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International views of the U.S. and its president are increasingly correlated

Pew Research Center · Jonathan Schulman · last updated

During Joe Biden’s presidency, as well as during Trump’s first term, there was a much weaker relationship between views of the U.S. and confidence in its president.

In all 36 countries surveyed by Pew Research Center this year, views of the United States are more positive among people who have confidence in President Donald Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs– and more negative among those who lack confidence in him. But this close relationship between views of the U.S. and its president hasn’t always been the case.

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