Can relate, don't trust the us and I live here.

Trump’s still there.

If the democrats don’t prosecute him and every single one of his cronies, there is no reason to trust America ever again.

Oh, it’s going to take years, if not decades, to repair the damage dumbfuck has done.

Yeah .... I'm not trusting American to do anything right any more. They keep repeating the pattern of 'do stupid things', 'keep doing stupid things', 'hey guys I've stopped doing stupid things and I'm going to give you hope', ... then revert back to 'do stupid things' again ... over and over.

It wouldn't be so bad with any other country. The problem with the US is that they have such a big effect on the rest of the world due to the size of their military. It's like having a really dumb neighbour and you can't say or do anything about them because they have a really unhealthy number of machine guns and military grade weapons in, on and all over their house that everyone can see.

You'd have to be a fool to trust the US again based on this. Getting the democrats to actually make progress on anything is not usually a winning bet.

What does this change?

Like 20 million people actually came out and voted, which is great, but the system is exactly the same.

So how can we trust the US when frankly, never in its history has the US punished their leaders or this tore off behaviour.

For a country that brags about checks and balances, I’ve watched your leaders sell pardons, pardon each other, and your Supreme Court decided the president is immune to consequences.

I lined the day one sober comment, but the US isn’t even sober.

Just because the midterms didn’t go Trump’s way doesn’t mean US citizens have changed.

Most people who voted Republican in 2024 and Democratic in this year’s midterms did so for economic reasons, not because the Republicans in power are fascists, not because they disagree with what Trump has said over the last two years.

Trump is not a disease that has befallen the US and everything is fine if it’s removed. US citizens voted for him. They wanted what he promised: to make America great again and let someone else pay the price.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cbs-news-exit-polls-2026-midterms-democrats/

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/us-midterms-2026-what-motivated-voters-poll-points-to-economy-democracy-trump-backlash/articleshow/135528592.cms

US history both recent and distant taught me that the US was never to be trusted. Trump is merely the icing on a really shitty cake.

Why do so many US citizens believe their country was amazing until Trump came along? Read your own history FFS.

Trust won't return until systemic changes that made Trump possible are in place, and accountability for those who raped people and this nation happens. These midterms were a good necessary first step along the way. That's it.

Nor should they. Not until we've shown real, sustained change. Trump is still in charge and like 30-40% of the country are apparently irredeemably awful.

I didn't trust the US government even before trump

It's gonna take a minute. These people are not even in office yet.

And donnie and his accomplices are going to do who knows what in the next 2+ years...

Please for the love of all that is good do not ever just trust us.

Make us fucking earn that trust, if you even want to entertain the idea.

Stop treating us like we are special, don't enable us... it will help us recover from this crippling 'American Exceptionalism' we have suffered from for so very long.

Nah, mate, this isn't enough, not even when you vote out Trump. You guys gotta clean up your corruption, actually punish the violators, and restore the institutions and policies they have destroyed, along with restitution to the victims, including the foreign ones.

Otherwise, why would we trust you not to do it all again?

We haven't actually done anything yet. We have picked people we believe will do the exact opposite of what the last batch we picked are doing.

The big question is if the new batch waiver or foolishly think they will survive the decade if they follow the standard Democrat Party playbook of empty promises, appeasement, and spinelessness.

The bulk of the other politicians in 1930s Germany didn't have a good time after letting a psychotic minority party seize control.

MAGA is a violent but relatively tiny party inside of a smaller political faction that survives through gerrymandering and exploiting our anachronic election system. The Nazis gained control because no one opposed them. The question is if the existing politicians will get out of the way and accept the mandate of the people.

Not sure why there's distrust now, Kissinger said decades ago

It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.

It's a start, maybe even a good one, but there's a awful lot of work left to be done. Bare minimum, there's a lot of norms to codify and a lot of corruption to clean up before former allies will want to reconsider the US as a potential reliable partner again.

We are at least two years from anyone being able to START to trust our country again. In order for that to happen, we will have to not only have to give the government over to the Dems, but we have to make sure that MAGA can never rise again.

It is clear that MAGA is an ongoing, enthusiastic National Security Threat, and that's BEFORE we embark on the next two years, in which PeeWee Himmler is going to unleash unspeakable violence on the American people in an attempt to crush us, and eliminate elections.

When we get our country back, we will have to prohibit MAGA from existing, and anyone associated with MAGA must be purged from our government. They are Domestic Terrorists, by their own admission, and our elected officials take an oath to protect us from all threats, "Foreign and Domestic," and MAGA is exactly what they mean by Domestic.

When we've purged MAGA, and passed laws that will shore up the weaknesses in our government that MAGA exposed and exploited (like increasing SCOTUS), and we start acting responsibly toward the rest of the world, then maybe the rest of the world can start to trust us.

We've got a lot of work to do to restore America's reputation and place in the Free World.

Good, they elected a known child-rapist and 37-time convicted felon, ffs.

Yeah, and it's unfortunately deserved. Why make any long term deals with America when someone unhinged could get elected and take a sledgehammer to everything anyway. It will take DECADES for America to regain the trust of the rest of the world

The US has only just had the midterms.

The rest of the world needs to see actual change before we even consider trusting the US with anything. Once trust is lost, you don't get it back overnight.

We, as in the rest of the world, might start to do so once we see the current Junta hang and all their affiliates thrown into the deepest, darkest Oubliette.
Otherwise, we will just assume that you will bring in a new round of the worst and most despicable conservatives and pedophile rapists in 2-6 years.

It takes a bit more than just some voting to regain the world's trust that your favourite nations past time hasn't become "Heil'ing" around and snacking Lead paint chips of the walls

Don't trust us until Trump is gone. Even then, probably don't trust us.

The world should not trust the US yet, still a lot of bought and paid for Democrats standing in the way of justice, laws, and the Constitution.

The problem is: the party has changed, but has politics actually changed, too?

We know the Democrats to be toothless enough to think about rolling out the carpet for Trump instead of actually dealing with him.

So we'll just wait in how far they reign in their chief degenerate. If they stop his unnecessary wars, put limits to AI, scrap tariffs, and some other things out of Trumps pot of stupid ideas, we are open to talk again.

Just standing and watching when Trump sells Ukraine and us to his favorite dictator Putin will not make them friends here.

What are they even talking about? Tariffs are still there, EU passed laws that force countries to buy European weapons, they are finalizing a deal with Canada. Foreign policy is like a container ship, not a sports car. It took a lot of time to turn it around and it will not turn again anytime soon. The world is not going to just "trust America again". It will take years to sign new deals and pass new laws and it will start only when US shows they are willing to seat at the table and talk which won't happen in the next 2 years.

I'm not struggling. It's not my responsibility to put any effort into this at all. I'll trust America when they've fixed the things that make them untrustworthy.

Which unfortunately includes their electorate, so that's going to take a while.

If there is one thing our country does that stands out from other developed nations — we don’t hold power to account. When we do that, we may get respect of other nations and democracy, and the great experiment, may survive.

A republic, if you can keep it.

— Ben Franklin

Nothing's gonna change. For me to think things are starting to change, this had to be a blue supermajority. It wasn't. It was a close call. Blue won, but it wasn't a victory so big that they got a supermajority in both houses which means there's a fucking huge portion of usians still believing in maga.

This means we might have a 2-year pause from the US of doing awful things (MIGHT), but there won't be a guarantee in the next elections they choose again another pedohitler.

It takes years to build trust and only a moment to shatter it. This next two years will be key to see if you are starting to rebuild that trust, but unless you purge the present administration and set in place the foundations for this to never happen again, this will not be considered a good start; just a pause in your shitty dictatorship.

Shit, don't trust us until you have the receipts, world. We are just now trying to target the Democrats that always operated as Democrats, but really were just pretending for profit. The other side of the oligarch coin.

To ensure that these Republocrats understand America is giving them a pass to attempt to stand by their alleged word and earn our trust.

++D doesn't mean America is going to function again. Cleaning up D has to happen first. (Jeffries, Schumer, et. al.)

Don't.

Not yet.

Let us earn a spot at the table by showing we can prosecute criminals and hold the corrupt and powerful to account.

Why exactly would we trust the US again? All we know for sure is that SOME fascist-loving racist pedophile admirers hate high prices.

All hope gained after the midterms died with Miller's promotion. Everything you need to know in that one single action.

Why trust America, full stop? Develop manufacturing and digital sovereignty.

Don't. It ain't over.

I never trusted you

Maybe the world can tell that both US political parties are in the pockets of the same people.

If gas were cheap right now the Republicans would still have won more seats. The average voter has a 1 month attention span and until that changes it's a coinflip of if America will be evil or not. We just have to hope the cards fall right for gas prices to be cheap when the dems are in I guess 🤷

Why would anyone trust us? We elected Trump, elected someone else, and elected Trump again. We've already demonstrated that a good election or two is no reason to trust us. Gotta wait until we're actually rid of the rot

Hold the animals in the administration responsible for their crimes and we'll think about it.

The change in relationship between the international community and USA is happening more than just from Trumpism. This is the American retreat. Structural forces inside USA and outside are such that this is inevitable in the coming decades.

you shouldnt trust america until we ask for your guillotine maintenance experts.

Stop spreading this bait garbage.

Lol, nope, not trusting you people again for a long, LONG time.

Right now you've done the absolute bare minimum blip.

The rest of the world will judge based on your patterns of behavior going forward.

I would just like to say that that this has been a very interesting discussion, and I'm glad to see how civil it’s been.

I don't think the world trusted America before Trump, they're not stupid.

They hope for the best, but they've all seen what we do at home and abroad. I still wince over how we have betrayed the Kurds (repeatedly, since 1920s).

On the other hand, we have been a bit better than the prior world police heavyweights (UK, Spain)

It’s not time to trust us. We still have a shitload of Dems who are basically part of the gop. Corporate dems are essentially republicans with favorable attitudes towards identity politics. These people are effectively part of the meta party which is comprised of people who are Neo liberals and believe in trickle down economics and the vaunting of corporations and the wealthy. They will do everything they can to keep the status quo and assist Trump as controlled opposition. Class war is first. Without cleaning up these people and addressing wealth and corporate person hood the U.S. will not change its trajectory.

That’s fair and we just taking the first step to get our shit back together so we can start building trust again.

Yeah, well, we haven't seated the new congress yet. So, it's gonna be a while before we see what they do.

It's going to take serious systemic change for this to not happen again, and I'm not convinced they have it in them to throw the book at the people who did all of this.