In 2009 Barack Obama's inauguration triggered strong enthusiasm across Germany, with a Pew Research Center poll reporting 93% of Germans believed he would 'do the right thing regarding world affairs.' By 2016, 86% still trusted Obama, and the United States was seen as a reliable partner despite the Edward Snowden leaks. After Donald Trump's 2016 victory German trust in the U.S. presidency collapsed, with about 10% trusting him near the end of his first term and little improvement later. By mid-last year 73% judged U.S.–German relations under Trump as 'bad,' and an Allensbach poll found two-thirds view the U.S. as a major threat to world peace.
"After the tensions of the George W. Bush era, the new US president's approval ratings among Germans skyrocketed. According to a Pew Research Center survey, 93% of Germans believed Obama would "do the right thing regarding world affairs." That remains a record to this day. Even in 2016, at the end of his second term, an extraordinary 86% of Germans still trusted Obama."
"German trust in the US president plummeted to a fraction of what it had been. A poll conducted towards the end of his first term found that only about 10% of respondents still trusted him. According to a new poll by the Allensbach Institute, a German market research institute, two-thirds of Germans currently see the US as "one of the greatest threats to world peace" alongside Russia and China."
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