What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

To those who were challenging my view that Republican support for Trump was not eroding:

Americans' feelings toward Canada, U.K. plunge to new lows under Trump, new U.S. poll finds

For decades, Canadians and the British have enjoyed sky-high favourability by Americans, who have consistently rated the close allies among the top countries in Gallup's annual World Affairs poll.
This year, however, both nations have seen their images slip to new lows in the U.S.
"Most Americans continue to hold positive opinions of Canada (80 per cent) and Great Britain (76 per cent)," American polling firm Gallup reported in its latest findings on Thursday, "but views of both nations have dropped significantly in the past year and now are the lowest Gallup has measured for each."

Canada's rating fell nine points from last year, and the U.K.'s rating dropped eight points, with researchers attributing the governments' recent strains with the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump as a contributing factor. 

The poll was conducted between Feb. 2 and 16, just before the U.S.-Israel attack on Iran on Feb. 28 and after a year marked by "strong disputes over trade and tariffs, the NATO military alliance, and President Donald Trump's remarks about making Canada the 51st U.S. state."

Tensions between Canada and the U.S. flared again following Carney's widely lauded speech at the Davos conference in January, which drew reignited tariff threats from Trump. 

Similarly, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer's open disagreement with Trump over the war in Iran highlighted a widening rift between Washington and London.

According to Gallup's latest rankings, Japan and Italy have now leapfrogged both Canada and Great Britain into the top spot for "most liked," with 85 per cent and 84 per cent favourability, respectively. Meanwhile, "North Korea and Iran, with 13 per cent favourable ratings, are rated least positively," and Russia (17 per cent) lags just above them. The three countries are the only ones with a rating below 20 per cent.

Gallup reports that Americans' views of China have improved compared to recent years, with "34 per cent of Americans now having a favourable opinion of China, more than double what it was three years ago, when it dropped to a low of 15 per cent." 


Republicans behind drop in favourability 
Canada's favourability rating among Republicans dropped the most over the last year, while opinions of independents are down slightly. Views among Democrats remain slightly unchanged.
Gallup reports that Republican favourability for Canada plunged by 23 points in just a year, from 85 per cent to 62 per cent — the lowest ever recorded by Gallup for Republicans. 
"Currently, 95 per cent of Democrats view Canada positively, similar to the 92 per cent from last year. At least nine in 10 Democrats have rated Canada favourably since 2011," the researchers noted. 

A similar trend is visible in attitudes toward Great Britain. Republicans' ratings nosedived, while Democrats' views dipped only slightly.
"Republicans' opinions of Great Britain have also dropped steeply in the past year, from 84 per cent to 64 per cent, establishing a new low by 18 percentage points," said the report.
Gallup suggests these drops are "especially prominent among Republicans, who are inclined to back the U.S. as it is being governed by a president from their own party."


The decline marks the first time that neither Canada nor Great Britain, alongside Australia, would rank at the top in Gallup's annual measures since 2001.

Among the 21 countries measured this year, Democrats rated almost every other country more positively than Republicans, except for Israel, Russia, Saudi Arabia and North Korea.

Methodology

Gallup's findings are drawn from a national survey, conducted by ReconMR, between Feb. 2 and 16. The poll consisted of telephone interviews with a random sample of 1,001 adults, aged 18 and older, from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. This is to ensure the results reflect the views of the entire adult U.S. population.

Eighty per cent of interviews were conducted by cellphone and 20 per cent by landline. Telephone numbers were selected randomly.
According to the study, "the margin of sampling error is plus-minus 4 percentage points at the 95 per cent confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting."

[Tonitrus]

To those who were challenging my view that Republican support for Trump was not eroding:

Doesn't really support your premise.

The only thing that polling has shown me is that Republicans more and more dislike "furriners".  So, no surprises.

[viper37]

To those who were challenging my view that Republican support for Trump was not eroding:

Doesn't really support your premise.

The only thing that polling has shown me is that Republicans more and more dislike "furriners".  So, no surprises.

They follow where Trump leads. There is no break within MAGA.

[Tonitrus]

Then your premise is still flawed...if the suggestion from the polling is that "American approval of the UK/Canada is dropping because of Trump/MAGA", then one must conclude that Trump hates the UK/Canada...then how are they still 60%+ approval from Republicans, and not ~zero?

Edit:  I would add that I am not saying that I disagree with your premise of "Republican support for Trump was not eroding"...I am contending that the evidence/polling you posted is a non sequitur.

[The Brain]

There's also the brazen cheating of the Canadian Olympic curling team.

[garbon]

There's also the brazen cheating of the Canadian Olympic curling team.

And the shocking display of foul temper.

[Tonitrus]

If anything is disturbing in that polling, it is the Democrats extreme softening trend towards the PRC thugs.* 

(*though this is of those overly vague polls where you cannot be sure if it distinguishes people/culture from governments)

[crazy canuck]

There was a question about what North American Evangelicals believe in, well here is some clips from Trump's evangelical spiritual advisor.  Keep this in mind the next time you hear an American talk about Muslim religious fanaticism.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DVlCPH-jHtE/?igsh=MWJlNXRjeTJteHp6Mg==

[Oexmelin]

If you haven't seen the clips floating around of the two DOGE bros's testimony about their cancelling of 97% of the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities, it's worth it.

[crazy canuck]

If you haven't seen the clips floating around of the two DOGE bros's testimony about their cancelling of 97% of the funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities, it's worth it.

Yeah, I thought about posting that too. The ignorance is astounding.

[Grey Fox]

Is it ignorance or really just generalized nonchalance? Nothing matters but the approval of the machine so let's asks the machine what to do.

[crazy canuck]

A bit of column A and a bit from column B.  Listen to how one of them describes what the Holocaust was.  And how they were not able to define what DEI was, although they were removing funding for being DEI related.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

These, I believe, are the videos being referenced.