claim: president barack obama has "weakened the respect for america abroad."
author: callista gingrich
evidence_1: on several occasions, president obama has sought to apologize for the actions  of his own country when addressing a foreign audience--including seven of the  10 apologies listed below. the president has ... the overall effect of this  approach has been to weaken american power on the world stage rather than  strengthen it.
evidence_2: jun 24, 2015 ... at pew research center, we've tracked global attitudes toward the u.s. president  and american foreign policy since the early years of the george w. bush  administration. our most recent survey of 40 countries from around the world  included a number of questions about president barack obama and his ...
evidence_3: jun 26, 2017 ... according to a new pew research center survey spanning 37 nations, a median  of just 22% has confidence in trump to do the right thing when it comes to  international affairs. this stands in contrast to the final years of barack obama's  presidency, when a median of 64% expressed confidence in trump's ...
evidence_4: jul 9, 2016 ... the rest of the world fell as hard for barack obama as americans did. ... obama's  overseas poll numbers were stratospheric in those early days. ... one possible  reason is the rise of a republican presidential candidate whose comments on  everything from trade to terrorism have rattled the world.
evidence_5: jan 8, 2017 ... a new poll by military times and syracuse university's institute for veterans and  military families reveals a complex relationship between the troops and their  commander in chief.