It will take years to get our reputation back.

[u/Veshaad]

[u/evident_lee]

He's everybody's problem, but he was created and is enabled by the Republican Party. Vote accordingly

[u/AmericanCitizenry → u/evident_lee]

Neo liberalism. And 35 years of Fox News.

[u/FacePalmate → u/AmericanCitizenry]

Absolutely. But it also extends decades more than that. John Birch. Father Coughlin. The alliance between the evangelicals and the Republican Party in the late 70s was the catalyst that accelerated us towards Trump.

[u/Madawolf → u/AmericanCitizenry]

Fox News...Its Fox entertainment! That's how they can say the things they say that isn't factual.

[u/5thor6th → u/AmericanCitizenry]

The dumbification and pussification of America is almost complete

[u/CK1026 → u/AmericanCitizenry]

Dozens of years of billionaires controlling the media, elections, and everything else really.

They're the litteral cancer of our economies.

[u/DeathKoil → u/AmericanCitizenry]

And decades of leaded gasoline exhaust breathed in by boomers.

[u/jackofslayers → u/evident_lee]

Also cut all Republicans out of your life and tell them why. Isolate that scum so they can rot.

[u/No_Internal9345 → u/evident_lee]

the Republican Russian Party

They're traitors.

[u/rothcoltd]

Until the USA shows that it has WORKING checks and balances against the worst excesses of a President the world will never trust America again.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/rothcoltd]

It's not just the president. A future musk could have other motivations than shutting down the government and deleting cases against himself.

[u/All_Work_All_Play → u/rothcoltd]

No democratic system is safe from a majority of idiots. 

[u/DrowningPickle]

Canada laughed. Now we are mad. It takes a lot to make us mad. We dont retaliate. We turn our backs. We are done. For generations.

[u/BrutalSock → u/DrowningPickle]

It will take a long time for the US to recover from this and it’s not really about being mad at them. It’s about the fact that they’ve proven themselves to be an incredibly unreliable partner.

They can turn rogue at any moment because they don’t like Mexicans…

How can you deal with someone like this? It’s impossible.

[u/TurboJetMegaChrist → u/BrutalSock]

As someone that's watched my neighbors be shot by masked government agents in the street, it's going to get worse before it gets better, if it ever gets better at all. Take care of your own, and maybe we'll see you after an all-out class war to bring the rich and powerful to heel.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/BrutalSock]

They can turn rogue at any moment because they don’t like Mexicans will elect a pedophile who will literally start wars and trade conflict to hide and distract from his crimes.

Ftfy. Because everything that isn't about the Epstein files is a distraction from the Epstein files.

[u/BrutalSock → u/Lexi_Banner]

The “they don’t like Mexicans” referred to the reason why Donald Trump is in office. What you’re talking about is the consequences of that.

[u/AndyJS81 → u/BrutalSock]

They all still think they're going to recover from this. Cute.

[u/GoofinOffAtWork → u/AndyJS81]

Agreed.

It took them 80 years for them to get to where they were and less than one year to throw it away.

They will never again get that back

[u/bowmans1993 → u/BrutalSock]

We also voted for this twice.... how can you trust america going forward. Trust is earned over time but js lost incredibly quickly

[u/MissAmberR → u/BrutalSock]

The truth is America may never recover from this, the national debt seems to be starting to concern investors, US bonds are no longer seen as a safe haven they once were, the bond yield has been rising making that debt more expensive to service, countries are selling US debt and pulling their physical gold out of America, China is making more deals to broaden its trading relationships around the world while America is losing the faith of its partners. This isn’t a case of it will be ok with the next administration, it could take a generation or more for America to prove itself a safe and reliable training partner and ally. But the power and respect that is lost will be gained by other countries, countries that will be reluctant to give it up again.

[u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 → u/DrowningPickle]

In 2016 I wasn't mad, just disappointed. In 2024, I wasn't mad, or disappointed, but ashamed. I feel ashamed of America every day Trump continues to hold office and the rhetoric and lobbies and billionaires and war on intelligence and rational thought that drive the US government to commit more and greater crimes against it's own people and against people around the world.

It's this barbaric notion that "you can't stop me" is sufficient reason to do anything. Fuck you and your exceptionalism. You're bad people. Learn humility, learn empathy, learn that you should never stop learning. Learn to cultivate relationships. Find strength in diversity. Greatness comes from community, not from dominance.

[u/tissuecollider → u/DrowningPickle]

We Canadians have learned that the US cannot be trusted. They've proven that treaties, agreements, rights, and laws mean nothing to them.

Sure the next administration might be 'a good one' but Canada can't work with a country whose good faith is dependant on whoever is in power at the moment.

[u/zadtheinhaler → u/tissuecollider]

Sure the next administration might be 'a good one' but Canada can't work with a country whose good faith is dependant on whoever is in power at the moment.

Specifically, that the US is effectively schizophrenic - every 4-8 years, they'll flip-flop, and either they get a Dem that gets X amount of time to unfuck what the GQP did, or they get a GQP president that helps all his grifting billionaire pals, mostly because the Dems don't get enough time to undo all the damage the GQP, so right-wingers and "undecideds" go all "See, they can't do it, get our people back in!".

[u/Cockalorum → u/tissuecollider]

As a Canadian, I want America to fuck off. And I want them to keep fucking off until they come to a gate with a sign that says "No Fucking Off Past This Point," at which point I want them to hop over that gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.

[u/Drewpig → u/DrowningPickle]

We deserve it at this point. The country's had plenty of chances to wake up in the last decades and decided not to out of bigotry and ignorance.

[u/Rough_Bread8329 → u/DrowningPickle]

Another Canadian here... yeah. Y'all... gather close, please. Seriously.

Go away. Go away for a good long while and figure out your shit. Leave the rest of us alone. We just want to get on with living quiet, healthy, enjoyable lives, and y'all won't stop fucking that up.

Go away.

[u/walkingdisaster2024 → u/DrowningPickle]

Probably done for present generation of those in power, and one more generation who's behind them and has suffered through it all. You're right.

But generational knowledge usually gets wiped off in grand scheme of things, and geographic proximity would eventually prevail.

[u/strange_mass_found → u/DrowningPickle]

Lol “ for generations “

Dont get me wrong, there is permanent trust damaged but the world wants to do business. We were trading with Germany within 5 years after ww2

Business is quick to forget, the world craves for cooperation. Forgive but dont forget is the motto I think is gonna be going forward

[u/PopBulky7023 → u/DrowningPickle]

You guys got over Germany doing a holocaust pretty fast. Hell your country supports the current one done by Israel.

Palestinians would like to know when you're going to force your government to change that.

[u/0202_tihssitidder → u/DrowningPickle]

The full (and lasting) negative effects and destruction of Republicans/Trump will come around after Shitler is gone.

The USA is cooked. 2024-2028 might be the most important 4 year period in humanity.

The USA had a clown/girfter/moron/ped0 running things with Naz!s in there, too.

Game over, USA. Done. Trajectory toward a smoking hole in the ground.

[u/CrownandSceptres]

Imagine the rage the rest of the world feels with oil and gas prices rocketing higher because the pedophile in chief decided to start a war against Iran with half-assed planning and no way of getting out of it without losing.

[u/5thor6th → u/CrownandSceptres]

They're more frustrated with us for continuing to allow it to happen.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/5thor6th]

For giving him a navy and nukes. Twice. For not slamming the brakes when he went for Mexico, Canada, Greenland and NATO.

It was obvious he couldn't handle giving orders to the military.

[u/AndyJS81 → u/5thor6th]

Fucking FINALLY there's someone here that gets it. We don't care how you stop it or what it takes, but FUCKING DO IT.

[u/Life_Smoke5854 → u/AndyJS81]

Dont worry, its coming to a head real soon. It all hangs on November third.

[u/Hangry-Feline2489 → u/Life_Smoke5854]

And in 4 years the world should hold its breath again, hoping against hope?

And the 4 years after that? 

And after that?

Why would anyone willingly do that, who doesn't have to?

 I have to choose between fuel, food, and heating right now. There's other factors involved, but a large part is because of America screwing with global oil prices or kicking off some other financial bullcrap (like the US bond market currently crapping itself, or the 2008 GFC). 

The cheapest normal unleaded fuel near me is currently at converted $6.29usd per gallon.

 I'm not in North America or Europe. 

For the first time in 20+ years of voting, I'm going single issue in my country's elections - the party with the strongest 'decoupling from American influence and dependence' plan. And will be voting that way for the next decade or so. 

[u/Green-Inkling → u/Life_Smoke5854]

the make or break. will the people put a stop to this madness or roll over and let him trample voting numbers?

[u/Life_Smoke5854 → u/Green-Inkling]

If it doesn't come from the elections, it'll come when half the country loses their jobs between soaring prices and llm bullshit. All the ingredients are in the pot except the catalyst.

[u/Trash_man_can → u/CrownandSceptres]

The whole world is disgusted and horrified by the Republican voters, these rightwing slave cultists that keep setting our world on fire and seem hellbent on destroying humanity.

Republicanism is an anti human, anti life, anti consent, anti democracy, anti American pro rape death murder cp and fascist death cult.

I've never watched so many human beings fight so fiercely for a cult of politicians like this.

Republicans are rhe most mind controlled rape cultists on the planet.

They don't even believe anything is real.

They think everyome hates them because of their opinions and libturd fake news.

Republicans rape children so they can blame it on liberal fake news and get theur followers to defend them

[u/EitherChannel4874 → u/CrownandSceptres]

America elected him. The rest of us are forced to be customers of their clown show.

[u/Great-Reception8708]

The damage might be irreperable. Which I guess was the MAGA agenda after all.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/Great-Reception8708]

Other than reputation, it's the simple estimation: "Is USA done voting for catastrophically stupid leaders?"

Why would anybody assume that USA isn't ready to repeat what it has done?
There's no trust that could last more than 2-4 years max.

[u/Macro_Seb → u/Ninevehenian]

This... even if next president is a great one who tries to be a decent trade partner and ally, how can other countries be sure that the president after him/her isn't another Trump-like person.

[u/AirportSea4393 → u/Great-Reception8708]

Project 2025 of course he knew about it all the time. And we all knew slug was lying with his denials

[u/Medill1919 → u/Great-Reception8708]

Russian agent

[u/Greedy-Street-5435 → u/Medill1919]

All of them, not just Trump.

[u/T_J_Rain]

Not years.

Decades.

[u/henryeaterofpies → u/T_J_Rain]

Current events and horrendous leadership are how empires die, and China is trying to take that role next.

[u/Pomegranate_Mobile → u/henryeaterofpies]

From what I have gathered over the years they are already doing a good job of that...

[u/TrainingParty3785 → u/henryeaterofpies]

Xi is just letting the Idiot do his idiot things in front of the World. That makes China look like a sane regime to the mass of ill informed in the World.

[u/RDXexit → u/T_J_Rain]

Actually, never we elected this criminal TWICE. We have proven our population is incapable of critical thinking.

[u/TrainingParty3785 → u/RDXexit]

Agree! The racist cult fervor that crawled out from under the rocks to lick his boots is very telling. I have hope though. VOTE!!!

[u/Good_Valuable_7845 → u/RDXexit]

I don’t believe for a second he won the last election without corruption and cheating by Musk. No way, it’s leaked and been bragged about by big orange too many times.

[u/guynye → u/T_J_Rain]

Literally dozens of new deals already have heem struck for future economic cooperation.

Not ONE has involved the U.S.

We are so royally fucked in the near future people.don't even understand how much Trump has screwed up our country.

[u/MammothWriter3881 → u/guynye]

Near future?

Half a century at least.

[u/guynye → u/MammothWriter3881]

No I mean that it hasn't even hit yet.

As in people think it's bad now, wiat three to five years when all our current trade agreements end. Then shit will really hit the fan.

[u/Desiato2112 → u/T_J_Rain]

Came here to say this.

[u/i8noodles → u/T_J_Rain]

decades is optimistic. it is way more likely u will continue to decline untill America is no longer the economic powerhouse it is today.

we see systems already in motion to remove American influence in governments in places like the EU. and the EU is considering expanding to canada and maybe even Australia.

china is rapidly becoming the reliable partner because they keep there word. while America have proven a single man is capable to disrupting decades long trade agreements and random tariffs at a drop of the hat.

America would be lucky to maintain there economic powerhouse situation into the next century.

it is entirely possible that this is the decade historians will study as the beginning of the fall of the American super power. just like how we study Julius Caesar as the fall of the roman republic.

although i think there is still a chance. if u can make him be held accountable for his actions, if institutions are changed to be no longer influenced by a single man. trade deals cant be changed on a whim of a single person or powers exploited again. then

[u/norm-1701 → u/T_J_Rain]

I believe it could take a generation for the world to trust the USA again.

[u/Toastburner5000 → u/norm-1701]

Some of the trade deals and security cannot be reversed at this point, the fact that European countries are ditching American software in administration and government rolls proves the trust is gone.

[u/Kooky_Box302 → u/T_J_Rain]

It's insane that people think we will "recover" from this when at best, maybe some of the closest U.S allies will come back, but the entire world knows that every 4 years, the U.S can elect someone who can rip up any previous agreements.

[u/farilladupree → u/T_J_Rain]

It’s so bad. Those alliances find their root in the collective struggle and blood spilled across two World Wars and nearl a century of turmoil—it is inconceivable that an administration could so flippantly throw that legacy in the trash. I am also not entirely surprised.

[u/IlludiumQXXXVI → u/T_J_Rain]

We will never get it back without major reform of presidential power. Otherwise we're just one election from being back to where we were, and the world knows it.

[u/steel-monkey]

It will take decades. We still haven’t cleaned up the mess that Reagan left.

[u/cybermaus → u/steel-monkey]

This *is* the mess that Reagan left. Lots of bendy cause and effect reasons, but lets highlight a rather direct one: Reagan removed the Fairness Doctrine, allowing for channels like Fox to spring up.

[u/facedown_titsup → u/cybermaus]

This is what a lot of people aren’t talking about enough. Trump isn’t the disease, he’s a symptom of a much bigger disease. What is happening now took decades to do, including hacking away at education, widening the wealth gap, making people too reliant on systems they can take away at any time, the psyops to pit citizens against each other, basically making people too dumb sick and poor to organize and physically fight back. If we had a healthy system to begin with in 2015, we would never have gotten this far.

[u/SARB033 → u/steel-monkey]

It will never happen. It's like saying that it'll take decades for the British to get back their colonies.

No, friend, it won't because the door has simply closed and it cannot be reopened.

[u/desertguy1961]

Donald Trump is a fascist cunt destroying the country, per the orders of The Kremlin.

[u/horizontal120 → u/desertguy1961]

You're giving the Kremlin too much credit... He's just that idiotic all by himself.

[u/Ajax_A → u/horizontal120]

Grey's Law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

[u/Infinite_Box2098 → u/horizontal120]

He's a useful idiot, which are easily manipulated.

[u/Grouchy_Moment_6507 → u/desertguy1961]

Your geography is off, Benjamin does not live in Kremlin. Though I see the distractions are still working for a lot of people

[u/CJ_Thompson]

It is a warning that no one country should have so much influence over other countries.

The deficit has ballooned and will take a long time get control of again. Republicans typically inflate the deficit leaving democrats to try and balance it. They always talk about fiscal responsibility, but have none.

Don’t get me wrong, both parties have failed the American people. They let corporations take control of the government away from the people.

We need change!

We need a progressive party….

[u/Medill1919 → u/CJ_Thompson]

Republican fiscal responsibility is a pure lie.

[u/JakeHelldiver → u/Medill1919]

Nobody has ever voted republican for the economics. Not one time.

[u/Biguitarnerd → u/JakeHelldiver]

Sort of… so technically no but also yes. Many blue collar workers vote republican because republicans typically loosen restrictions and regulations which results in a short term gain long term loss but to the average oilfield worker (as an example) what they see is more work and more money in their personal finances when a republican president is running the Oval Office.

Trump promised an economic boom and far more people voted for him for that reason than they did for his anti immigration stance or his regressive social stance. He didn’t deliver on that though but people believed him because he was lucky enough to benefit from Obama’s work for the first part of his first term. As soon as a major crises happened it tanked but republicans blamed that on Covid and said any president would have had the same issue. They didn’t recognize that he was riding Obama’s economic coattails until he couldn’t.

Why is this important at all?

It’s critical that the Democratic Party begins to talk to this more. They need to recognize that many many more people vote on what they believe to be financial security (Job opportunities) over social issues. Obama did a great job of that, that’s why he had two terms, so did Clinton (for all his faults) they fell short in the last election and we got this dude again who’s entire business model for whatever he’s been in control of for his entire adult life is sucking it dry to advance his personal wealth which is exactly what he is doing again.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/CJ_Thompson]

You need a political system wherein there can be a progressive party, to begin with.

[u/Green-Inkling → u/CJ_Thompson]

repubs are at fault for causing this mess, dems are at fault for refusing to clean it up.

[u/Sufficient_Way5440]

Totally agree with all comments he should have never been able to get back in the White House. Felon 34/rapist. Put representatives in office who have a spine and stop all this craziness.

[u/KushMaster72]

trump and republicans about to hand dems their next economic diaster that they will pretend to know nothing about and blame them for.

[u/whatidoidobc]

He is a world problem.

[u/duncraig18]

Hell would have to freeze over before I visit the USA. Been on a few trips. But never again.

[u/Square_Appearance_79]

What ever did the people who voted for him ever think that this loser would provide for them to make their lives better??? He’s always been a con artist a liar and a thief. And now he’s fleecing the American public. Of course the rest of the world despises this octogenarian puke. He is at best a guy who talks about everything and knows nothing about what it is he talks of. He is a court jester

[u/Lonely_Sale9707]

Donald Trump isn't just a Republican problem.

Donald Trump isn't just a Democrat problem.

Donald Trump is problematic for America.

[u/PatternSeekngMammal → u/Lonely_Sale9707]

Heritage foundation is the fatter problem

[u/Born-Hospital-2572 → u/Lonely_Sale9707]

Dems, Republicans, MAGA doesn’t matter which you are If you’re not a billionaire or part of his regime or family you do not matter. Looks like he has now targeted everyone and not at all concerned with doing anything good for the country. He’s destroying so much first half I am really concerned about the second half.

[u/Lonely_Sale9707 → u/Born-Hospital-2572]

One of Trump's campaign promises was that after voting Trump it would be the last election you'd have to worry about.

Trumps ego long surpassed merely president of America, there's history, royalty, posterity, literally symbolically and regularly, while getting as filthy fucking rich as possible.

The GOP's collective attitude is that it's better we do nothing than vote for a democrat who we all know will raise our taxes and try to take away our weapons. Otherwise, taxes are to fight war, whatever it takes including gasp some amount of government as in Armed Services.

Concerned isn't the word.

Alarmed.

[u/TrainingParty3785 → u/Born-Hospital-2572]

Yes, it’s a Rich of the Rich game. But please don’t give Republicans a pass on this now, they did the dirty work for them. The GOP message and agenda is clearly aligned with Trump.

[u/Ninevehenian → u/Lonely_Sale9707]

And as GOP wrecks the global economy, trump is a problem all round.

[u/Beachboy442]

Donny Destructo

[u/MuricanJim]

Yes, but he’s a product of the Republican Party and they are very much the problem now. They’ve shown they’re spineless, mindless, and vile people.

[u/muffledvoice]

Republicans who voted him in and those who rigged the tabulation results at the polls put a narcissistic psychopath in charge of the country.

[u/Bacononthebeeach]

Have you actually ever tried to talk sense to a republican? They live in a different reality. In their eyes none of their suffering is ever their or the GOP’s fault but someone else’s.

These psychopaths voted for a convicted felon, rapist and obvious pedophile because they claim to care so much about prolife and the welfare of children and cannot connect the dots on how crazy that is to a sane person.

[u/Frequent-Sea433]

Thanks magats. So much winning

[u/No_Classic_1743]

America has a Republican problem.

[u/Neat_Let923]

We are still laughing

Trump isn’t the problem, Americans are

You’ve NEVER had a good reputation… We just put up with you because we had to

It’s not going to be years, it’s going to be never again

[u/ScreenAppropriate679]

We are indeed cutting the US off, but we're also still laughing at them.

[u/Apprehensive_Bird357 → u/ScreenAppropriate679]

There’s plenty of laughing at our own expense within US borders as well, trust me.

[u/LPB39 → u/ScreenAppropriate679]

Just wait til they elect dog the bounty hunter or kid rock in a couple years

[u/Wolfsteron]

Nope, this is lost now. The world cannot unsee what an unhinged US can do, what dumb masses can vote for. It is now Idiocracy is better that the US. There is no turning this around because everyone knows that whoever is the president, however nice (s)he is, a new version of trump is just four years away. That is the sad fact. The US will have to fix itself first from being a bully, being inundated with ICE nazis, having a corrupt-to-the-core billionaire cast who do not care about the very country and people that made them billionaires, a totally skinned society etc, etc, etc. Worrying about global image is not important, the destruction done by the pedo and crew is decades to mitigate, let alone fix.

[u/Speed_102]

our reputation isn't the issue any longer. The international trade changes that have happened are irreversable.

[u/Proof-Ad-171]

It only took him a year to destroy our reputation It going to take several years to get it back even if it is possible to. Some of them are not going to trust us again others might. But no matter what is said or done we are going to have to prove to the countries that we want a diplomatic relationship with them And the first thing we should do is get rid of the tariffs and negotiate a trade agreements with the world.

[u/Disastrous_Fruit8610 → u/Proof-Ad-171]

Trump didn't destroy America, YOU, the voters, did!

[u/PayFormer387 → u/Proof-Ad-171]

It’s sunk. Our half-witted electorate could elect a loon like this again so every four years, other countries have to deal with a different asshole.

[u/MissAmberR → u/Proof-Ad-171]

It’s not just about reputation , other countries are building stronger ties and investing in infrastructure and creating regulations to sell products, oil and gas, critical minerals, cars, weapons and everything else, there are billions of dollars being spent to facilitate this. The USA being everyone’s preferred customer isn’t the default anymore. It’s going to be Americas job to show that I can be a reliable and stable partner for the rest of the world again, and prove that’s it’s better deal for the countries to deal with American again. But it’s not just the next administration, when companies or countries are looking to invest billions of dollars, they’re not just looking at the next administration it’s the one after that and the one after that. Also countries that find themselves in better positions or with a bit more global power or prominence aren’t just going to give that up.

We still have two more years in which current U.S. trade and foreign-policy decisions could accelerate diversification away from America. It feels like it’s something that will take a decade to recover from this if it ever does.

Even if a future administration restores a more predictable U.S. foreign and trade policy, some of the diversification occurring now may be difficult to reverse because countries will have invested capital, created institutions, signed agreements and developed alternative supply chains.

[u/tacomaty → u/MissAmberR]

This

[u/OSRS_Garmr → u/MissAmberR]

I think that ship has sailed. The world has become multipolar.

[u/Superb-Butterfly-573 → u/Proof-Ad-171]

Not years, decades. And these countries are going to want their pound of flesh.

[u/Wenital_Garts → u/Proof-Ad-171]

Several years is extremely optimistic.

It doesn't matter if we have a good 4 years or even 8. We've shown the world we can quickly turn on them with just one election.

[u/Dugley2352 → u/Proof-Ad-171]

That’s my concern with the next election- it’s pretty obvious voters will choose someone besides Trump. But the four years after that election will be spent by Democrats trying to repair everything the GOP has destroyed. No forward progress will be made, it’ll all be about fixing what he broke. Issues like Medicare For All won’t be at the top priority, so it won’t get done in that first term. Single issue voters will be angry when their issue didn’t get addressed. And in 2032, voters will be pissed there was no forward progress, so they’ll vote for a Republican.

[u/ClassicCarraway → u/Dugley2352]

Therin lies the problem and why the world will likely never regain the trust they had for the US. It's citizens are too uneducated (and selfish) and it's corporations are too unethical (and selfish) for a rebuilding period to be successful.

Honestly, a Democrat administration needs to focus on two things in the first term, ensuring justice is served for all that allowed Trump and his cronies to crap all over the Constitution, and shore up the laws so it can't happen again. Until that is done, nothing can improve long term. Why push for Medicare for All if the next administration will just remove it day 1?

[u/Itchy_Pressure_8311]

He needs to be hung for treason

[u/Kingsxfan1]

Years? Try decades, and that's only if you manage to erradicate the blatant corruption and corporate influence endemic with your politcal system, and judiciary.

[u/No_Current3675]

He's a problem for all of humanity the planet and should be dealt with as such.

[u/Recent_Journalist676]

Guys, reality check here: You will never regain what little trust you had before. The Trump flavour of heavy-handed meddling, threats and deep idiocy have always been an issue - it's merely 1½ times worse this time. You should focus on steering US decline towards a semi-stable trade federation (10-15 Gilead-like theocracies semi-peacefully trading with prosperous Maine and NCR etc., while a post-oil Texas has become the sole third world country on the continent) ... the alternative is a really ugly civil war. The US is ending, and Orange McClownface is merely a symptom.

[u/Large_Cloud_1611]

It’s too late.

[u/VrsoviceBlues]

Years? Yeah. Fifty of 'em. The United States is going ti have to raise two whole generations to legal majority and political power without repeating any of this nonsense before the rest of the world (especially Canada and to a lesser extent the EU) is willing to evem consider resuming status quo ante.

[u/Bhoddisatva → u/VrsoviceBlues]

Status quo we grew up with is dead. A lot of nations are going to take their shot and have no reason to submit to an unreliable and incompetent hegemony anymore. They get nothing out of it.

[u/Cannibal_House69]

If only Americans could realize that. Might be the truest meme ever made though.

[u/CardiffONE]

Spending fuck all on education because it doesn't get an instant return has removed your capacity for critical thinking. In short... You've made yourselves thick as pigshit & you'll believe anything you are told.

[u/Solid_Signature_7447]

The USA did a fantastic job creating a population of brain dead citizens with the equivalent of a 5th grade education.

Refused to fund schools, pay teachers what they were worth, didn’t focus on any special education, refused to teach computer literacy, wouldn’t prioritize math, science, STEM subjects…

So we end up with a 80 IQ average….

They vote, they drive cars, the buy things…

And these are the results of 80 yrs of failed baby boomer first policies.

[u/DreadCoder]

The reputation is never coming back. We’ve seen your true face now.

[u/Stunning-Nature-335]

[u/Can17272]

We simply can't trust a partner that lets the stupidest administration the world has ever seen do whatever they want. The race was literally normal lady vs narcissist unstable criminal and you guys still shit the bed. Guess there's a reason cults are so prolific on the US.

[u/UglySalvatore]

For decades I, a leftist Northern European, have defended the US at family dinners.

Under the US's superpower status the past 100 years, humanity has flourished like no other period in history. Exploding global cooperation, more peace than ever, insane technological development etc. Imagine how bad it could have been if it was a dictatorship like Russia or China. Also, the US is top 5 in median income world wide. Not average, but MEDIAN. That's crazy high amounts of quality of life for a country of 350 mill.

While many of those arguments are still valid, I just shut up about it these days.

[u/Sodacan259]

It's not just reputation. Trump showed the world what is behind the curtain.

We've seen that your power isn't as powerful as we thought. We've all realised that without US bases in other countries, you have no power. There has been a seismic shift in the amount of leverage the USA has or used to have.

[u/External-Geologist62]

The US has been a declining empire since the late 60s. But since most Americans don't have a passport or travel out of the country they have continued to believe the America is number 1 when the statistics tell a completely different story.

But Trump has accelerated our decline and don't kid yourselves into thinking that the people's of the world will separate his actions from those of all Americans as his crap has not just effected our economy, he has effected the world economy.

[u/BrainwaveWizard → u/External-Geologist62]

When I travel outside the US, I find myself envious of so much.

[u/stuntondeezh0es]

All these comments saying years/decades… nope. Never again. Every 4-8 years Americans will do the dumbest thing ever and screw the entire world again and again. The only thing happening in the upcoming years/decades is the collapse of American influence. Good luck; you’ll need it

[u/bigorangemachine]

Could speed run the reputation harm by arresting the whole family and seizing their assets.

[u/Zealousideal_Box4690]

Let’s get him out of office ASAP

[u/PrestigiousTea0]

Looks like the world has an America problem then

[u/sheepwshotguns]

if only we had a four year period where we could have done something about him and his crimes against humanity and democracy and all his SA victims. we dont fix this by breaking half the system. we need to see the FULL problem. our system PRODUCES donald trumps and mitch mcconnells in power, and it REQUIRES the clintons and obamas to help them get there.

[u/mt1118]

Another lie. The world is laughing at us everyday. He has made us the worlds joke

[u/mightyjoe227]

Project 2025 seems to be working...

[u/RationallyBerserk]

He’s a world problem. Everyone is paying more for the fuel and seeing inflationary rises because of a cunt we could see was terrible but had no ability to vote against.

Sort out your shit America. You’re fucking it up for the rest of us.

Isn’t this what your second amendment is officially for?

[u/jackofslayers]

We are never getting our reputation back. America as we know it was killed by Republicans.

[u/ReefShark13]

He is more destructive to this country than world war 2. It will take a generation to repair our global reputation if we don't collapse under the weight of his corruption.

[u/ZenZigZag]

We may never get our reputation back- More damning than anything that he's done, and more damning that he was elected twice, is the speed at which he was able to do it. Any potential ally now knows that they can trust us for a maximum of eight years unless an until we make some structural changes and show a willingness to enforce consequences for shenanigans.

[u/djillll]

We need another choice. And we need to change the constitution on some things. We should be able to fire politicians if they do a 360degree on their program or anything illegal.

[u/NonyaGotDamBiz]

You say years, but more like decades.  What country would trust our current leader (even if it was a really good one) when morons in the us can just elect another Trump that will just tear everything up again? We would have to do an overhaul on pres powers, put actual penalties in place, make nice with world leaders, and do that over the course of multiple diff pres before I would trust us as a country again and I am just some dummy on reddit.

[u/Wind-and-Sea-Rider]

It will never happen. The US was riding post WWII exceptionalism, and now that’s gone. Now we are no longer a super power because we have alienated our allies and sold our ridiculous debt to the highest bidder. Trump, and whomever were instructing him, hit the target dead center when they brought us down from the inside. Decades might give us time to rebuild some global ties, but we will never ever be who we were. The price for a republican overthrow of our democracy? Everything that made us great. Now they feast on the carcass.

[u/seweso]

Mexico, Philippines, Iran, Guatemala, Vietnam, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, Iraq, Afghanistan

And Iran again.... You want to restore it to what exactly? Make America Great Again?

I hated America before Trump, and i will hate it after Trump.

[u/whoknewandwhen]

Canadian here. You will never regain Canada's trust. Ever!

[u/UniqueName15]

Americans thinking the reputation of the US was good before trump lol

[u/Educated-Fingers]

We are EASILY 30 years of SENSIBLE leadership away from being invited back to the adults table on global summits and trade agreements. The very first time a MAGA adjacent or Nazi sounding candidate gets more than say 35% of the popular vote, the World will put us back at the kids table.

This isnt a TRUMP IS THE ISSUE problem. This is an issue with our voting populace and the senators and representatives those people elect. This takes generations to fix at home, and decades to fix globally.

[u/extrastupidone]

Its not coming back like it used to be. We've shown the world twice now that we are vulnerable to this type of take-over.

We could very well elect a fascist, unhinged, isolationist buffoon any time.

[u/Fuzzy_Translator4639]

America will never regain its status.

He is merely a symptom. MAGA still exists, the GOP still exists . . . nothing will change until those factions are reduced or eliminated

[u/Beginning_Handle_113]

I live in a very prosperous european country. I work a job where alot of choices between different vendors need to be made. I've seen a very sharp increase in the amount of declined salespitches from american made vendors.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg because over here in Europe we're working hard to secure new strategic economic tradedeals to further distance us from the US for the coming decades. This even goes as far as building new OS for computer systems and projects to ditch american cloud providers for European made solutions.

And these are not mild or small steps. These are well thought out strategic plans that took more than a year to work out. Europe will not veer off these plans because that ship has sailed months ago.

We're now well on our way to actuating these plans and tens of billions upon tens of billions of euros are invested into creating a new Europe that is unencumbered by a backstabbing and untrustworthy alliance member.

So yeah, DJ Trumpytrump destroyed virtually all respect, soft power and credibillity that the US had and Americans will notice the negative financial effects for the next 30 years.

[u/Regular-Hospital-470]

You never will

[u/JB102285]

Gotta love the fact that he will go down in history as the biggest joke, and worst president ever. Hope to see him behind bars but… the Orange toddler is a complete joke and there ya go.

[u/holdyourpearls]

Any country that would put him back in office after Jan 6th is broken, and untrustworthy.

[u/Hallodrie]

All the ppl saying that it will take years, maybe a few decades to fix the relationships with other countires.

No ma dude. this will take at least a generation. I am middle aged and probably will be around for another 40-ish years. And in those 40-ish years, I will not trust America again as I used to do.

Kids that see a new, a different US President in a few years might come to a different conclusion. But ppl that are btween 20 and 40 right now and have to live in the shit-show Trump and his party has unleashed onto the world? Nah, I dont see that happen.

I dont say it out of spite, but I highly doubt that many ppl who witnessed all of this will ever be like "Yeah the US of A is cool"

[u/HappyCatPrincess]

True. & most of us were against ICE back when they were called Proud Boys or the Klan.

[u/alphamale070]

Decades…. If ever. Americans cannot be trusted.

[u/EitherChannel4874]

Americas days of bullying allies and being a super power are over.

Trump isn't a mistake. He's the result of American society. The personification of all that is wrong with the USA.

It goes way beyond politics. A huge number of Americans are morally bankrupt bigots and until that problem is addressed, America won't change for the better.

[u/Mundane-Mud2509 → u/EitherChannel4874]

Yeah when you step back and look at it, it’s so clear how perfect a personification of US culture he is.

Narcissism
Anti intellectualism
Brashness
Transactional
Money focused
Hypocrisy
Selfish

[u/Buttercups88]

One of the great delusions of America is it's exceptionalsim.

People from all over moved to the US, but somehow over the last 100 years they have convinced themselves they alone are inherently superior.

They have forgotten those they left behind, those who sacrificed to give them a opportunity and who have supported that for a more than a century.

And all over we were happy to support and  trade them...after all they wouldn't just go against us, they are our uncles and aunts, our grandparents, our nieces and nephews, etc. yeah we have different standards, different approaches but at the end of the day we aren't just friends we are family.

But that's no longer the case, it's been made clear that this current approach isn't a one off mistake... We all make mistakes... It's what is truly desired by the people of America.

The Americans have lost their heritage, their morality and left only unearned pride. 

[u/Some-Tear3499]

He is a global problem.

[u/Standard_List_2487]

The rest of the world is laughing and cutting us off at the same time.

[u/akaZilong]

If ever. Once the world moves on, they might not be coming back

[u/No-Turn9020]

Netherland is laughing at us 🙄

[u/roadwarrior721]

What kills me is that the next president, assuming a democrat, will get immediately torched by republicans on the state country and how it’s not getting fixed fast enough

[u/Nearby_Charge_9504]

Trump is a humanity problem! Racism is a White person’s problem. Importing White South Africans. He’s f-ing with Greenland, Gulf of Mexico, hating on Canada.

Killing innocent people on boats. Starting a War. And his list of atrocities continues to grow. Trump, thinks he’s a modern version Hitler.

Then there’s Napoleon Bonaparte. Putting trashy gold, in the Oval Office. Trump, must not know. How he met his end. Racism is costly. Look and listen to the White Farmers.

They’re begging! Then there are the Cattle ranchers. These ranchers are suffering. Is Trump’s plan to import White folks from other European countries?

[u/JohnnyCrispZoom]

He has to go

[u/Normal-Ad6528]

30 years minimum to repair the damage done to the US itself (internal - because the economy is destroyed, again) and half a century to repair world reputation.

But they ALL have to go (to prison). Do NOT make the same mistakes that were made during the US Civil War. PUNISH the guilty and don't give them a chance to come back! This means BOTH sides of the aisle!

[u/Frito_Bandit0]

He is a humanity problem

[u/ninjasaid13]

Man who has never done public service for america before his presidency is supposed to be loyal to america?

[u/wowwashington]

While also being a Russian asset.

[u/UsedPart7823]

Decades, more like. 🥺

[u/NewPlace7179]

I couldn't care less about my country's reputation. The whole world can laugh at america if they want to, I just want a government that is held accountable for its actions. Theres no reason we should be governed by baby raping cannibals but everyone is so divided by red and blue teams that they think their baby raping cannibal isnt as bad as the other one. Im tired.

[u/HappyHydro420]

.69 cents a gallon in 2001 was great. Texas George had to play we need more oil money starting a war that was for What. Americans didn’t pay attention then. Do you see the
similarities in front of you this time. Conservatives like war and degrading society.

[u/Flessuh]

It will take decades to get reputation back for the US.. even more so if the election results keep flip flopping between Democrats and Republicans.. if the next Republican president continues in line with Trump, I highly doubt countries will want to burn their hands on any long term relations with the US anymore

[u/Deep_shot]

The plain truth. It's so frustrating when a lot of us knew ten years ago that this would be the result if he continued to be president. It feels like watching people walking towards a cliff, screaming and begging them to stop. They just kept saying there is no cliff and walked off it anyways. It has been the most frustrating and surreal period of my life, realizing how susceptible and easily propagandized Americans are. I truly and honestly thought my countrymen and women were smart enough to see what he really was, and I was dumbfounded that I was wrong, twice. I have lost an untold amount of faith that I once had in my country.

[u/De4con]

Nobody is even slightly prepared for the century of American humiliation.

[u/M0ebius_1]

We are never getting our reputation back.

From now on any contract, treaty or agreement with the US is going to be written with the premise "Remember Americans voted for Trump twice"

[u/Sodacan259 → u/M0ebius_1]

Any contract or treaty will now be viewed as temporary until the next time Americans vote in another ignorant narcissist. Nations are going to start asking for the ratification of treaties to be concluded by signing them into law, so that supermajorities are needed to overturn them.

[u/Robofsemi]

[u/_BlackFathom_]

"Years"

It is going to be longer than that, chief.

[u/Middle_of_theroadguy]

The really sad part is all of the generations that have literally fought for this country and democracy just to have people that support that, support this. Those allies will be slow to come back and cautious in their dealings with us for decades if not longer. We need to insure stronger guardrails on the presidency in the future if we are to be trusted by our allies again. They will worry and rightfully so, that this country could elect another mean spirited moron.

[u/Robin_Gr]

This was true after the first time you elected him. Doing it twice made everyone realise it wasn’t just some fluke. A lot of countries relationships and respect for the US is permanently damaged. There is a lot less certainty on your reliability for the future. 

[u/ej200]

Putting him in jail for the rest of his days would go a long way.

[u/All_will_be_Juan]

I refuse to let the Republicans white wash trump away as an oopsie daisy trump was a symptom not the cause of everything that has happened in the last decade the Republicans have absolutely been pushing for this fascist state that cuts public health and consumer protections and funnels money to the wealthy

[u/Tevihn]

He's an American problem. But he's not the root of it. Capital is the root.

Everything else are downstream symptoms of unregulated Capitalism.

Edit: I want to add that people love to point at Americans, and/or American leadership, and say that they are a global problem and they're the reason the world is like this.

I hate to break it to you, but almost every single country in the world is dealing with the same problems the US is. Because like I said, this is a Capitalism problem, and the world is controlled by Capital.

With very few exceptions, your country is doing the same shit that the US is doing - or is at least okay with it - , and has been doing, for decades.

But it's easy to blame the country that receives more international media attention than any other country in the world. And so they do.

Meanwhile the UN applauds Trump as he talks about never allowing Iran to have Nuclear weapons, and how we're going to eradicate them.

Wake up, people.

[u/Weltall8000]

We are not getting our reputation back.

We need to accept this. We fucked up, and things will never be the same. We need to do better, but that golden age is over, and we are not getting it back.

[u/Amethyst_Scepter]

It will not take years to get our reputation back. We're not getting it pack period. The whole world watched as we backflipped willingly and enthusiastically into this mess and how we were one election from near total dictatorship.

We torched a century of standing in less than a decade as the world begged us not to. We are unreliable, unpredictable, and worst of all dangerous. No one will ever trust us again.

And we deserve it.

[u/Elavia_]

You will never get back to what you had. Trump destroyed all the soft power you held since ww2 when you were by far the largest economy. China and EU have filled in the vacuum - even if you manage to kick him out (which I heavily doubt) you'll only partially recover.

[u/DonnyMox]

VOTE BLUE!

[u/rolyatem]

Donald Trump is not the problem.

The problem is the tens of millions who voted for him, and the people (corporate leaders, media members) who manipulated those voters into that choice.

Donald Trump will be gone one day. Those other groups will still persist and muck things up when he does go.

[u/Bruno_Coast_127]

I honestly think the USA's reputation has been permanently tarnished by this administration. There is no going back, because Trump and his lackeys are a product of this country's mentality

We had this coming for sooo many years, and so many artists, comedians, etc. had warned us about this. And yet we let it happen anyway

[u/RadioCaroline721]

That’s the plan. He’s a Russian asset getting Vlads revenge for what Ron did in the 80s

[u/SkyOk7297]

it is his fault gas prices went up in whole europe! Because he is always causing conflicts just to make money