Do you remember that annoying child who appears in every film? 

That 12 or 13-year-old kid who’s always throwing a tantrum, who’s designed for you to hate, like Dudley, the cousin in “Harry Potter;” who doesn’t add anything to the story but just makes you hate him. 

Well, unfortunately, that child is now sitting in the chair of the Oval Office. 

The last few weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency have been among the most turbulent in the modern history of international geopolitics. The number of mistakes and wrong decisions made is so large that it is no longer possible to talk about them in a single document.

Let’s forget for a moment the management of the economy, decline in tourism, interest rates, tariffs, employment stagnation, Epstein files and immigration policy, and focus on Trump’s new fetish: international politics. 

First, there is the fiasco of “eight wars over in eight months.” Even today, the Albanian prime minister must remember when Trump “ended” his war with Azerbaijan – when, in fact, the other side was Armenia. In the end, Trump not only failed to help with any peace treaty, but instead allowed several of these conflicts to escalate or just invented them from his mind.

Then, there is the resounding failure of his intervention in the Russo-Ukrainian war, the consequence of which is the partial strengthening of Russian forces and the weakening of international aid to Ukraine. Fortunately, mass production of Ukrainian FPV drones has prevented the collapse of the army, but the entire Alaska adventure sowed doubt about the loyalties of the orange president. 

Speaking of loyalty, Trump probably broke the record for breaking alliances and loyalties. Neither Caesar in Gaul, nor Italy in the world wars has had a leader betray so many of his allies in such a short time.

First was Ukraine, then threats against Greenland, which by extension became threats to the integrity of the European Union and a verbal attack on all of Europe. As if that were not enough, Trump decided to criticize the Europeans and their involvement in Afghanistan, calling it insufficient, even though countries like Denmark lost percentages of men compared to the U.S. 

Next, Trump calls on his European allies to participate in the war in Iran, a war of which they were not informed in advance and from which they were affected, with no possibility of reaction. The allies in the Middle East had similar consequences, including the fall of several Iranian missiles, in whose interception the U.S. did not cooperate.

But it’s not just Europe and the Middle East. 

Strong allies and history have also received accusations and tantrums from Trump, such as Japan, South Korea and Australia. Basically, the big boy in the White House is whining and blaming everyone for his failure – literally. When everyone expected regime change to be the only positive consequence of this war, Trump decided to negotiate peace with Iran and turn his back on Middle Eastern monarchies.

And as if that were not enough, it is now the U.S. fleet that blocks the strait, the same strait they had been fighting a month-long war to open, which was previously open before the start of the war. 

In a few weeks, Iran has acquired unprecedented geopolitical weight, the sympathy of several million people around the world – despite all the atrocities they have committed – and the power to claim certain points in negotiations that were not even considered 15 days ago, like the closing of U.S. bases in Middle East and the levying of a toll in the Strait of Ormuz.

The U.S. is now more isolated than ever in its recent history, a situation that was paradoxically what Trump sought to create in China and Iran at the beginning of his term. The incompetence of this administration in basically any matter, from public relations to international politics, far exceeds that of any recent administration. 

But remember, it was much more important to put the image of an autopen writing former president Joe Biden’s signature to show off to visitors than to give him a portrait like the other presidents. 

Finally, Venezuela remains a case in limbo. On the one hand, the operation by which Maduro was captured went well, but there has been no regime change. And, many political prisoners remain in the regime’s hands, despite some changes.

Then there are Trump’s jokes about seizing power in Venezuela, which would violate several legal documents and promises made to different members of the international community, including Venezuelans themselves, who have already voted for a leader democratically.

And in the middle are the hundreds of times that Trump has threatened countless people, states, civilizations and governments to end up with a TACO (Trump Always Chicken Out). And the dozens of times he has declared victory in Iran, to withdraw without fulfilling any strategic objectives. What, in English, is known as losing a war.

In the run-up to the midterm elections, Trump can’t bring out any success because he doesn’t have any. Even in his worst nightmares, there could be no worse scenario for facing an election, especially after losing a war and leaving his adversary stronger than he was before the war. Iran has not changed its regime (moreover, the supreme leader still bears the same surname), its nuclear program has not been destroyed and its arsenal will be rebuilt.

Everything remains the same, but worse, because now there are 3,000 dead and a whole political and military top-level group looking for revenge. The Persian Gulf countries lost millions of dollars to their inability to use cheap ammunition to destroy Iran’s small Shahed drones.

Not to mention the ridiculousness of the public propaganda campaign during the war. The videos mixing bombings with the Wii game have not exactly been the most mature idea to show the crudeness of war. 

Many of the Republican Party voters will be wondering not whether they voted for a good or bad candidate, but whether they voted for a whimsical billionaire or a mental patient. And Trump will have only one choice left, the same as when he failed to win the Nobel Prize: To cry and cry.