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Donald Trump Claims People In Europe ‘Like Me’ As Approval Polls Reveal The Truth
Donald Trump has claimed that Europeans ‘like me,’ and now the approval polls have revealed what the people of Europe really think.
The US President’s claim comes after a period of heightened tensions between America and its European allies, following Trump’s recent threat to use military force to annex Greenland, alienating and infuriating NATO allies in the process.
Now, recent approval polls have painted the full picture.
How is Donald Trump’s domestic popularity faring?
Since winning the 2024 US Presidential election, Trump has regularly boasted about being the most popular and successful President in American history, regularly trumpeting his victory in both the electoral college and the popular vote over Democratic candidate and former US Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump won the electoral college 312-226, with every major swing state voting in his favor. In addition to this, the 45th and 47th President also took the popular vote, which he had failed to do in his previous two US Presidential elections against Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden. Trump received 77.3 million votes to Harris’ 75 million.
However, with the recent killings of two American citizens at the hands of ICE and US Border Patrol, Trump’s immigration policies have begun to divide his supporters, with many criticizing the tactics used in ICE raids and the lack of training ICE agents appear to have received (or not received as the case may be), which has led to two innocent American citizens being shot to death in broad daylight.
In addition to the tragic killings of nurse Alex Pretti and mother Renee Good in Minneapolis, last month, Trump has also come under fire for sharing a racist, AI generated video in which Barack and Michelle Obama are depicted as monkeys.
Even some of the President’s most ardent supporters were furious about the footage being shared from his Truth Social account, while Trump attempted to deflect the blame for the video being uploaded onto a White House staffer.
The AI video was eventually deleted, but the lack of apology or acknowledgment of why it was racist by Trump and his administration has caused further friction among the Republican base.
In more bad news domestically for Trump, a recent AP-NORC poll from January found that just four in 10 US adults approved of his performance during his second term, so far.
The poll states that, as of January 8, 2026, 59% of US adults disapprove of the way POTUS is handling the country. On the other hand, 40% do approve of Trump’s performance.
Startlingly for Trump and his followers, given how strong he ran on bolstering the US economy, only 37% of American adults approve of his handling of the economy, with 62% disapproving. Similarly, only 38% approve of his performance related to immigration with 37% approving of his foreign policy and trade negotiations.
Meanwhile, a New York Times/Siena College poll showed that nearly 50% of American voters said that their life was worse off than it was four years ago. The same poll also shows that 64% of voters say Trump has mismanaged efforts to handle the cost of living.
US-Europe relations at lowest point in decades
Throughout the first year of Trump’s second term as President, relationships with Europe have felt fraught.
JD Vance drew criticism from across the continent after his visit to the Munich Security Conference in February, 2025, blasting several key NATO allies, including the United Kingdom, arround issues surrounding culture wars.
Vance was heavily criticized for his comments claiming European democracies were facing ‘civilizational erasure’ due to immigration. The US Vice President also faced scorn for his claims that the most serious threat facing Europe was not Russia but rather a ‘threat from within.’
Unsurprisingly, Vance’s tirade went over about as well as the breaking of wind in a crowded elevator. Coupled with Trump’s attempts to annex Greenland, using not so subtle threats of military force, and it has been a beyond difficult year or so for US-Europe relations.
Trump’s decision to place tariffs on NATO allies has similarly deepened wounds that have been opening across the last 12 months, since the 79-year-old returned to the White House.
Trump blasts Europe’s use of renewable energy
In addition to the aforementioned slights and military threats Trump and his administration have issued towards allies across Europe, the US President also recently took the opportunity to criticize the continent’s usage of renewable energy.
During a White House event on February 11, the 79-year-old signed an executive order which instructed the Department of Defense to prioritize purchasing electricity from coal-fired power plants.
Trump was crowned with the title ‘Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal’ at the ceremony (nope, not just made that up. That is a title that was actually bestowed upon the actual President of the United States of America) and promptly used the time to lash out at the wind turbines of Europe.
“And you know, I was recently there and it’s not recognizable what they’ve done to their beautiful fields and those beautiful, beautiful scenic areas and they put those wind turbines all over the place and they’re chugging, chugging, chugging, not doing a damn thing,” as per UNILAD.
Given that each 300ft wind turbine can produce enough energy to power 1,500 homes and wind power totals roughly a third of total energy production, Trump’s low opinion of them is not one that is widely shared, nor is his claim that ‘every time [a wind turbine] goes around it loses a fortune.’
Trump makes bold claim about his European popularity
Despite consistently castigating the continent and his administration sharing ill-informed statements at major International conferences, Trump recently expressed extreme confidence regarding the European people’s view of him.
Continuing on from his resounding condemnation of renewable energy, Trump said: “But you know who likes me over there? The people like me over there. I can tell you because they know I’m right.”
The President’s bloviating is not new, with Trump regularly trumpeting his own popularity at almost any given opportunity.
But what do the facts actually say?
How popular is Trump in Europe?
While Trump was quick to claim that the people of Europe love him, the statistics tell a very, very different story – and they do not paint a particularly nice picture for the American President.
A recent YouGov poll poured freezing cold water all over Trump’s grandiose statement, showing that, among the people of the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, the US President is only viewed favorably by just 19% of people.
When it comes to Denmark, the country to which Greenland actually belongs, Trump’s popularity is, unsurprisingly, even lower than the 19% of their European neighbors.
In fact, only 4% of the Danish population had a favorable view of Trump, which is to be expected, given the fact Trump has spent most of the last year threatening to annex one of their islands using military force.
So maybe don’t go booking any city breaks to Copenhagen just yet, Donald. Or Rome, Paris, Madrid, Berlin or London.
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