The funders who funded him, the think tanks that created his policy, the media that propagandizes his voters, the voters that vote for him, none of those are going away, and the feedback loops connecting them don’t seem likely to be stopping anytime soon.

Hundreds of years of what?

I mean, we can very extremely petty when slighted.

Trump is a symptom of a problem in the US that has been developing since the 80s. When he dies the problem doesn’t go away

Maybe not overnight, but all friends begin as strangers.

The issue with the US isn’t exactly Trump himself, it’s that nearly half of American voters endorse him and that there’s a line of vying inheritors for his brand of politics forming.

Trade, foreign, and domestic policy in the US can now be reasonably assumed to turn on a dime every few years, and that’s exposure to risk that nobody wants to deal with.

Even within the four years, we’re like three months in and the man is rapidly changing his mind on the fundamentals of intercountry relationships. Whether he’s manipulating markets, trying to force capitulation somehow, or something else is irrelevant - other countries are more stable and those relationships can provide what’s needed.

It’s not. Most competent leaders have seen that there’s no benefit to feeding Trump’s shenanigans for our ever dwindling economic power. It’s literally basic economics that competition will reduce the price each empire will set, so most economies will be better off now that Trump officially ushered in a multipolar world