President Trump has spent considerable energy lambasting the United Nations, an institution the United States helped create 80 years ago and has shaped ever since. He has derided it as an “unelected, unaccountable, global bureaucracy,” and little more than “a talking shop.”
American public support for multilateral cooperation in 2026 exceeds that of Western Europe, where it stands at 61%. Despite President Trump’s attacks on the UN, 62% of Americans say they trust the institution—eight percentage points more than last year—while only 30% claim to distrust it. Nearly half of American respondents, 46%, say they comfortable with the UN playing a leading role on the world stage. Only 21% say they are uncomfortable.
The message to President Trump is clear. For most of the last 80 years, America has acted multilaterally, even during its unipolar moment. Americans do not want the U.S. to act unilaterally in an increasingly multipolar era. They want their country to practice the politics of consensus building rather than coercion.
As the poll commissioned by the Rockefeller Foundation found, more than half of American respondents, 53%, would support their president publicly endorsing these principles of cooperation. This finding suggests that America is not a nation committed to an “America first and America only” ideology, but a nation with a strong sense of the enduring values that bind it to the wider world.
America’s appeal as global leader, the same poll found, has diminished. Only 39% of the respondents worldwide are comfortable with the U.S. playing a leading role on the world stage. And 34% of the respondents across the globe regard the U.S. as a major threat to their own countries. On that grim metric, Russia scored even higher, at higher 42%. China, surprisingly, fared better at 30%.
Several middle powers were viewed more favorably by respondents as potential global leaders: Japan (58%), Australia (55%), the United Kingdom (54%), Germany, Spain, and Italy (all 53%), France (51%) and South Korea (42%).
Surveys asking people which country they would prefer to live in have consistently put America in the lead. According to Gallup data, 24% of respondents in 2009 named America as their preferred new home. By 2025, that preference had shrunk to a mere 15%.
Renewing American leadership
Americans need to convey these convictions more clearly and widely. Under pressure from an affordability crisis at home and military overreach abroad, Americans may not any longer be prepared to “bear any burden or pay any price.”
But the values that underpin America are still embraced by a majority of its people. This suggests that America still has what it takes to resume the global leadership that is needed more than ever in our turbulent world.
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