With President Donald Trump back in the White House, people in Mexico have a much more negative opinion of the United States than they did during the final year of Joe Biden’s presidency, according to a Pew Research Center survey fielded earlier this year.
This analysis takes a closer look at Mexicans’ attitudes about the U.S. and its president, as well as their views about how both countries are managing their shared border.
Mexicans’ views of the U.S. and its president have soured since last year. Roughly seven-in-ten Mexicans (69%) have an unfavorable view of the U.S., while 29% have a favorable one. Last year, opinions were nearly the opposite: 61% of Mexicans saw the U.S. favorably and 33% saw it unfavorably.
This 32 percentage point drop in favorable views of the U.S. is the steepest in any of the 24 countries we surveyed this year.
When it comes to the U.S. president, the vast majority of Mexican adults (91%) say they have little to no confidence in Trump to do the right thing regarding world affairs. By comparison, a smaller majority of Mexicans (60%) expressed little or no confidence in Biden in 2024.
Mexicans’ lack of confidence in Trump extends to his approach to immigration policy: 87% have little or no confidence in his handling of the issue. Mexicans are more likely than people in any of the 23 other countries we surveyed this year to give Trump negative marks for his handling of immigration policy.
