Zelenskyy sees post-Trump polling bump. What about other world leaders?
Global News
Leaders suffering recent polling slumps have seen their popularity rebound since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to recent polls.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on world leaders have given many of them a boost in their approval ratings, as allies contend with what experts say is an “external threat” posed by the Trump administration.
Leaders who were suffering polling slumps in recent months and years — including outgoing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his incumbent Liberal Party, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — have seen their popularity rebound since Trump returned to the White House in January, according to recent polls.
“Donald Trump is making other countries rally around their leaders in opposition,” said Matthew Lebo, a political science professor at Western University.
“He’s having the opposite effect of what he seems to want, which is to undermine people like Trudeau and Zelenskyy.”
Although Zelenskyy has long enjoyed support from a majority of Ukrainians, his approval rating has fallen since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, from over 80 per cent at that time to 60 per cent last November, according to Gallup. Other polls conducted in early 2025 put Zelenskyy below 60 per cent.
Trump has appeared to stop that slide.
A poll released last week by the Kyiv International Institute for Sociology showed between Feb. 14 and March 3 — a time period that saw Trump call Zelenskyy a “dictator” and culminated in the disastrous Oval Office meeting between the two leaders — Zelenskyy’s trustworthiness among Ukrainians rose from 57 per cent to 67 per cent.
Another poll of European leaders by the Ukrainian Rating Group showed a similar jump for Zelenskyy in late February.
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