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Losing Friends and Unfavorably Influencing People (US Edition)

Unfortunately, too many Americans will consider this a feature, not a bug, of the Trump Presidency. They don't care about whut them damn furriners think of us. In fact, if if those furriners (especially those _Europeans) think poorly of us, that proves that we, the Exceptional United States, are doing the right thing, because they're all a bunch of socialist atheist commies who are going to be eaten by Muslims anyway._

They also don't worry about the US pulling back from multilateral leadership. We can go it alone, they cry! We have the Deal-inator running things! We have the world's biggest military (by far), they point out, and it's getting still bigger, so nobody will dare mess with us!

As long as being unpopular with others is a badge of pride with enough people, I don't expect things to get much better.




U.S. Image Suffers as Publics Around World Question Trump’s Leadership
President Trump and many of his key policies are broadly unpopular around the globe, and ratings for the U.S. have declined steeply in many nations.

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3 thoughts on “Losing Friends and Unfavorably Influencing People (US Edition)”

  1. In one sense, it doesn't matter.

    "Respondents were asked whether, now that Trump is president, they think relations between their country and the U.S. will improve over the next few years, get worse, or stay about the same.

    "In many countries, a majority or plurality believes relations will remain about the same."

    Perhaps it's because of the other countries' high regard for us Americans as a people, but no one anticipates any policy changes as a result of the rise of Trump. The G7 won't suddenly shrink and become the G6, even when climate change is on the agenda. To my knowledge, no country has recalled its ambassador from Washington in a huff since January 20. No move has been made by NATO to appoint a non-American to the top of the NATO military command structure.

    Basically, if you think that Trump exemplifies bad behavior, he's successfully getting away with bad behavior.

    Incidentally, the same applies in the domestic sphere. Many complain that Trump is doing terrible things, some are saying that Trump should be impeached, but there are very few who are audibly uttering the words "I believe Mike Pence should be President of the United States" (probably because Pence, unlike Trump, has policies – and people don't like them). In fact, I believe that it is in the Democratic leadership's interest for Trump to remain in office, on the hope that his presence will deliver millions of votes for the Democrats in the 2018 mid term elections and the 2020 Presidential election.

  2. The note about how relations with the US won't change was interesting and the element out of keeping with the other gloom and doom.

    I was reading, separately today that the broad traffic of foreign relations between countries is now currently backed up at a long stop light in the US by the Trump Administration's dearth of appointees to the State Dept. All the sub-undersecretaries and deputy attache positions are currently unfilled.

    So maybe nothing will change because there are no formal channels by which to change it …

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