(Credit: Getty/Ron Sachs/Joe Raedle/Photo montage by Salon) Global public opinion of President Trump and the United States has plummeted in 2017—and that was before Trump lectured global leaders at the United Nations Monday, saying the UN was a bloated and ineffective bureaucracy and suggesting American financial and military support was not a given. “In recent years, the United Nations has not reached its full potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement,” Trump said at a forum on “reforming” the UN.