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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley

Opinion of US has worsened in countries around world in last year, survey shows

Anti-Trump posters on the Mexican side of the border with the US in the state of Baja California
Anti-Trump posters on the Mexican side of the border with the US in the state of Baja California. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty Images

Barely one-third of people polled across 24 countries say they have confidence in Donald Trump as a world leader, with most describing the US president as “arrogant” and “dangerous”, and relatively few as “honest”.

The survey of more than 28,000 people by the Pew Research Center also found that opinions of the US had worsened over the past year in more than half the countries polled – including falls of 20-plus points in Mexico, Sweden, Poland and Canada. In the UK, the figure had dropped from 54% to 50%.

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