What bad things happened in the world when the Donald Trump was in the White House?
Only things I can recollect are:
(a) Covid which happened everywhere
and
(b) a riot.
cutlass mentioned foreign policy, and i guess i may want to make a note on that.
he nearly destroyed eu relations.
now, trump is a buffoon and this is a problem in itself, but let's ignore his uh cadence and focus on his ability to negotiate.
his idea of dealings is a system of showing authority through arbitrary demands (such as the will he-won't he thing he's been doing with the kamala harris debate thing), harsh carrot-stick enforcement (the tariff thing comes off), the ukraine call, stuff like that. when you are in a bargaining position with one other person that depends on your agreement, this can be a powerful method of negotiation (even if it's vile; let's ignore that for now). like if you're an employer and knows your employee needs your job, you can outline psychologically that you're making the rules. it's very 80s business book school, it's actually very well-known and classical behavior, even if trump's actual speech patterns are, uh, not. however, that's also the issue with such a practice; it only work in a closed system. if there is
one other more lenient option, the other party will tend to go there. this scales in bad the more other options you have; and in the case of the international community (where there are literally 100s of parties just on a state level), it's bad to the Nth degree.
so that's an outline of his actual method, right? that's all just garbled theory on my end. you wanted a consequence? during the summit in eu, like
during it, merkel did an impromptu general speech basically channeling what the eu realized what they were dealing with; that the us were not a reliable leader anymore as an international position. this was 2018.
trump's diplomatic performance was so absolutely abysmal that he f*ing lost the goddamn eu as a pseudosubservient element. even if the us doesn't care about the military participation (which is consistently understated by people like trump), the eu is an absolutely massive market that the us is very much involved in. one might want to be on good terms with the eu to trade there, y'know. the us used to have a special position there, both being on good terms, having mutual interests
and being in a leading position internationally. now, irt leadership - bluntly, i'm not so sure anymore.
people don't much talk about this because there's been
so many god damn incidents that it tends to blend together. on your very two notes, there's also like the details of them, which i think belies an insane understatement of how awful both were. trump's lack of response/antivaxx buttkissing caused quite the # of infections (both leading to deaths and chronic side effects, the latter people think to ignore); for "a riot", i haven't forgotten unmarked cars arresting protesters and disappearing them (yes, they showed up again, no, that doesn't make it goochie).
EDIT: oh, your reference to "a riot" was january 6th. i was discussing another, and how it was handled (where, interestingly, it was much harsher dealt with than a maga voterbase storming the goddamn capital). i'd argue that's even more of an understatement of how alarming his presidency is than the others i was thinking about. "a riot" is doing quite the heavy lifting there.
you're not very clear here, to be, well, clear.
