So we often hear from liberals that Trump is Satan's incarnation and the most unpopular politician to ever walk to globe. In sharp contrast of course to people like Trudeau and Merkel who are a blessing upon us mere mortals.
But really - how does Trump compare to other world leaders and his predecessors?
Let's look at predecessors first. We are 18 months into the Trump presidency. At the moment, Gallup gives Trump a 45% approval rating, where we can compare him to Obama in June 2010. So where was Obama 18 months into his presidency? Well Gallup has this handy website where you can check archives, and we can scroll down to week 2010 Jun 21-27, where we find Obama's approval ratings to be ..... 45%. So there's no practical difference between public approval ratings of Obama and of Trump.
Unfortunately the Canadians are not masters of polling, with Global only doing approval opinion polls once per quarter. But we can see that universally-loved Trudeau's current approval rating is 44%, just below that of Trump.
In France Superman Macron enjoys an approval rating of sky-high 30%, while Theresa May sits on top of a very satisfied populace with about 29-34% of people showing their love for Dear Leader. The bicycle-loving environmentalist and Lover of the World Mark Rutte of Netherlands relishes a tsunami of applause whenever he goes out into the public, with an unforeseen 35% approval rating. Theresa May also blows Trump out of the water when it comes to party support - a humongous 70%! of Conservatives support her, compared to the measly 90% that Trump holds.
So what can we conclude from these numbers? Can we indeed conclude that the Western public is far more open to luvvies like Macron and Trudeau? Where would Clinton be sitting at this point in her presidency?
It seems rather weird that the most hated orange (perhaps after Annoying Orange - or not?) is by far the most popular politician anywhere in the Western world at the moment, no? What do you think?
In my opinion, Trump's initial disapproval only merely stems from a hate campaign before his presidency even began, that was far more extensive than for any other previous President, and only now people are waking up to who Trump is. Moreover, this level of partisanship / apathy is the new norm, and no politician will be able to achieve approval ratings anywhere close to two thirds et al., with Europe especially so fragmented between the left, centre, centre right and the right that approval of the majority is an impossible feat.
(Decided to create a new thread to get opinions on why Trump is apparently so unpopular after seeing a post criticising him as the most hated politician)
