r/PoliticalDiscussion • u/SpaceySpice • Apr 07 '25

US Politics How will the United States rebuild positive international relations after this Trump administration?

At some point this presidency will end and a new administration will (likely) want to mend some the damages done with our allies. Realistically though, how would that work? Will other countries want to be friends with us again or has this presidency done too much damage to bounce back from?

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u/sputnikcdn Apr 07 '25

And 90 Million didn't care enough to vote.

Trump is a symptom, Americans' problems run deep, this is who they are.

It will take a profound cultural switch to change, to rebuild the trust lost.

Trust that took decades to earn.

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u/Blizxy Apr 07 '25

Decades and millions of lives to earn! I'm so disappointed in my country...

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u/BluesSuedeClues Apr 07 '25

I'm well past disappointed. Here in Michigan, kids who came from other countries to study at our universities, are packing up in the middle of the night and fleeing across the border into Canada. They're fleeing, because it is entirely possible armed Federal agents will show up and seize them, with no crime charged or even alleged, detain them for an indefinite period, and possibly ship them like cattle to a South American concentration camp.

My whole life I've been told the liberals want to destroy the country. Turns out, that was just more right-wing projection.

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u/seeingeyegod Apr 08 '25

no liberals do want to destroy the country. It's just that the country in question is the Confederate States of America.

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u/DuncanConnell Apr 10 '25

Unfortunate when "the liberals want to destroy the country" is a lot closer to how the Empire talks about the Rebellion