--- title: Poll: Most Americans Worried U.S. Will Go to War description: A new poll found that 66% of Americans are worried about the U.S. becoming involved in another war in the next four years canonical: https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/ author: Zamira Rahim article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-22T13:36:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-23T03:27:20.398Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Most Americans Are Worried U.S. Will Go to War in the Next 4 Years og:description: The poll shows stark divides between right- and left-leaning voters og:url: https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ecc9fcf7e001637/6988bb4d196cf420aa03ef69/gettyimages-643450778.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: President Trump Visits African-American Museum in Washington og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Most Americans Are Worried U.S. Will Go to War in the Next 4 Years twitter:description: The poll shows stark divides between right- and left-leaning voters twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ecc9fcf7e001637/6988bb4d196cf420aa03ef69/gettyimages-643450778.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll Finds Majority of Americans Are Worried U.S. Will Go to War in the Next 4 Years by [Zamira Rahim](https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/) ## Zamira Rahim Feb 22, 2017 1:36 PM UTC  President Donald Trump delivers remarks after touring the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture on February 21, 2017 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump delivers remarks after touring the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture on February 21, 2017 in Washington, DC.Kevin Dietsch —Pool—Getty Images by [Zamira Rahim](https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/) ## Zamira Rahim Feb 22, 2017 1:36 PM UTC A new poll found that 66% of Americans are worried about the U.S. becoming involved in another war in the next four years. Of that number, 36% are very worried about the prospect and the other 30% are somewhat worried, according to [an NBC News and SurveyMonkey poll.](http://media1.s-nbcnews.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/NBC%20News%20SurveyMonkey%20Toplines%20and%20Methodology%202.22.pdf) Respondents were rigidly divided between party lines, with 88% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters are concerned about the likelihood of the U.S. going to war, while 60% of Republican and GOP leaning voters say they are not worried, [according to NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/feature/data-points/poll-majority-americans-worried-about-war-feel-favorably-toward-nato-n723931). The poll was run online and had 11,512 respondents, with a margin of error of +/- 1.4%. The data seems to reflect growing concerns especially amongst left-leaning voters about [President Trump’s ‘America First’ rhetoric ](http://time.com/4640707/donald-trump-inauguration-speech-transcript/)and foreign policy. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/"},"headline":"Poll Finds Majority of Americans Are Worried U.S. Will Go to War in the Next 4 Years","datePublished":"2017-02-22T13:36:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T03:27:20.398Z","description":"The poll shows stark divides between right- and left-leaning voters","url":"https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/","keywords":["Foreign Policy","Donald Trump","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ecc9fcf7e001637/6988bb4d196cf420aa03ef69/gettyimages-643450778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Zamira Rahim","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/zamira-rahim/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt2ecc9fcf7e001637/6988bb4d196cf420aa03ef69/gettyimages-643450778.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"President Trump Visits African-American Museum in Washington","caption":"President Trump Visits African-American Museum in Washington","creditText":"Kevin Dietsch —Pool—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/foreign-policy/","name":"Foreign Policy"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4678430/donald-trump-usa-war-foreign-policy-poll/","name":"Poll Finds Majority of Americans Are Worried U.S. Will Go to War in the Next 4 Years"}}]}] ```