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The other answers here are all interesting & valid - if a little apocalyptic for my tastes - but what fascinates me is the world-view behind the question. It explains a lot - especially Trump’s continued popularity.Many Americans seem to believe that the world exists for their pleasure & profit. They don’t actually want to go there - why would you visit ‘shithole countries’ when the USA is so great? - but the crucial thing is that the rest of the World remains subservient to the USA. If any country or bloc dares to step outta line & starts expressing views of their own, then God help them. They had it coming to them, uppity bunch of (insert racist slur here).Successive US governments have interfered, often violently, in other countries’ politics. The CIA’s role in overthrowing many South & Central American democracies & ongoing US support for brutal dictatorships is well-known. Kissinger dropped bombs, anti-personnel devices & Agent Orange on innocent civilians in (neutral) Cambodia & Laos, to deter Vietnamese forces who were embarrassingly beating the US in an illegal war to support a corrupt regime. The US (& the UK) knew Saddam Hussein had no WMDs, but Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld coveted Iraqi oil. (“How dare they have our oil under their territory?”) The Iraq war cost around 4,500 American lives, around 150 Brits and nearly half a million Iraqi civilians, but hey, Halliburton (Cheney’s company) made $39bn out of ‘reconstruction’.The US routinely employed torture & rendition in Iraq & Afghanistan. Local warlords brought them ‘terrorists’ who were transported, tortured & imprisoned for years without trial. (Guantanamo is still open for business). Many later turned out to be shepherds & farmers, kidnapped & sold to the US for bounty money. But it’s US policy that no American will ever stand trial at The Hague. Probably just as well; to quote Noam Chomsky, “if the Nuremberg rules had been applied, every post-War American president would have been hanged.”Ironically, Trump’s slogan was ‘make America great again’. Barack Obama helped restore the USA’s tattered reputation abroad, & did his best to make America great again. He not only agreed that the USA should (at last) face up to its responsibilities on climate change but, by skilful diplomacy, also persuaded the Chinese to do the same. He tried to heal the running sore that is the US relationship with the Arab world by reining-in Israel, which has committed countless human rights abuses & atrocities, confident of US support. Obama’s diplomacy worked spectacularly well with Iran, whose nuclear-enrichment had advanced at an alarming rate. The Iranian moderates he supported made real social progress in their country after decades of repressive hard-liners, & the Iranians verifiably kept to their side of the bargain. Obama spoke softly, & everyone knew he carried the biggest stick around. He refused to deal with N Korea, as he knew Kim would renege on any deal & was in effect Xi’s puppet.Then along comes Trump. ‘Quiet’, ‘subtle’ & ‘diplomacy’ aren’t words in his vocabulary, so he goes blundering around, ‘making America grate again’. He tells the American public blatant lies to get them angry; Mexicans are flooding in & they’re all criminals (Except undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than American citizens); Muslims are threatening the country (But toddlers & pets shoot more Americans than Muslims do - not to mention the wackos who do mass-shootings); wind turbines cause cancer (But of course, coal & fracking are harmless); climate change is all Chinese propaganda (And the record number of tornadoes, forest fires, hurricanes & the opening of the NW Passage are all coincidence) ; the Obama/European treaty with Iran is ‘so bad’ (because they’re keeping to their side of it, which means Israel has forced the USA to break its side); the World is ripping off America & it’s not fair on the poor old USA (Which is still the richest nation on Earth, while a huge proportion of the World’s population survives on a dollar or two a day). And of course, all the respected media, at home and abroad, are in a conspiracy of ‘fake news’ & mustn’t be believed. The truth is what the Donald says it is, and anyone who points out that he makes provably untrue statements a dozen times a day is just ‘nasty’.Many Americans are not, by global standards, well-educated, especially about anything non-American. Visitors from the UK are soon struck by how little coverage there is of non-domestic news in US media. Consequently, relatively few Americans are in a position to challenge the narrative that, somehow, people around the World are ‘freeloading’ on the US, and are ungrateful for all the wonderful things the US does for them.The idea that the US could blackmail European countries to break up the EU, just so they’ll make their own (disadvantageous) deals with the US is as risible as it is outrageous. The EU is the largest single free-trade market in the World. The main barriers to entry for non-members are not tariffs but stringent consumer, worker, environmental and animal welfare safeguards that EU members have to meet, and other countries must honour if they want access. Business-led factions in the US hate the EU because meeting these standards would cost them money. Ask the citizens of Flint Michigan what they feel about US environmental protection standards. What about employee protections for rust-belt workers? Or food standards, with chlorine-washed chicken, hormone-fed beef and untested GM products hiding atrocious animal welfare?But Trump is now in the UK (3rd June), & we all love him (except the tens of thousands demonstrating at Heathrow & in London and the tens of millions who wish they had the time to join in the protests). With Brexit being forced-through by the greedy, non-taxpaying billionaires & the chancer populist politicians that Trump so admires, he’s circling like a vulture to pick over the bones of Britain’s post-Brexit weakness. Of course all of our EU-led protections will be swept away. Of course US companies will be able to exploit the NHS, creaming off yet more millions that should be spent on patient care. US pharmas will be able to force inappropriate drugs on the NHS & then sue if we try to refuse them.It’s going to be a bonanza for US big-business, & Trump will find a way to personally profit, as with everything else he’s been involved in. Ask his unpaid contractors & bankrupted investors in Atlantic City & his property developments. Ask the ripped-off students at his ‘university’ & the would-be beneficiaries of his ‘charitable trust’. Ask the banks who loaned him fortunes because he was a ‘billionaire’ & didn’t have the balls to check if this was true. Ask the IRS who would love it if he paid some taxes – or would release his tax returns so everyone can see that a) he’s never been a billionaire, only a massive debtor & swindler & b) as a true patriot, he’s avoided paying tax to his country for most of his life.So sorry, no; Trump’s insane bullying tactics wouldn’t work with Europe, any more than they do with China, which has stolen around $1.7Tr of intellectual property because greedy US companies moved their manufacturing there to make more money than they could by having US workers do those jobs. It’s actions like these – by its own very wealthy citizens to whom Trump gives great tax breaks – that cause the problems that Trump tries to blame on foreigners.Despite the USA regularly trying to enforce its spurious jurisdiction beyond its own shores, its power is waning. The World is no longer in thrall to the US; China owns a vast amount of US debt, & thanks to uncontrolled offshoring, the West has forgotten how to manufacture, so we’re up shit creek if we fall out with the Chinese – as Trump is already finding. Other countries haven’t ‘freeloaded’ off the USA, but the USA has freeloaded off the rest of the World for far too long, & it’s about time Americans woke up to the fact & stopped pretending that the World owes them a living.