One common mistake, perhaps made on purpose, to demonize a rival is to claim that their leaders and their government never cared about the country but only want to enrich themselves and to steel their grip on power at the expense of the people. This is what the US has always said about China. But generally, I don't believe it, especially not as it pertains to highy competitive nations like China, USA, Russia. So I would not make this same claim about Trump; I believe he is a patriotic American who thought that he could strongarm the world and make America so huge and dominant that it wouldn't be any crime at all to take an extra slice for himself. And how he exited was a result of mistakes upon mistakes piling onto each other until it was all a mess and his inner child came out in a disoriented tantrum.