Mexicans’ opinion of the United States has plummeted since Donald Trump’s second term as U.S. president began in January, according to a Pew Research Center survey published on Friday.
Pew found that 69% of Mexicans surveyed in February and March held an unfavorable view of the U.S., while just 29% had a favorable opinion. That varies significantly from Joe Biden’s last year as U.S. president, when 61% of Mexicans saw the U.S. favorably and 33% saw it unfavorably.
Mexico’s 32 percentage-point drop in favorable views of the U.S. is the steepest decline observed in any of the 24 countries Pew surveyed this year.
Most Mexican adults (91%) said they had little to no confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs, compared to 60% of Mexican respondents [regarding Biden] in 2024.
The survey showed that Mexicans lacked confidence in Trump’s immigration policy, with 87% stating they had little or no confidence in his handling of the issue, a higher proportion than any other country surveyed this year.
As part of the survey, Pew asked whether the governments of the U.S. and Mexico were doing a good or bad job “dealing with the large number of people seeking asylum at the U.S. border with Mexico.”
With Trump back in office, people in Mexico view the U.S. much more negativelyhttps://t.co/H4Y0qpDOrd
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) July 11, 2025
In response, 68% of Mexican respondents said the U.S. government was doing a bad job or a very bad job, a big leap over the 52% of Mexicans who thought the U.S. was doing a bad or very bad job in 2024.
By contrast, 68% of Mexican respondents said the Mexican government was doing a good job, compared to 60% last year.
Globally, the US breaks even
Across the 24 countries surveyed by Pew, 49% of respondents held a favorable overall view of the U.S., while 49% held an unfavorable view.
The U.S. was viewed most positively by Israel, with 83% of respondents seeing it favorably. The least positive assessment was given by Sweden, with 79% of respondents holding a negative view of the country.
In most countries surveyed, adults under 35 held a more positive opinion of the U.S. than those aged 50 and above. Meanwhile, respondents who placed themselves on the ideological right tended to rate the U.S. more favorably than those on the left.
Around half or more of those surveyed in most European countries, plus Australia, Mexico and Canada, viewed democracy in the U.S. as functioning poorly. A third of respondents from Australia, Canada, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Sweden went further, saying U.S. democracy was working very poorly.
The majority of respondents across all countries agreed that there are strong partisan conflicts in the United States.
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As an American living in the US I totally agree with the majority of Mexican people. Many of us here are in mourning for our country.
I agree. I regularly apologize profusely to Mexican officials when I am there, and I mean it.
With 24/7 100% negative press coverage of Trump those numbers don’t surprise me. Not living in the US. Mexicans only know what the media tells them
We up here know the truth. Mexicans know what they need to know. Trump has well earned his negative news and his paltry standing in the U.S.A.
First, negative press coverage of Trump is not 100%. There are many news organizations, podcasters, and reporters who praise Trump!
Secondly, Trump’s language is often artless, crude and very demeaning of organizations he doesn’t like and he prefers to engage in ad hominem attacks against journalists, other politicians, judges, but especially Biden upon whom he’s fixated, and anyone else who disagrees with him. His characterization of immigrants is a blanket demonization. His tariffs have created havoc across the world and his grifting actions of selling Trump labeled gee gaws such as his baseball caps, cologne, a Trump Bible, and his incredible acceptance of the $400 million dollar jet (which he will personally in 2028) from Qatar, which he’s accepted against the clear stipulations of the Emoluments Clause! These are a few reasons he gets negative press!
I hope President Trump finds a way and wins a 3rd term as President of the United States. USA-USA-USA.
Revolution against the tyrant might follow. You both should go elsewhere. Trumps roots are so shallow that he should self-deport to germany.
Germany doesn’t want him. How about South Sudan or El Salvador?
Kenneth, it will never happen. LOL. The Constitution dictates without a doubt that presidents can only serve two terms regardless of when they occur. There are no third terms. The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist has no way unless he becomes a dictator in deed and not only in word has said he wishes.
It’s unreasonable thoughts like this which makes people uncomfortable, if not downright alarmed of what the US is capable doing with trump at the helm with misguided cult members, quit a few suffering from tds, backing him up.
And Kenneth I bet you call yourself a Christian too!
Whatever opens the door for Trump‘s third term opens the door for Obama‘s third term. Wash your hands, there’ll be popcorn for this one. 🍿
I still live here in the US as I have my entire life. And I never felt like I would want to leave the US more than I do now. It is not a country I am proud to live in any longer. In fact, I am ashamed of what the US has become in the eyes of the world. The US dollar weakens more each day globally. The empire is dying. Slowly but surely in every way. So very sad indeed.
I now live full-time in Mexico. It was a great move, and I very much appreciate living under the best government in North America.
I don’t think it matters what Mexicans think of the US President. There is always hate no matter who is in office. An ingrained hate for another country that has festered for decades if not centuries, even while they attempt to mimic alot of their northern neighboors culture. The gentrification riots are just an extension of this. “Gringo go home” has never ever been far from the minds of most people. Yet when the country up north starts sending Mexicans back home and throws some hate in Mexico’s direction, Mexicans are indignant. I don’t get this blatant hypocrisy. Excuse me Mexico, but you have always hated the USA and Americans. Racism runs both ways, and Mexicans are just as racist, if not more then Americans. I have lived here over half of my life, and I expeience it on a daily basis. I am proud to be a Mexican but I shouldn’t have to be ashamed to be an American also because of your hate, and it’s not just because of Trump. Anyone who has lived here long enough would realize its been here forever.
There is the history across more than a century of US abuse and invasions of MX.
I agree the Trump Administration in the United States is doing a very bad job in diplomatic relations with Mexico, with its immoral and inhumane behavior of immigration deportations, though the United States is targeting all undocumented people from other countries as well. The over all treatment of Mexico and its citizens is very poor and disgraceful. There is definite bullying and harassing Mexico’s government and its people. The actions are far from diplomatic. The Trump Administration is not behaving very diplomatically with most other countries either. The US federal administration really has no empathy or compassion for its own citizens either. Financial gain and ultimate power seems to be the goal however that will not unhappen as the United States unravels the Democracy we once knew.
ENVY can be blind and crippling
The situation is much worse than your article states. It’s not a mere 32 percentage-points drop in favorable views, it’s a 92 percentage-points drop (+61% favorable to zero is a drop of 61 percentage-points, plus the 31 percentage-points below zero to 69% unfavorable equals a total drop of 92 percentage points.
The unfavorable rating that Mexicans of the USA have of the USA is not too different from the rating Americans have of the USA. Dictatorships are easy to spot and even easier to hate. It’s simple: does the government exist for the People or do the people exist for the government? Trump thinks the latter. Our Constitution may not be democratic, but it starts: ‘WE THE PEOPLE.’ That excludes dictatorships.
Kenneth:
Your biggest goal in life is to be an object of scorn.
I live in Mexico full time and am a permanent resident. I am so ashamed of the spectacle that Trump has created worldwide, especially his approval of how ICE treats people. Not just immigrants, but children and American citizens. Trump is bordering on being a dictator who uses threats and punishments for people to obey him. I cringe every time I think of those poor men sent to El Salvador without due process and now the detainees held in alligator Alcatraz (put in cages in the worse conditions.) If I do have to be in the states, I can’t wait to cross the border back into Mexico. My home.
I no longer recognize the country of my birth, the USA.
The USA used to lead on many fronts. Now it is becoming fascistic, anti-scientific, and oppressive.
We used to have a conservative opposition party. That has been replaced by a cult of bobbleheads who kowtow in obeisance to whatever hairball the orange mutt coughs up.