But I believe because of Donald Trump and his war in Iran, American popularity will descend to depths it has not seen this century and may never recover to the median levels that we saw with Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. Forget Barack Obama numbers – they're out of reach. Confidence in Trump's ability to navigate global affairs was already around 30-40% before the invasion of Iran. That will be the new ceiling. "The world is watching," Trump said in his White House address on Wednesday. Yes, it is.
Our allies – and our adversaries – have long been confounded by the eternal see-saw of American presidential politics, where conservatives are replaced by liberals who are replaced by conservatives, and on and on. Biden's confident assertion after his election that "America was back," and that we were once again a reliable ally, was met by our friends with the question: "For how long?" It was a fair question. The assumption of the Biden administration was that Trump was the authoritarian anomaly, bookended by two liberal internationalists. It turns out that Biden may be the aberration…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/05/american-soft-power-iran-war
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