73% of Spaniards consider Trump a threat to democracy.

Donald Trump has become a toxic political partner in the eyes of the Spanish people. No less than 80% of those surveyed by Ipsos disapprove of his performance, and only 12% approve. The magnitude of the rejection of the American president's policies even extends to Vox voters, as up to 40% of them also disapprove of his performance.

Among the rest of the electorate, the scale of the rejection reaches an unprecedented consensus. It's not just that more than 90% of PSOE and Sumar voters disapprove of Trump's management. Nearly 80% of Partido Popular voters also disapprove of the White House's policy. Given these figures, it should come as no surprise that prominent Popular Party leaders are distancing themselves from the American president.

More than 50% see China as a “more reliable trading partner” than the United States.

And perceptions don't improve when we get into the details. For example, if we assess Donald Trump's democratic credibility, the result is devastating: 73% of Spaniards consider the American president a threat to democracy. Once again, there is an unprecedented consensus between the left and the center-right. Of course, perceptions are more acute among PSOE and Sumar voters, as 90% of them consider Trump a danger to the democratic system. But this perception is also shared by almost 70% of the popular electorate.

Among far-right voters alone, this percentage drops to 29%, while 61% of them perceive no threat in the US president's policies; an opinion as predictable as it is prescient. The problem is that nearly 30% of those under 34 and 35% of those who declare "totally insufficient" income also see no risk in the measures adopted by the man who pardoned his supporters convicted of violently storming the Capitol to prevent the election winner from taking office.

On the other hand, the broad rejection of the US president's tariff policy is expressed in some positions that, however, generate uneven consensus. In fact, partisan polarization influences the assessment of the European Union's or Spain's response to Trump's trade policy. In this regard, Spanish public opinion is divided: more than 45% approve of the EU and Spanish government's actions in response to Trump's announcement of raising tariffs on European imports. But 43% disapprove of it.

70% of Spaniards say they will buy more European products and fewer American ones.

The explanation? Half of PP voters and two out of three Vox voters disapprove of the European response, and in the case of Spain's actions, the disapproval rate far exceeds 60% among right-wing and far-right voters. However, the consensus is rebuilt when it comes to the citizen response to US trade policy. There, 71% of Spaniards say they will buy "more European products and fewer American ones," a stance shared even by half of Vox voters.

Finally, the perception of China as a more reliable trading partner than the United States again clashes with ideological divisions: 52% share this perception, but its support falls well below 40% among conservative voters.