In his first 100 days in the White House, US President Donald Trump has managed to undermine Czechs' trust in the US, and as many as 58 percent of Czechs, according to a new poll for the online daily Novinky.cz, are beginning to believe that Trump's foreign policy is a threat to the world, and 64 percent negatively assess the steps of "the new American demonstration as chaos."
In a survey by the Czech Center for Public Opinion Research, 85 percent of Czechs assessed that the US is guided only by its hegemonic and economic interests in foreign policy, while 75 percent of respondents pointed out that the US does not care at all about what the rest of the world thinks.
Only 34 percent of Czechs still claim that the US defends democracy, freedoms and human rights, and only 36 percent still think that Trump wants a stable world order and peace, while only 28 percent of Czechs still see the US as an ally.
For the Czechs, Poland is now the most reliable ally, according to 72 percent of respondents, followed by Germany (64 percent), France (60 percent), Scandinavian countries (58 percent), and Great Britain (57 percent), while Slovakia, with Prime Minister Robert Fico, although previously always at the top of the list of allies, is now behind them with 54 percent of respondents' votes.
Hungary fared even worse, with only 30 percent of Czechs viewing it as an ally, while 47 percent believe it is a partner out of necessity, as does Trump's USA, which is a partner because it has no other choice for 49 percent of respondents.
Although former Czech President Vaclav Klaus is trying to convince Czechs that all the steps of the new American president are a brilliantly thought-out negotiating strategy, even in the case of tariffs, 75 percent of Czechs do not believe this and reject Trump's steps, while only 11 percent think that the introduction of tariffs, especially on European allies, is a good step.
Czech populists, the strongest opposition party ANO of former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, and radical nationalists, who welcomed Trump's arrival in the White House with euphoria in the hope that they would easily come to power on the wings of the MAGA ideology, are trying to reduce the damage that their previous support for Trump may cause them in the eyes of voters after Trump's decisions on tariffs.
"I don't know what he wants. What he's doing is completely crazy and bad. When he said he didn't expect such a reaction from the financial markets, I'm afraid he doesn't understand it at all. He'll cause inflation, the stock markets are falling, no one understands what he wants. And his first friend Elon Musk is hoping for a duty-free zone between Europe and the US. That's a madhouse," criticized customs officials former Prime Minister Andrej Babiš, who until a few days ago proudly labeled himself a "Trumpist" and wore a MAGA red baseball cap with only the words "strong Czech Republic" written on it.
Babiš, whose support for Trump since the chaos over tariffs has cost him a full five percent of voter support according to the latest polls, although he still has every chance of winning the fall parliamentary elections, is now stating that the only reason he supports Trump is because he promised to negotiate peace in Ukraine.
"The only thing I have from Trump is the red color on his cap. For me, the Czech Republic is in the right place. We supported him because he promised to end the war. But he is unsuccessful there too. Although better than if Kamala Harris had been elected, then there would be no chance of the war ending," Babiš told Novinky.cz these days.
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