The 4 most brutal numbers in that poll showing the world hates Trump
1. The world distrusts Trump more than even Vladimir Putin
Plenty of folks have pointed to the finding that Russia is one of the few countries that actually likes Trump — a 53 percent majority there has confidence in Trump to do the right thing on the world stage — but another Putin-related finding is even more telling. According to the poll, significantly more of the people surveyed in those 37 countries distrust Trump than distrust Putin.
2. In each of allied countries, 9 out of 10 view Trump as "arrogant," 7 in 10 as "dangerous"
Perhaps the most remarkable finding on that front is that about 9 out of 10 people in many of these countries describe Trump as “arrogant,” and about 7 in 10 in many of them label him “dangerous.” In each of Canada, Mexico, Spain, France, Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Australia, at least 89 percent describe Trump as arrogant, while at least 69 percent describe him as dangerous. Many of these countries, again, are chief allies and leaders of the developed world.
3. Even nationalists don't love Trump
One of the biggest narratives in Europe recently has been whether the strain of populism and nationalism that Trump and Brexit embodied would catch on in other countries. Signals are mixed on that front. But the agendas of these nationalist movements certainly mirror Trump's, as The Washington Post's Ishaan Tharoor has written. And yet the Pew study actually suggests that those right-wing populists in Europe aren't even on the Trump Train.
4. Trump's reputation is already worse than George W. Bush's -- at the depths of his presidency
By the end of George W. Bush's presidency, disapproval of the Iraq War had sullied the United States's reputation in Europe and across the world. And yet even at the beginning of his presidency, Trump is already in marginally worse shape than Bush ever was — before any international crises.
