Washington, DC - Donald Trump's worldview is hard to fix.

During the first 100 days of the second term, the U.S. president launched a global trade war against allies and enemies. He also issued a decree to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement of Paris Climate and the World Health Organization, among other international forums.

Trump continues to redouble his efforts on a series of unconventional foreign policy proposals: taking over the Panama Canal, annex Greenland, making Canada the 51st state in the United States and Gaza that "owned" Gaza.

Despite pledging to be a "peaceful" president, Trump said he intends to bring the Pentagon budget to a record $1 trillion.

He has distanced himself from the newly conservative foreign policy and has not positioned himself as a promoter of human rights or democracy abroad. His “America First” position and NATO’s skepticism are consistent with the principles of realism, but his impulsiveness and highly personalized diplomacy are different from traditional realism.

At the same time, he did not call for a complete retreat in global affairs in military or diplomatic retreat, distinguishing him from isolationists.

So, what prompted Trump's foreign policy?

Experts say this is primarily inspired by dissatisfaction with the current global system, which he believes is unfair because its rules and restrictions put the United States at a disadvantage. Instead, Trump seems to want Washington to use its enormous military and economic capabilities to set rules to advocate global dominance while reducing the U.S. contribution and commitment to others.

"Trump doctrine is to 'shatter and grab', grab what you want, and let your allies do the same," said Josh Ruebner, lecturer at the Justice and Peace Plan at Georgetown University.

"Just demolish"

Mathew Burrows, the program director for the Stimson Center’s Strategic Vision Center, said Trump hopes we are crucial and not have to pay the fees that come with it.

"He is withdrawing from the United States from the rest of the world, especially economically," Burrows, a senior at the State Department and the CIA, told Al Jazeera.

"But at the same time, he somehow thought that the United States … would be able to tell other countries to stop fighting and do everything the United States wants," he said. "Hegemony just doesn't work that way."

Trump seems to believe that threats and imposing tariffs (occasionally violent) are a way to hire U.S. leverage to make world leaders acquiesce his demands.

But critics say the U.S. president discounts the power of nationalism in other countries, prompting them to eventually fight back. This is the case in Canada.

After Trump imposed tariffs and called on Canada to become the 51st state, this led to a sudden shift from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

From Canada to China, foreign governments accuse Trump of “bullying” and extortion.

Some of Trump's Democratic rivals are eager to accuse him of giving up his global role in the United States, but at the same time, the U.S. president has been projecting American power to other countries.

Although not a completely isolated polite, his approach has changed significantly from his predecessor.

"We are an indispensable country. We are tall and we are farther away than other countries," the late Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously said in 1998.

As Albright envisioned, this power and wisdom enabled the United States to implement Pax Americana, the concept of a peaceful global order led by Washington.

Trump does think the United States is higher than other countries, but maybe not what Albright means.

"The United States does not need other countries," White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told reporters earlier this month.

However, her statement is to emphasize that other countries must negotiate with the United States to avoid Trump's tariffs.

In this case, Trump is seeking income and work, rather than being subject to the international system of liberal values ​​in a way that Washington defines.

But, Burrows said the main purpose of Trump’s foreign policy is to dismantle the existing global order.

"A big part of his worldview is actually his negative sentiment towards the current order, and others seem to be rising," Burrows said. "So a lot of things are just dismantling."

Global Order

After World War II, most of the systems that govern relations between different countries were built in place, while the United States led it.

The United Nations and its institutions, the provisions of international law, various environmental treaties, nuclear proliferation and trade, and formal alliances have managed global affairs for decades.

Critics in Washington pointed out that the United States violated and chose the system it sees as appropriate.

For example, the United States never joined the Roman regulations that established the International Criminal Court in 1998. Its Iraqi invasion without the UN Security Council authorized in 2003 was clearly a violation of the UN Charter. Despite its well-documented abuse of Palestinians by U.S. allies, it has been providing unconditional support to Israel.

"The United States has done a lot of work to support these ideas (the United Nations and others)" said Matthew Duss, executive vice president of the Center for International Policy.

"However, the United States has been finding ways to violate these norms and laws when it comes to violating them," he added, noting that former U.S. President Joe Biden's support for Israel's war on Gaza and President George W. Bush's policies after the 9/11 attacks, which included extraordinary persistence, torture, invasion, invasion, invasion, invasion, invasion, residence and prolonged occupation.

But for Trump and his administration, there are signs that the global order needs not only to be resolved. It needs to go.

"The post-war global order is not only outdated, it is now a weapon against us," Trump Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the senator at a confirmation hearing in January.

The politics of complaints

Trump recently told Time that the United States has been "deprived" by "almost every country in the world."

His remarks on foreign policy seem to have led to his statements about a commitment to care for “the forgotten men and women of America” who were abused by “elites” at home.

Although the modern world order has given American companies the capabilities and left the country with great wealth and military and diplomatic capabilities, Americans do have major issues to complain about.

Globalization outsources U.S. jobs to countries with lower labor force. The interventionist policies of the past, especially the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - were largely seen as strategic mistakes, producing a generation of veterans with physical harm.

Geoffrey Kabaservice, vice president of political research at Niskanen Center, a center-right think tank in Washington, D.C., noted that wages have been stagnant for decades.

“The truth is, the benefits of globalization are very mean, and some people make a lot of money and few people flow to the quality of the working class,” Cabacevis told Al Jazeera.

For those who see factories shut down and feel they live in the "left-side area", election Trump is a "retribution" to the system, Kabaservice said, adding that Trump's "America First" approach has put the United States in conflict with the rest of the world.

"The United States is returning to the world," Kaspersvic said. "Trump believes that the United States can be self-sufficient in everything, but the falsehood of this theory has proven to be true."

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, a think tank that promotes diplomacy, said Trump's foreign policy, including his allies' attitudes, comes from "politics of appeal."

"He does think that because of his role as a world policeman, he doesn't necessarily fall in love with the world policeman - taking on many world security burdens without proper compensation," Palsi told Al Jazeera.

The U.S. president has been calling on NATO allies to increase their defense spending, while suggesting that stationing in Washington in allies such as Germany and South Korea should be paid more.

Nostalgia

So how does Trump view the world?

"He was an aggressive unilateralist, and in many ways, he was just an old-fashioned imperialist," Duss said of Trump. "He wanted to expand American territory. He wanted to extract wealth from the rest of the world... It was a foreign policy approach from the early days."

He noted that Trump's foreign policy is to take positive and unilateral action to achieve what he sees American interests.

Kabaservice said Trump wants the United States to return to an era of manufacturing, rather than being too involved in world affairs.

"He likes the idea that in the 19th century model, the United States was a powerful force that gave other great powers its own influence," he said.

Kabaservice added that Trump wants the United States to have “its own influence” and “expand in a way that is optimistic forward strength.”

When Rubio made a speech earlier this year, the concept of the United States with its own "field of influence" seemed to be supported by Rubio.

Parsi said that despite Trump’s disgust with the regime’s change, he was seeking hegemony, so he emphasized the acquisition of Greenland and Panama Canals.

"You are not moving from dominant politics to restraints; you are moving from a politics of global dominance to a more limited form of dominance," Parsi told Al Jazeera.

“Only focus on your own hemisphere.”

When these nostalgic and grievance views see what the real world means, the United States may have experienced what will happen. Trump's unstable trade policy has shocked the U.S. stock market and triggered anti-parallel threats from Canada to the EU to China.

Ultimately, Trump delayed many of his tariffs, keeping the benchmark at a 10% tax and charging additional import fees for Chinese goods. When asked why he suspended the measures, the U.S. president acknowledged that it was due to how the tariffs were received. "People jump a little bit. They're getting more and more Yippy," he said.

Ultimately, Trump's unilateralism and unpredictability "breaks the world's trust in an important way" that will surpass his presidency, Kabasves told Al Jazeera.

"On a wide range of history, Trump will be seen as someone who has made horrible non-compulsory mistakes, leading to the end of the American century and the beginning of the Chinese century," he said.

In his inaugural speech earlier this year, the U.S. president said his legacy “will be a peacemaker and a uniter.”

"His actual legacy will be that he has demolished the global system created by the United States," said Burrows of the Stimson Center.