Leaders of the G7 countries, including Germany’s Angela Merkel, face Donald Trump at their summit, Charlevoix, Canada, June 9, 2018

Liam Kennedy, head of University College Dublin’s The Clinton Institute and co-founder with Scott Lucas of America Unfiltered, joins the Irish Media Network to review the standing of the US in the world.

Less than seven weeks before November’s elections, Liam notes the collapse in positive views of America from residents of 13 allied countries:

The general publics are saying that they have lost faith in the United States and its leadership because of two main reasons: 1) a distrust of Donald Trump as a global leadership; and 2) the way the US has manhandled the pandemic.

Liam discusses part of the collapse of the “liberal world order”, in part because of a rising nationalism with which Trump associates himself: “His base love that he is pushing against this order. They think Trump is trouncing liberalism at home and liberalism abroad.”