China spend $50 billion on researching chip production last year because of policies instated by Trump in his first term!
Canada has cancelled their F35 program, and is looking for non US supplier of their fighter jets.
EU has decided to become independent of USA on military equipment, making their own equipment instead of buying from USA.
Tesla sales have dropped almost 50% in Europe, and Tesla is very unlikely to ever came back to their leading position in Europe again.

George Bush wasn’t nearly as bad as Trump, but USA misled the world under him regarding Iraq, Obama was VERY popular in Europe, but despite that relations weren’t completely restored in 2 terms with Obama. Bush broke trust with comments like if you aren’t with us you’re against us.

Trump was much worse already the first term. Talk of abandoning NATO, not respecting article 5, pandering to Russia, withdrawing from the Paris agreement. And in general undermining democracy. USA lost leadership under Trump, and it didn’t recover with biden.

So don’t think for a second that the harm from Trump’s first term was repaired by Biden. Although we did return more to business as usual with Biden.

Now Trump has within only 3 months managed to piss off everybody. China is opposing USA directly, which they never did before, and EU has declared a goal of independence from USA, which was talked about the first time Trump was president, but now was decided very quickly because Trump cut off aid to Ukraine. Europe simply can’t rely on USA anymore, and the decision to work towards independence is final. The ol PAX Americana can never be restored, and the soft power USA had because USA was supported by many allies can never be restored either.

As another lemmy poster wrote, imagine you are in a loving relationship with a partner you trust. But suddenly one morning when you get up, your partner punches you hard in the face without reason. That relationship can never go back to what it was.

USA can absolutely make friends and trade with everybody like before. But the trust and soft power USA had built after WW2 for 50 years was already shaken under George W. Bush, mostly restored by Obama, but then shaken badly with Trump first term, and now destroyed by Trump 2nd term.

Mind you this is not just Trump, Trump won the popular vote, and is representing USA by democratic election. So it’s the American people that has shown that USA isn’t to be trusted as we used to trust it.

To rebuild that trust, a fundamental change is needed in USA. A shift in ideology in the population and probably also a much improved democracy, that doesn’t surrender so much power based on the election of 1 person.

Trump has made history already, but unfortunately it is not the good kind.