Mod: It is kind of nice to have a president that can travel overseas and not embarrass our country. New polling shows President Biden has quickly restored America's stature in the eyes of the world (Daily Koslink): So now that we have a president who doesn’t pose an existential threat to NATO, respects climate change accords, takes worldwide pandemics seriously and won’t flatter dictators, threaten to nuke hurricanes, or otherwise make the world’s foremost democracy look like King Kong on a four-year Jägermeister-and-bath-salts bender, the rest of the world likes us better.
Go figure.
And all it took was a Trumpectomy (though, for some reason, plenty of people not only want to keep the tumor, they also want to display it in a jar on the mantel under a garish array of klieg lights).
According to a recent Pew Research Center global survey, the world is coming back around to liking us again, just in time for Joe Biden’s first international trip as president.
The Washington Post: "
Trust in the U.S. president fell to historic lows in most countries surveyed during Donald Trump’s presidency, according to Pew ... Under Biden, it has soared. In the 12 countries surveyed both this year and last, a median of 75 percent of respondents expressed confidence in Biden to “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” Pew found, compared with 17 percent for Trump last year. Sixty-two percent of respondents now have a favorable view of the United States vs. 34 percent at the end of Trump’s presidency."You mean the rest of the world sees
Vladimir Putin as a thug who poisons people and not “a leader—far more than (
Obama) has been a leader”? And they didn’t believe that
North Korea was now eliminated as a threat because
Kim Jong-Un let the squishy wad of id who was cosplaying as our president have extra sprinkles on his ice cream at their summit dinner? You don’t say.
But be patient with the new guy, folks. Undoing all that Trumpian damage may take some time.
Mod: More at the link.
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