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Art of the Deal chapter 2 is about leverage. There is no concept of soft power, so we've abandoned it. This includes USAID. This will be viewed in hindsight as the single biggest mistake we made.
There are other single biggest mistakes like pushing rest of the world to get rid of US software and possibly towards open source.
'Mistake' might not be the right word in either situations. 'Tribute to humanity at large' might be better lol
I'd file that one under soft power abdication but there's validity to discussing individual stupid decisions under that umbrella