–Donald Trump, May 2025
NOT!
Despite EPA guidelines for toilet flushing, it did not take long for Donald Trump to sink America’s reputation and the esteem in which the rest of the world held it deep down into the sewer.
To hear Trump lie about it, he has restored America’s reputation globally. Like everything else that emanates from his hate-filled mouth and tiny hands on his Lies Anti-Social platform, he constantly returns to this theme with an assortment of outrageous falsehoods.
In fact, two recent polls show that America is now reviled by the rest of the world, revolted by Trump and his exceptionally evil and massively incompetent administration. The numbers are truly stunning.
The highly respected Pew Research Center has been taking foreign pulses regarding America for decades. No American President has ever scored as low as Trump, not even Trump 1.0 which, until this recent survey, was far and away the worst international reputational score ever recorded
Pew’s survey of 29 countries shows virtually no confidence in Trump or America to lead world affairs. It also shows that foreigners have little or no confidence in Trump’s ability to handle specific issues, including immigration, the Russia-Ukraine war, U.S.-China relations, global economic problems, conflicts between Israel and its neighbors, and climate change. Overwhelming majorities view him as arrogant, dishonest and dangerous.
Here’s a sampling of Trump’s approval ratings in specific countries:
Canada 22%
UK 37%
Italy 32%
Netherlands 22%
France 22%
Spain 19%
Germany 18%
It’s not only our (former) closest allies who see Trump as a total loser. His numbers are equally dismal in places like India, Japan, South Korea and Australia.
Trump’s grades in the Pew poll make George W. Bush, even after his Iraq misadventure, Hurricane Katrina bungling, and his plunging the global economy into the Great Recession, look like a combination of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
It is stunning that it has taken only a few months for world opinion and trust in America to have dissipated. Trump has frittered away America’s reputation that took 80 years to construct.
Trump’s international poll numbers are likely to sink into single digits by the time his destruction is finished. Americans need to wake up and join our global counterparts in calling Trump out for the destruction he is raining down on the world.
Corrupdate. Trump’s self-celebratory military parade was one of the most ho-hum events that Washington, DC ever had to suffer. It was totally overwhelmed by the horrific news about political assassinations in Minnesota stimulated by years of Trump’s incitements to violence, and more than 2,100 “No Kings” protests throughout the land, and neutralized by his Los Angeles Gestapo tactics involving ICE, the National Guard and U.S. Marines.
The look of military hardware rumbling down Constitution Avenue in front of a supremely bored-looking Trump and a sparse crowd seemed fitting after his many years of disparaging the military—hiding behind alleged bone spurs to evade the draft; disrespecting John McCain; calling soldiers who gave their lives for this country “suckers and losers;” all the way up to his recent Fort Bragg braggadocio where attending soldiers were vetted for their appearance (no fatties allowed) and MAGA propensities.
Dick Hermann
June 20, 2025