I foolishly said it wouldn't happen, America is not that crazy. Sadly we are.

[LisaM]

5. Actually, our system is whack.

Most American did NOT want him.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Once legitimacy and patriotism is gone

it's not coming back

[PatSeg]

6. That is the hard core base

and most of them probably couldn't name a single foreign leader if their life depended on it.

[NewJeffCT]

8. they know Putin

that's about it, i would guess.

[PatSeg]

13. Oh shoot

I forgot that one!

[mobeau69]

7. 29% seems a little high to me.

Of course we know that about 16% of the population are clinically certifiable lunatics which likely accounts for some of that high rating.

[muriel_volestrangler]

12. The classic value of the crazification factor is 27%

See http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Crazification_factor

so 29% is pretty close.

[mobeau69]

14. Alan Keyes. I'd forgotten all about that crazy mofo.

Didn't he rant and rave about Hillary being a carpet bagger and then move to Chicago to run against O? He didn't even invest in a house there; just rented during his short-lived campaign if my memory serves me correctly.

That's funny stuff by the way.

[tenorly]

10. And most of those who do respect him (or pretend to) are on the Panama Papers list.

[truthisfreedom]

11. 42% didn't vote!

[Hortensis]

15. And 100% of those think they'll still have the ACA,

with all conditions covered for life when Obamacare's gone, no doubt.

[moondust]

16. Could have long-term consequences

as people overseas realize that GWB/Cheney wasn't just a one-off, dangerous aberration but a symptom of a deep-seated derangement affecting the ongoing collective judgment of the U.S. electorate.