This doesn't surprise me much. Republicans only watch Fox Noise, and therefore get only what they want to hear, regardless of what reality may be.

The two per cent of Democrats that seem to think the world respects Trump are severely deluded, and must be in some out-of-the-way area where all media leans right, and being a Democrat only means you don't beat your kid every time he says sex before marriage is no sin.

Similarly, the 85 per cent of Republicans who thought the rest of the world did NOT respect Obama in 2016 are just as deluded. Europe had the same attitude toward Obama in 2016 as they did toward Bill Clinton in 2000--"if you guys are so stupid as to limit a President like that to two terms, can WE have him when you're done?"

The perceptions of how the USA rates in the world's eyes, on the other hand, seem exaggerated to me. The people of the world are not stupid, and they do not watch Fox Noise. I travel a LOT, and I can tell you that while they think Trumppence is a disastrous aberration, they don't think that we as a nation have suddenly become either paradise on earth or hell on earth (depending on which party you ask). A LOT of people travel to the USA, and the ones that do (at least the ones I talk to, and that's a LOT), haven't seen any huge changes that have made them change their perception of us as a country or a people in the last two years.