Can't be done by the next us president.

This is gonna be decades.

Gaining trust starts with accountability. People who have abused their position of power need appropriate punishment and be made to pay for the damage they have done.

We have taken a "let's just move on" strategy too often in the past. The American people aren't going to buy it this time.

As far as trust for America the country is concerned, holding guilty parties accountable will help that too, but mostly what it will take is time.

US citizen living abroad. Not going to happen in one presidential term and the US has probably permanently fucked itself in terms of special currency/status/soft power ever getting back to the level it was.

No, the age of America is over.

The Trump preaidencies aren't a radical break from the past, he's just an unveiling of it's darkest, ugliest, impulses and the logical conclusion of its ideals.

Maybe European mainstream leaders can convince themselves to get back into bed with US imperialism, as we benefit from it so much, but US in the eyes of the people never recovered post Iraq II, and across the whole world the US is now primarily seen as the demagogic bully that it is.

The US must learn to get along with its neighbours and treat other nations and people with respect.

The fact you guys are still treating Trump as a "one off" is wild.

To the rest of the world that's the image of Americans, for decades now.

A complete overhaul of the electoral process that allowed fascists to gain complete control.

A complete overhaul of the society that became so sick that they willingly put the fascists there. Twice.

A complete overhaul of the elittest pedophile bi/trillionaire class that has unfettered control over every branch of state and federal government and meddles in foreign affairs across the globe.

In short: The USA would need to be torn down and rebuilt.

Even if a completely sane, smart, and wonderful president were elected, and every country loved them, why would they trust us? We are always one crazy election away from... well, this.

• New Nuremberg trials for all in, and allies propping up, the former regime

• Transparent audit of everything trump broke and real-time checklist of process to restore critical needs, prioritizing human lives.

• A lasting and appropriate punishment for trump himself

• Recovering the funds to do all of the above from trump and complicit billionaires in the private sector - starting with musk for his own crimes against humanity.

• A job corp to employ all of the AI layoffs, similar to the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps. Needs a healthy vetting to avoid left over trump chuds

• Expand the Supreme Court

• End Citizens United

• All trump appointees, in all positions, are removed from offices immediately. If not convicted in new Nuremberg trials, they can still reapply for positions and be consists as any other

• The demolished east wing will be rebuilt as a simple building and used as a museum to the attrocities that trump committed and the people and institutions that enabled him. An artist will be commissioned to design a pitch black facade, perhaps in the shape of the old building. It should look out of place and awkward, and stand forever as a sort of black eye on America. To show how the nation was injured and not cover it up. There will be legislation to perpetually fund the museum and make admission free to all.

The future will require a simple understanding - there was not an equivalency here, no two valid sides. The was objective wrong and right. No more pretending

Do you mean within the US or trust internationally?

The rest of the world has begrudgingly let the US dominate world commerce, culture, and morality. Now they're realizing how much of their own identity they've given away, and are struggling to recover from it. Critically, even if the US ever gets their shit together again, nobody else wants to go back to the same relationship they had. We've been forced out of an abusive relationship, and now we're free.

Simple: refrain from doing any stupid shit for half a century. Any stupid shit will kick the timer backwards 70% of the elapsed time.

(There really is no other way)

Start by rolling back every shit executive order Trump made.

Make it safe for us Canadian to go on vacation in the USA again.

Prosecute Trump's entire cabinet.

Only speaking for myself, the following are necessary, but not sufficient:

• Hand him over to the International Court of Justice, along with his entire regime. *...including Schumer and Fetterman.
• Initiate prosecution of the actual criminals without fear or favor: ICE, cops, Musk, DOGE, wage-thieving employers, et cetera.
• Lock up the billionaires. Don't be a lawless dictator, though, there is 110% some good, legal reason that can be found. (But shoot 'em if they resist.)
• Bomb the IDF out of existence and round up illegal foreign agents (AIPAC, et al.)

I have suggestions if they want to get serious on Day 2, as well.

To fix it quickly you are going to have to abuse your power immediately like Republicans have. But you are also going to need at minimum a majority in the house and Senate, preferably a supermajority which I doubt that happens.

Prosecute traitors immediately.

Immediately expand the supreme court

Help install safeguards so this never happens again. Like for presidential nominess for secretary of defense or education. Only select people who work in that field and with knowledge of the job can nominate people for consideration and the president can only hire those nominated

Sorry for the wall of text, but I've been thinking a lot about what we would have to do to redeem America in the eyes of its citizens, the world, and history. In order to do that, MAGA must be fully crushed, and purged from our government and society. Nothing less is acceptable.

First of all, MAGA must be dealt with as the ongoing National Security Threat that it genuinely is. They are responsible for a violent Insurrection, and the theft of hundreds of classified documents, as well as breath-taking corruption, that they don't even bother to hide. They are a treasonous organization that must be treated like the Nazis or the KKK, and essentially prohibited from existing. Their leaders should be arrested and imprisoned for their crimes.

In addition, the election fraud from the 2024 election must be exposed, and the Trump administration declared invalid. That will roll back ALL EOs, legislation, appointments, SCOTUS decisions, etc. It will be like the second Trump administration didn't exist.

And that includes his Pardons, which are all criminal cover ups. ALL Trump pardons are invalid, and those criminals have to return to serve out their sentences. Anyone who doesn't voluntarily surrender, will be charged with escape, and get another decade attached to their sentence with no time off for good behavior or parole. Every pardon will be investigated, and anyone found to have paid a bribe of any kind, will get additional charges, as well as anyone who facilitated the payments, such as family members, accountants, lawyers, politicians, etc.

Anyone involved in the January 6 insurrection will be declared prohibited from holding public office, per the 14th Amendment, Section 3. Anyone who amplified the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen, the primary motivation of the Insurrection, is complicit, and is prohibited from public office. If you EVER said that Trump won the 2020 election, and/or the Democrats stole it, then you were an active participant in the Insurrection, and you can't hold office. If you are in a debate, and you are asked who won the 2020 election, and you say Trump, you are instantly disqualified. If you were instrumental in planning or organizing the Insurrection, then it's life in prison.

That includes every single person who spoke at the rally just before the Insurrection. Remember that video of them all in the backstage tent before the rally? Every single one of those people should serve life prison sentences. They were laughing and partying, as they honestly thought they were launching a violent attack that would result in the deaths of numerous politicians, including the VP, and the end of our democratic government, so they could install Trump as dictator for life. The very top leaders should be publicly executed.

With all those MAGAs instantly out of office due to 14A, and MAGAs not allowed to ever hold office, it will take a while for whatever new conservative party organizes (the Republicans were just the larval stage of MAGA, so they're dead, too), and starts to run candidates that qualify under 14A/S3, and anti-MAGA laws. That gives the Dems the opportunity to pass all sorts of legislation to get America on a decent moral path into the future. Part of it will be laws that codify certain rights that conservatives have tried to suppress, like reproductive rights, immigrant rights, workers rights, etc.

And we have to pass strong anti-corruption laws, and that starts by changing the way we treat wealth in this country. Sociopathic Oligarchs have untreated OCD Hoarding syndrome, which manifests as financial hoarding, and it is become bad enough that it is having serious detrimemtal impacts on the majority of the citizens of the WORLD. We can't do anything about it in other countries, but we can certainly change things on America.

If someone was hoarding cats, or rusty old appliances, etc, to the point that it was affecting the lifestyles and property values of their neighbors, the authorities would step in and end it. We need to do that with financial hoarders. We need to confiscate their hoards, and redistribute it. Just like all those cats need to find nice families, we can find better uses for that Sociopathic Oligarch money.

The wealthy think we serve them, and we have to make them understand that they keep their wealth at the pleasure of the people, and the minute that wealth is not serving the people, it will be entirely confiscated, and the Sociopathic Oligarch will be imprisoned. Further, their family will be prevented from accessing public assistance, scholarships, etc. They will be officially destitute.

Sociopathic Oligarchs who have already egregiously violated the public trust (Trump, of course, Musk, Theil, Ellison, Bezos, Zuckerfuck, etc.) will have their entire hoards fully confiscated immediately, and their fortunes used to rebuild America, and provide the seed funding for social programs like free healthcare, daycare, college/trade school, UBI, etc.

Wealth will be HEAVILY taxed, not work. Workers under a certain income will pay no income tax, that will be covered by the wealthy and corporations. Anyone found to hiding wealth in offshore/ foreign banks, will have their entire hoard confiscated, and they will be imprisoned.

We will no longer fund ANYTHING for capitalists. They can pay for what they want. No more stadiums, no more tax breaks, nothing but heavy taxes on your profits, AND your personal revenue. We pay for services for the people FIRST, and whatever is leftover can be allocated to the military and such, but not one penny will ever go to billionaires or they corporations.

It is also imperative that we pass strong Campaign Finance Reform, which is the single issue from which ALL other issues flow. We must prohibit money in campaigns, and tightly regulate them regarding length, and campaign language. The kind of lies and rhetoric we heard from Trump will result in immediate disqualification from the campaign.

And to prevent this all from happening again 50 years in the future, the educational curriculum will be created and administered by the Federal government. 2+2=4, CAT spells cat in every state, we don't need 50 different curriculums. That just allows Red states to teach treasonous, racist propaganda. The new curriculum will have a strong emphasis on Critical Thinking Skills, including how to recognize and reject propaganda. It will also teach proper history, including Slavery and the Native American Genocide, with an emphasis on acknowledging those atrocities so that they can't happen again.

All of this can be done without running afoul of our laws or the Constitution, it just takes the political courage and will to do it. The American people want it, we just have to force our political representatives to do what they are told, and to do that, we have to make them fear us. If you have Dem in the House or Senate who is a cowardly weenie, vote them out in the primary, in favor of an angry reformer. Let's send a bunch of pissed off Democrats to DC to kick ass in BOTH parties.

Next? This is gonna be a generational problem. Once trust is broken you can't buy it back.

Arrest and convict everyone involved with the Epstein administration. Cede the power that was grabbed by the executive branch under that administration and create laws preventing it from happening again. Push for impeachments of three supreme court justices that have abused the shadow docket.

Fix the American government, education system, and legal system.

Thanklessly.

It won’t be fixed in one term, probably not two, maybe see it start to work a decade after they leave office.

It’s going to take years to earn back trust, but no matter what happens, America will never have the power it used to have.

Within America would be pretty easy, you just have to listen to your constituent demands and acknowledge them publicly with proper respect. Like how Mamdani was literally the only candidate who wasn't shilling for Israel and actually explained his policy which people wanted.

Internationally, lol it was already down the gutter post WWII. Kind of hard to realive foreign leaders you already assasinated.

Arrest every single notable trump cabinet member and media dicksuck. Then investigate everything trump touched and prosecute it all. Investigate all the tech companies. I would need to see multiple CEO level people being put in a jail cell to even begin to regain some trust. They need to regulate their fucking monopolies and enforce some anti trust and clean up their broadcast regulation. It cannot be the case that these people can go online and spread the most insane lies over and over without punishment.

Clarify their position on the world stage and if Trumps actions were contrary to that then they need to diplomatically bridge that gap. Rejoin the climate accords, rejoin nato and apologize to the world.

Then I would be open to eventually re trusting them.

Head down to the Winchester, have a pint and let it all blow over.

In all seriousness, this is irreparable damage that will take more than a few terms to put right, that's even if you have an administration that is willing to make amends. The entirety of this administration needs purging. Every single one, from the supreme court, to the FBI, CIA...anyone with any links or support for the current leeches in power.

It's going to have to be a decades long process. Which is probably why it won't happen, because we'll need a consistent restraint and level headedness over multiple presidencies. Which won't happen, best case scenario is a Democrat wins the next two and then the replaced by Republican who is just going to be Trump part 2. It will never recover.

A complete rewrite of the constitution. The 'American Experiment' is a failure. Start again.

Unrealistic, I know, but Trump has revealed the massive fundamental flaws in your system that was born from racism and genocide.

Severe and thorough retribution.

Republicans MUST pay.

It won't happen in my lifetime because your guardrails failed at all levels, including voters. A vile president is supported by hypocrite judges, confirmed by a spineless legislature, voted in by amoral voters. 20 years ago Republicans were the "family values" party. There were issues with that, but it was a given they wouldn't threaten allies, meme themselves as Christ, celebrate war crimes, promote gambling, be pedophiles, be brazenly corrupt, etc. Then they, and their voters, shed their morals like snakes molting. Even if somehow they started acting like right and wrong were real concepts again, I won't trust them to not shed that again when it's convenient.

put current administartion in jail to a man, abolish both parties, start extensive campaign rooting out the corruption and influence of the rich from your country. 2/3 of those at least.

At this point, its impossible.

Something every single person on Earth, especially Americans, needs to learn and make peace with this simple fact:

The American empire has fallen

Pax-Americana is permanently over

The literal best case scenario for the USA now is a postwar Germany situation. No longer a superpower, but a steady somewhat socialist state that mostly keeps to itself.

The one X factor that may give America an edge to recovery is the same X factor that enabled its success to begin with:

America is large and America is relatively geographically isolated from all other major powers

No, they’ve lost it. Europe will turn to themselves and everyone else will turn to China. America’s never getting this back.

That would be a good start. Continue with fixing your country, and be nice to those outside your borders. Even the US cannot survive on its own.

Restore the rule of law, and make sure traitors like Trump end up behind bars. No mercy for those who had no mercy with others.

I've been thinking about it. It's not good enough to say "Sorry, last guy was a dipshit." Especially since the majority of people in the US think he is a dipshit right now.

I think we would need to remove said dipshit from power, and prosecute him to the fullest extent of the law. Then remove anyone who knew he was a dipshit and had responsibility to say/do something about it, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law where appropriate. Then find anyone that supported the dipshit in exchange for favors from the dipshit, and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.

After all that, then we need to get laws in place that prevent this kind of dipshittery from happening again. Specifically, we need heavy penalties for election campaign finance and ethics violations. Ranked choice voting seems like a pretty good way to prevent us from having to a choose between the two least likeable assholes in the country to lead us. Big money needs to be out of politics, remove Citizens United, remove the ability of corporations to make campaign contributions, and maybe even make campaign finances be paid out of a government fund where each a candidate gets an equal amount.

Once we've removed the dipshits, and prevented the possibility of a dipshit getting elected again, the last ingredient for this redemption recipe is time. People aren't just going to forget what has happened. We need to demonstrate consistent stability and sanity in both our foreign and domestic politics for at least a decade or two.

I don't think all of this will happen TBH. A more realistic redemption is a complete restructure of the United States, and probably a separation into a few different countries, varying in sanity from a solarpunk future state to the religious-zealot-lead redneckistan.

Probably not a lot. I remember 2009 well enough that if the events of that year are any indication, the next US president will just get a Nobel Peace Price for the achievement of not being Donald Trump.

The next President would need to pass a massive bill dedicated to anti- corruption laws with real criminal consequences. This includes the entire house. No more shareholders. No more felons in politics.

Then two term limits for the Congress and Senate.

Then a bill that limits executive orders, and elimination of presidential pardons.

This would change the entire way the US government has worked in 250 years.

By throwing the last one under the bus. Literally.

It just won't happen. Our institutions are weak and very subject to outside influence. Everyone in the world can see it.

If our corrupt oligarchs allow an election, the next president will still have to deal with their financial power, the private electronic surveillance state they control, their overwheming control of our very corrupt court system, etc.

If the dems were interested in fixing the problem it would take focused effort over multiple terms. The dems are not interested in fixing the problem. This is just who we are as a nation-state.

Trust by who? Europe? China? US citizens?

For Europe we will probably go back to normal trade relationship after a few terms without a MAGA.

European defense will prioritise domestic spending, which was probably the intention because we can then sell you bombs if you end up in a conflict with China.

European IT spending will also favour domestic stuff instead of American companies for a very long time, but without any upside like the arms industry.

US has always acted like a villain. CIA overthrowing governments, NSA spying on EU companies/politicians with US admitting they did for "US interests" (maximizing US companies' profits by cheating the rest of us); arming terrorist groups and just causing chaos around the world or if self-interest while we have to pretend we're OK with it or they will cut of trade. They are the only western country that uses torture as official policy, doesn't think food and shelter are you human rights etc etc.

And people mostly don't care or forget very quickly. Next time elect someone who can speak full sentences and is not so blatantly corrupt, show some goodwill, and people will forget within months.

This is a downfall, you guys haven't even reached the lowest point yet. You already talk about getting back up. This is what's great about America. But the real answer is: Trump isn't alone and was openly racist, misogynistic, dumb and indecent about it all. It's the fact that he was able to even start considering a career in politics that needs to be addressed.

Showering the world with gifts and promises isn't going to change anything. If we're all just waiting for the next fucker to arrive. You have to do something far more substantial like giving up veto rights, or something stupid like that. Which would be completely idiotically desperate lost-the-war type of concessions in peace time.

The fact of the matter is that this isn't going to happen and all the world can hope for is that things calm down and the internal temsions in the country come to a conclusion the world can support.

Start by IMPRISONING those that let this happen. Every single complicit PoS politician who willingly went along with the Pedo Party in order to make money. Disgusting vile filth deserve to be on prison for the rest of their lives.

All of them jailed and all of their ill-gotten gains taken from them.