A new nationwide poll of Germans shows that a large majority views US President Donald Trump as a threat to their country.

Some 1,000 respondents were queried for the poll, though 15% did not respond.

In the final tally, 24% of respondents said they continue to view Trump as an ally, whereas 61% defined Trump as a "threat to the country."

The poll, commissioned by the tabloid newspaper Bild and carried out by the INSA Institute, was conducted this Friday and Saturday, in the wake of Trump's aggressive push for US ownership of Greenland while speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Trump had threatened a 25% punitive tariff on nations — like Germany — unwilling to go along with his scheme to take semiautonomous Greenland from NATO-ally Denmark.

With that in mind, 52% of respondents called on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his administration to take a harder line when dealing with the nation's longtime ally, while 31% argued for continued cooperation.

Beyond the Trump administration's bullying of allies in international forums such as NATO, it has also increasingly turned up domestic pressure, too.

The administration, including the president, vice president, secretary of state and others, such as part-time allies like Elon Musk, have aggressively injected themselves into German politics, offering wild assessments of the state of free speech and immigration in the country and giving full-throated support to far-right parties across Europe, especially Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.