Fred99:

 

Some expert opinion from an article in Business Insider

 

 

We elected someone who devalues and denigrates our core allies and partners. While other Republican elected officials – and some members of the administration – voice support for American allies and traditional American international values, they certainly aren’t checking Trump in the way that foreign allies and partners hoped. 

 

 

 

It will be hard to reverse the gains of dictators and opportunists who take advantage of Trump policies to extend their influence,” Rothkopf said. “And it will take a long time for the world to trust US stability again … several election cycles for them to tell whether Trump was an aberration or just a symptom of a greater problem with America.

 

 

 

Trump does have the capacity to do “long-term damage to our alliances, our crucial international relationships and the international system that has been essential to our peace and stability since World War Two

 

 

 

Trump has done permanent damage to America’s global standing, but said that in electing him as president, the US essentially demonstrated it’s not capable of choosing “competent” leaders

 

 

 

Put simply, we will regress and spend lots of time trying to recover

 

 

If all this expert opinion is where its at, then its permanent? Well, ok. Not sure how it can be permanent damage as well as long term damage.  It also implies that the world did not see Trump as evil, they see the US as evil. Given that Trump is so much a POTUS that stands out like a sore toe for so many reasons, you would feel that the world will be glad to get rid of him and get back to normal, but if this expert opinion says when he has gone its still long term damage and permanent damage, that makes no sense. It implies Trump was just a worse POTUS and everybody else was bad anyway. BTW the US was never well trusted anyway