As Donald Trump heads into his big G20 summit at the end of the week, he has united both U.S. and world opinion against him. In a Pew Research poll measuring German Chancellor Angela Merkel against Trump, a majority of Americans and most G20 member nations have more confidence in Merkel's ability to handle world affairs. Here's Pew:
In the United States, more people have confidence in Merkel than in their own leader (56% to 46%). However, there is a sharp partisan divide in the U.S. on this question. Democrats trust Merkel (64% confidence) more than Trump (16%). Republicans, on the other hand, have much more faith in Trump (89%) than the German leader (50%). [...]
Across the majority of the G20 nations, people prefer Merkel to Trump on world affairs, according to the survey, which examines attitudes in 37 nations, including in 17 of the 19 members of the G20. [...]
In seven G20 countries – Germany, France, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan and Australia – two-thirds or more of the public say they have confidence in Merkel, compared with roughly three-in-ten or fewer who have confidence in Trump. And while around four-in-ten or fewer have confidence in Merkel in Italy, Brazil and Mexico, support for her is still greater than it is for Trump in these G20 member nations.
Among the G20 member nations surveyed, the residents of just two countries had "substantially more" confidence in Trump: India and Russia. Go figure.