US will pay
BY JAMES GIBNEY
BLOOMBERG
... Only 22 percent of .. 40,000 respondents from 37 countries had confidence in Trump ... 64 percent felt that way about Barack Obama at the end of his presidency ...
Nine .. of 10 countries posting the biggest drops .. were US .. allies ...
... being seen as unreliable and “arrogant, intolerant and dangerous” — three qualities attributed to Trump by a .. majority of .. respondents — .. can have .. consequences. If .. leaders know that their publics dislike, distrust and disrespect Trump, they have .. incentive to .. spurn US .. entreaties.
Consider .. French President Emmanuel Macron, .. British Prime Minister Theresa May and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ... Macron got domestic mileage out of snubbing Trump .. at last month’s NATO summit. Concern over public protests in the United Kingdom .. gives May good reason to keep her distance. Merkel .. was recently attacked by .. Martin Schulz for not standing up to an “erratic” Trump, notwithstanding her .. declaration that the era of reliable relations with the US “are to some extent over” ...
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2017/07/02/commentary/world-commentary/u-s-will-pay-trumps-global-unpopularity/#.WVkW8yMrK-U