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[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

It’s been a year since Donald Trump became president, and by International Fellowship of Punditry bylaws I am required to have a take. The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has many thoughts on this topic, but for today let’s focus on foreign policy. And my take is simple: President Trump has failed candidate Trump bigly.

Let’s recall what Trump said about President Barack Obama and his foreign policy back in October 2016:

Donald Trump has claimed that Barack Obama and the US are loathed around the world, driving countries such as the Philippines into the arms of its adversaries.

“The world hates our president,” Trump said Friday at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. “The world hates us. You saw what happened with the Philippines after years and years and years; they’re now looking to Russia and China, because they don’t feel good about the weak America.”

Trump’s claim that the world hated Obama was https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/30/barack-obama-has-made-america-great-again/ (a flat-out lie), but let’s put that to one side. The excerpt shows that Trump thinks it is a bad thing if the rest of the world hates the American president. He does not want countries looking to Russia or China.

The problem is that all the data suggest that America is far closer to Trump’s description now than when Obama was president.

Last week, Gallup published its global survey findings. They’re really bad:

One year into Donald Trump’s presidency, the image of U.S. leadership is weaker worldwide than it was under his two predecessors. Median approval of U.S. leadership across 134 countries and areas stands at a new low of 30%, according to a new Gallup report.

The most recent approval rating, based on Gallup World Poll surveys conducted between March and November last year, is down 18 percentage points from the 48% approval rating in the last year of President Barack Obama’s administration, and is four points lower than the previous low of 34% in the last year of President George W. Bush’s administration….

Regionally, the image of U.S. leadership suffered most in the Americas, where approval ratings dropped to a new low. The median of 24% who approve of U.S. leadership in the region now stands at about half of what it was in the last year of the Obama administration (49%).

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

You know that old saying: When you marry for money, you earn every cent.

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]

 

[Michael Scally MD]