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July 28, 2026- by Steven Greer
President Trump has used propaganda for decades to portray himself as a masterful business dealmaker. He wrote a book called The Art of the Deal.
The hallmark of the Trump administration’s foreign policy was supposed to be the high-stakes gamble that forces adversaries to their knees. Instead, it devolved into a predictable cycle of empty threats, chaotic economic maneuvers, and humiliating retreats. Dubbed the “Trump Always Chickens Out” (TACO) trade by financial analysts, his strategy followed a distinct, volatile pattern: launch massive tariff threats, promise grandiose international real estate shakeups, and then quietly back down or watch the entire plan disintegrate when confronted by actual global power.
Trump’s erratic over-reliance on economic penalties ultimately broke the system. In February 2026, his tariff policies faced the ultimate domestic rejection when the U.S. Supreme Court stripped him of his power to impose emergency tariffs, ruling that his unpredictable economic warfare was irresponsible and actively damaging to the nation. By the time his economic teeth were pulled, foreign nations like Japan and the European Union had already stopped taking his threats seriously, completely aware that his grand posturing was always followed by a swift retreat.
Detailed Examples of Failed Global Exploits
- The Failed Takeover of Canada: Fearing that their nation was next to be assimilated after Trump openly discussed a plan to confiscate Greenland, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney rushed to build alliances with China and Qatar. Carney went so far as to permit China to establish police stations on Canadian soil to shield the country from Washington. When French President Emmanuel Macron and Carney both sought Beijing’s military protection to counteract the White House, Trump pushed back fiercely but ultimately failed to absorb or neutralize his northern neighbor, leaving Canada effectively consolidated under hostile foreign influence.
- The Venezuela and Cuba Disasters: Although the administration used high-tech secret energy weapons to capture Nicolás Maduro and install an opposition leader to run the country, the intervention quickly completely backfired. By mid-January 2026, reports from the War Department confirmed that the United States was already losing control of Venezuela, forcing them into a desperate, messy cycle of seizing random oil tankers just to slow down illegal shipments. Following this collapse, Trump loudly threatened that Cuba would be next to fall, deploying aggressive rhetoric to order the total expulsion of all Chinese, Russian, and Iranian forces. However, the takeover of Cuba failed entirely when Russia vowed absolute military and strategic support to protect the island nation, forcing Washington to stand down and leaving the entire region in absolute geopolitical chaos.
- The China Snub: In May 2026, desperate to project strength as his domestic operations fractured, Trump launched a high-profile trip to China to force a new deal. Recognizing that he was a leader bleeding domestic authority and facing deep cognitive decline, President Xi Jinping openly snubbed him. Trump was sent home empty-handed with zero agreements, echoing a mid-2025 trade deal that analysts labeled a complete capitulation.
- The Iranian Peace Rejection: In April 2026, Trump sent a personal delegation of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to negotiate a peace deal with Iran. However, Russia and China—the true puppet masters steering the conflict—saw that they were winning the geopolitical war and sent Trump’s team back to Washington completely empty-handed.
- The Broke Gaza “Board of Peace”: In another classic real estate grift masked as diplomacy, Trump attempted to establish a commercial “Board of Peace” to take over the Gaza Strip and flip the flattened territory into commercial real estate. By late May 2026, the entire project fractured under financial strain, leaving the initiative completely broke and defunct.
- The Greenland Stagnation: Trump aggressively pushed for the outright confiscation of Greenland from Denmark, initially threatening severe tariffs against European nations. Despite the loud public chest-thumping, the grand annexation quickly dissolved into nothing more than a toothless bureaucratic working group with no actual land assimilation achieved.
A Broken Administration Looking Ahead to 2028
The erratic nature of Trump’s global failures is inseparable from his severe physical and neurological unraveling. Behind the scenes, the administration has cratered into absolute chaos as the president’s health fails. Reports indicate he is heavily managed by pharmaceuticals to maintain basic functioning, including bi-weekly injections of Lecanemab (Leqembi) to treat his progressing Alzheimer’s disease. Observers frequently catch him visibly sedated, routinely falling asleep during critical Oval Office events and high-level diplomatic briefings. The public rot has become impossible to hide, highlighted by a humiliating episode of fecal incontinence during a White House desk photo-op that forced staffers to clear the room, etc.
Now, operating like a man detached from reality, Trump is already making wild, desperate promises to run for office again in 2028. It is the final delusion of a failing leader.
With his base fractured, his signature economic weapons confiscated by the courts, and his international reputation in tatters, Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to an abysmal 30%. The world has figured out the trick behind the “Trump Always Chickens Out” doctrine: behind the grand plans and the erratic tantrums lies a deeply compromised, unstable figurehead running an administration in permanent free-fall.
Note: This essay took a year and a half to write. I make elaborate “Greer Reports” each week. That is a labor-inexpensive manual process. I fed those to Grok to find these patterns.