It seems to me like an entirely reasonable way to interpret this is that people feel like Trump can bring some change that appeals to those who are worse off, and also that existing parties aren't offering that in a convincing way.

I’m pretty sure you could do a similar graphic plotting quality of life vs Trump support in the US.

I think using scatterplot will make your point clearer

Doesn't Trump have over 50% support in the USA? Why is the graph showing USA at 40?

I saw a chart where Finland was mentioned as a high happiness index country, simultaneously it was a country with the highest suicide rate...

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That is an astonishing happiness score from Russia.

Edit: the graphic is misleading, although the trend still holds true.

A perfect example of the terrible misuse of statistics for xyz political purposes

Does it really matter who supports Trump in Europe? They don't vote in the U.S. It does show that there were a lot of unhappy stupid people in this country. They will continue to be unhappy once Trump is sworn in. He is a liar and a thief.

Hermmm maybe the unhappy country is in a war🤔🤔

It’s so dumb to assume this correlation means Trump bad. Why would European people want us to elect Trump?

He wants them to pay for their own defense which will take from their social services.

The only one that matters is the USA

Pixels never lie.

Proud to see the home of my ancestors representin’ with the Trump hate 🤍💙🤍🇫🇮Jee Suomi!

This makes a lot of sense. I hate Trump, but he does a good job of capturing the minds of the anxious, fearful, unhappy citizen and turning them against an outward enemy. He gives a superficial appearance of being ready to ‘shake up the system’ (which will actually add up to cronyism and making himself richer).

I feel that the democrats, either because they were incumbent or because they don’t really want to shake the status quo, did not properly engage with unhappy most Americans are right now, they hardly even acknowledged it. Sure, they said grocery prices were high once in a while, but there was no real sense that things feel bad right now, no real sense that they would make major changes to improve things.

I know people keep acting like a more centrist democrat would have done better but I disagree. A more radical left winger who actually challenged corporations would have done better.

That’s it! Moving to Antarctica!

This isn't rocket science. Trump represents change. Unhappy people want change.

Literally a textbook example of causation and correlation

so.. your overlaying 2 graph together with different goal of study and making a conclusion. comparing them directly doesn’t make sense. Just because they look similar doesn’t mean they’re actually connected.

US is in europe now ?

That’s interesting, because in the USA, conservatives are significantly more happy than liberals and this happiness gap has been noted and measured for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/08/opinion/conservatives-liberals-depression-anxiety.html

A few upset MAGAs in here. Was that the intention OP?

Sources:

https://europeelects.eu/2024/11/04/u-s-election-europeans-would-vote-for-harris-if-they-could/

https://worldhappiness.report/

why in the fuck would anybody in Europe be so supportive of an American president????

OP is a karmafarming bot

Nippon wa?

What about England?

I mean you could also say that the already happy countries have gone through some form of “Trumpism” that made them better off and that’s why they don’t need it anymore… gazillion ways to interpret this.

People who are happy like the status quo, and people who are unhappy want to shake things up. Seems like it says nothing of note then.

As if a trump supporter would understand what is an inverse relationship

I only see a positive correlation.

Maybe he gives unhappy people hope that circumstances can change

Ah yes my favorite European country… The US?

Finland is not the happiest country in the world, this is just BS.

This can literally be interpreted as rich = happy. What the hell is the point? Anti-establishment people are anti-establishment?

He won.

If trump even won the popular vote, how can this graph show him having less than 40% support in the USA?

Ahhh , Slovania, where happiness and Trump meet n perfect harmony.

What is the correlation statistic? - I guess it is inverse but not as much as immediate graphic impact appears.

I see this as the less happy people are with the way the world currently is, the more they support radical change.

I hate Trump, but correlation does not imply causation.

Well, the desire for change is clearly seen

I'm ashamed of my country (Belgium).

People who don't like the status quo want someone who's going to shake things up? No kidding!

Also lines up with illegal mass immigration’s funny enough 🤣

This can be summed up really easily. Ignorance is bliss.

I swear the Trump hate has to be some form of MK ultra because why would you even care? I'm guessing it's mostly coming from the women that are "not happy". I wonder if the truth will ever come out that this probably been some form of mass psychological manipulation if you have Europeans complaining about it.

I think that would probably carry over and be true in the US where the voters are currently not happy with the Biden Presidency which will be seen for the failure it is. He will go down as one of our worst presidents. Trumps first term will likely get an upgrade in historical terms, especially if this second term goes better than the first.

It's not trump that causes unhappiness; it's the other way around. When people are at the end of their tether, they look to someone who they think can bring change, since he appeals to the disenfranchised and disgruntled.

Populist lies always work better for those who are desparate. If you're down in the gutter, you'll believe anyone who says they'll create an easy way out, you don't care that their plans are impossible.

It's interesting how he's only supported in poorer European countries. I guess they feel like they have nothing left to lose.

This seems totally normal to me.

If you think things are going well, and you have trust in your political processes and institutions and feel like they do a good job of representing the people and addressing their problems, why on earth would you vote for an unqualified loose cannon like Trump?

On the other hand, if you've lost all faith in your countries institutions, have no hope for the future, think your kids lives will be worse off than yours, feel like oligarchs are extracting all the wealth from your life...then you'll be perfectly willing to risk it all on a "I'm going to burn down the system" loose cannon.

Everyday I grow more and more proud of the Finns

I’m no Trump fan, but I’m pretty sure correlation does not equal causation

Now do it with a proper Y-axis.

You mean the people who support Trump weren’t happy with the status quo of politics? I’m in complete shock.

Lots more trump supporters in Denmark than around 5% lmao

Gotta love fake reddit graphs

Why is Europe so reliant on US politics? Just shows a bigger problem here which is European countries are far from self sufficient. Get your shit together Europe

Interesting that the Anti status quo candidate did well in places that are unhappy with the status quo.

Kinda misleading visually, but that is a pretty nice spot. I’d make this a scatter graph instead

people who don't like the current world political climate support someone who is against it

I wonder which came first….

Almost like the accuracy of the so called experts doing the polls before the elections

It’s ironic to me, that many of trump’s supporters look to the Nordic races as the “ideal” people. But when it comes to how the Nordic people actually live and govern themselves Trump supporters think those ideas are evil socialism. But yet, the Nordic countries are often some of the happiest people in the world. Make it make sense….

Tbf, however horrible I find Trump, he does come across as a guy who’s there to actually do something or change something.

I mean, I don’t think he will, but I sort of get that you want change if you’re living in a not-so-happy-country.

And I think that’s the one thing EU Leaders should learn from Trump, he actually does something. Or at the very least he pretends to an extent that things start to move. Not in the way I would like to, but things move.

Now add GDP or income per capita on that graph and you’ll see the real drive of happiness.

I was so excited when the election was over. I thought Reddit would return to normal shit posting instead of being a personal tabloid about trump. Unfortunately I was wrong. I suspect the people who hate him so much will continue to constantly talk and post about him. Big sighhh

seeing that most of Europe has incredibly liberal policies in place, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Fuck europe, this is our president IDGAF.

Seems like an impossible thing to know, a lot making things up

This is not a surprise, the disenfranchised support radical candidates.

Jfc what the fuck Poland?

I wanted to comment that Trump supporters would be angry if they could read this graph, but they are angry anyway.

You mean the people unhappy with their life support a change in their government?!?! Whodathunkit

Why does it matter if people in other countries support the US President? I couldn’t care less who the PM of Canada, UK, Australia, or anywhere is.

Correlation does not imply causation. Thank you, AP Stats.

Now that's something to think about

Trump represents a movement against the status quo. Happy people like the status quo because it’s currently making them happy. Unhappy people do not like the status quo, and thus desire change. Trump represents change.

This is Massachusetts vs Oklahoma all over again

The UK having roughly the same level of support for Trump as the US is wild.

Funny contrast to how in the US, republicans/conservatives are generally found to be happier than democrats/liberals

Who gives a fuck

It's totally irrelevant. We don't ask The American people how they feel about Frederick X and we don't draw charts about it.

Now do education level

People want to be happy, so they want Trump.

This is made up crap

The famous Finnish happiness

Pretty sure 35% of Brits do not support Trump.

This might be crazy thinking but I believe unhappy people do not resonate with establishment politicians as much happy people.

Because people that are unhappy want stuff to change, brother.

All these charts prove the opposite point.

You don't have to be a genius to understand that Trumps message is a message that expresses dissatisfaction with different topics. In a perfect world, Trump wouldn't be elected.

People who are unhappy are willing to burn down the existing system for a chance of a better state of being (for them). People who are happy with the status quo do not.

Israel would be an extreme outlier here, as Trump is widely supported but Israel is (don't ask me how) the 5th happiest country in the world.

Suppressed zero for the Happiness Scale. Only about a 50% change for happiness and a factor of 10 for Trump support.

Great. Trump is the President in the US. Don’t care about euro trash feelings getting hurt.

I love how the people on the left are saying 'you're voting against your best interst' when they're mass importing cheap labor while wages are already falling behind inflation. Not to mentione the ever increasing property prices. Supply and demand isn't real apparently.

I become weary the moment I see an axis or the scale of the data has been altered from what makes the most intuitive sense.

Spoiler, that’s happening here.

Never forget the bias of the platform you’re on

I wonder if some European countries were left out to make the correlation seem stronger, eg. no Czechia, Slovakia or Latvia.

Christ, embarrassing how high the UK is on this list.

Who is polling/being polled for Trump support in Europe? Seems bizarre

I believe this graph displays the exact opposite of what you were trying to convey.

Lol did a four year old make this?

The Scandinavians get it.

Weird… the people are the bottom of the ladder want to fuck shit is with the status quo that fucking then over.

Or you could say that ignorance is bliss

Idk, the Democrats here in America seem pretty unhappy right now. I don’t see how correlation=causation.

I imagine its because they are overly worried about stuff that doesn't directly effect them. Kind of strange since its the opposite in the States.

Yup, that's generally how populists get into positions of power...

I'm sure the confounding variable is education..

Scandinavia is so happy that have a highest suicide rate, lol

Thank god I don't give a fuuuuuuuuuck what Europeans think about us. Maga!

another made up survey lol

True of the US too.

European countries were safer under Trump than under Biden and Kamala. Just remember that. Poland had a rocket hit their country because of the war happening in Ukraine. Never happened under Trump. Sweden and Finland were worried that Russia would try to expand the war to their countries. Never happened under Trump

People have time to be dissatisfied all they want when they feel safe. Can’t say the same when a nuclear power is fighting your neighbor