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Donald Trump has been U.S. president for less than six months but it’s been enough time to send opinions of American leadership plunging.

According to a Pew Research Center public survey of 37 countries, a median of just 22 percent of respondents have confidence in Trump to do the right thing in international matters, compared with 64 per cent at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency. As a country, the U.S.’s favourable rating fell in the same period to 49 per cent from 64 per cent.

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Israel and Russia were the only countries surveyed where the public prefers Trump to Obama.

According to Pew, only 22 per cent of Canadian respondents indicated that they had a lot or some confidence in Donald Trump. At the end of his presidency, Barack Obama enjoyed the trust of 83 per cent of Canadians who responded to the same question. Trump’s presidency also appears to have affected Canadians’ views of the United States. Only 43 per cent of Canadians who participated in the survey expressed very or somewhat favourable views of the U.S., down from 65% when Obama left office.