Trump won the debate, page-41

It's definitely an empire in decline; defending the frontiers usually exhausts an empire. Bin Laden poked the wasps nest, they came pouring out into Iraq and Afghanistan and squandered trillions. A brilliant strategy really. It's really dramatically hastened the decline. We'll get more debt ceiling drama's in the new year, no matter what happens.

Trump can't change things, he's just being horrifically honest about their problems.