Majorities of US citizens disapprove of the way President Trump is handling U.S. foreign policy and about half think the country's global standing will deteriorate during the next year, according to a new poll conducted by Associated Press news agency and NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
The poll finds 34 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job as president, compared with 65 percent who disapprove.
The survey results show that there is a serious polarization among the people in the United States. While 76 percent of Republicans approve, just 8 percent of Democrats say the same.
Americans support Trump's decision to withdraw from Syria. 39 percent of Americans think US troops should withdraw from Syria, while 35 percent consider the opposite.
Richard Cleaveland, a 65-year-old truck driver from Ogden, Utah, disagrees and wholeheartedly backs Trump and his foreign policy.
"I think it's time for our troops to come home from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria," said Cleaveland. "I lost a lot of good friends when I was in Vietnam. I think that was a stupid war too."
"Our military shouldn't be the world's police," said Robert Granger, a 44-year old sales representative from Bristol, Tennessee. "We don't belong in all of these other countries. We need to pull our troops home and let the other countries take care of themselves."
Republicans also think the nation's global standing and relationships with other countries will improve or stay the same during the next year. Democrats largely expect U.S. relations with other nations will worsen.
Forty-four percent of Republicans say the nation's standing in the world will improve and another 35 percent say it won't change. By comparison, 77 percent of Democrats think the country's global standing will get worse. (ILKHA)