Israelis are more than twice as likely (69%) as the average (34%) among citizens of 24 countries, which the Pew Research Center polled, to have at least some faith in U.S. President Donald Trump’s foreign policies. Some 62% had little confidence or none at all.
The only one of the 24 countries that had a higher degree of confidence in the president’s global approach was Nigeria (79%), followed, after Israel, by Kenya (64%), Hungary (53%) and India (52%).
Pew drew on surveys of 28,333 adults from 24 countries, not including the United States, from Jan. 8 until April 26. It conducted interviews over the phone for 13 the countries, face-to-face in 10 (including Israel) and it used a “mixed-mode, probability-based online panel” in Australia.
Trump received the least faith in his foreign policies from adults in Mexico (8%), Sweden (15%), Turkey (16%), Germany (18%) and Spain (19%), per Pew, which stated that men thought more highly than women did of the president’s global strategy in 17 countries.
In the 24 countries, 49% of adults see the United States favorably, and the same amount see it unfavorably. “Overall ratings of the United States have declined in 15 nations since last spring, including drops of 20 percentage points or more in Mexico, Sweden, Poland and Canada,” Pew said.
Israelis saw the United States most favorably (83% positive). Swedes had the opposite view of the United States at the largest rate (79% unfavorable). “In Israel, Nigeria and Turkey, the share with a positive opinion of the United States has increased since last year,” Pew said.
In Israel, 62% of adults “have confidence in Trump to deal with the conflict between Israel and its neighbors,” according to Pew, and 83% of Israelis see Trump as a “strong leader.” (In Nigeria, 90% said that, as did 84% in Argentina and 80% in Hungary.)
Israelis on the political right were much more likely (83%) than those on the left (21%) to have confidence in Trump’s approach to the war, and Israeli Jews (73%) were much likelier than Israeli Arabs (26%) to have that faith in the U.S. president.
“Trump’s most negative ratings on this issue are in Turkey and Mexico, where 87% and 85% have no confidence in him, respectively,” Pew stated.
The U.S. president fared significantly better in his ratings in Israel than former U.S. President Joe Biden did—a difference of 12 percentage points—and Trump also outperformed Biden by a wide margin in Hungary (24 points) and Nigeria (13 points).