Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:21 pm
Donald Trump is constantly throwing shade on America’s image around the world, and in his dystopian fantasy world, everything is to be blamed on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. However, his lies are exposed by a new Gallup poll which shows that,
“For the third consecutive year, the leadership of the U.S. earns the highest approval ratings among five major global powers.”
To get more stories like this, subscribe to our newsletter The Daily.
As Gallup reports,
“Since President Barack Obama took office in 2009, the image of the U.S. has been relatively strong worldwide. Approval ratings of U.S. leadership have not yet returned to the high levels observed when he first took office (49%), but in most years, they have been higher than the ratings for other major global powers — several of whom have had similar continuity in their leadership.”
The other four countries are Russia, China, Germany, and the European Union. Their ranks come out as follows:
United States – 45
Germany – 43
European Union – 39
China – 30
Russia – 24
All this is at odds with Donald Trump’s rhetoric. According to Trump, this should be impossible. The Republican nominee praises Russian strongman Vladimir Putin as often as he condemns our own leadership, saying at one point of Putin,
“He’s running his country, and at least he’s a leader, unlike what we have in this country…”
Trump is right about this, at least: it is to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others of Obama’s appointees, that we can trace the responsibility for America’s global image.
As in so many things, Trump’s words are at odds with fact, and his anti-American rhetoric exposed as the lie it is. Trump says he wants to make America great again, but he can’t do that while working for a foreign government against his own.
Hrafnkell Haraldsson, a social liberal with leanings toward centrist politics has degrees in history and philosophy. His interests include, besides history and philosophy, human rights issues, freedom of choice, religion, and the precarious dichotomy of freedom of speech and intolerance. He brings a slightly different perspective to his writing, being that he is neither a follower of an Abrahamic faith nor an atheist but a polytheist, a modern-day Heathen who follows the customs and traditions of his Norse ancestors. He maintains his own blog, A Heathen’s Day, which deals with Heathen and Pagan matters, and Mos Maiorum Foundation www.mosmaiorum.org, dedicated to ethnic religion. He has also contributed to NewsJunkiePost, GodsOwnParty and Pagan+Politics.
