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Originally Posted by goofyballer
Your emotional meltdown here aside, there are simple facts available to us:
- tourism is already down in Trump's presidency
- the people who are coming here are being harassed at the border and are thus becoming more unlikely to return
- tourism is a huge industry in the United States and that's kinda bad for business
I think I can spin the US having a bad public image into a positive.
If you look at
Pew's historic favorability %s among various countries, in 2003 it's:
France 42%
Germany 45%
UK 70%
UK ended up following USA into Iraq whereas France and Germany didn't join. The politicians of other countries will end up doing whatever their own people want since they have a duty to get reelected. If Trump's favorability in other countries is 15% and he wages some joke war then he will get no allies. Since he gets no allies then it reduces the odds of him waging that war in the first place. Or at least in theory as his stupidity might not know any bounds. Just bullying some other country pointlessly will lead the US into isolationism, see Russia.
Maybe a little too simplistic way to look at it, idk. Also not really a positive if you're into stuff like tanks, drones, oil and murder, or what is commonly known as a republican.
Edit: not seeing updated Pew numbers but let's not forget this G20 poll which circled during election time:
Last edited by lenC; 02-27-2017 at 07:43 PM.