> And he was a sacrificial offering to the blue wave that I guess China new was going to happen but took everyone else even the US by surprise?

A backlash against the "Trump flavor of republican politics" has been brewing for a long time and Trump clearly cares fuck all about it, he even threw oil on the fire by offering a bride to everyone voting republican to keep him and his party at the steering wheel (how crazy is that, for a US president to try bribing the country in order to keep his autocratic style of politics alive and kicking for a while longer, dragging the country even further down with him in the process).

Despite his love-hate relationship with the press, Trump knew that sentiments against him have been building up for a long time now. He's clearly incapable of serious (inter)national politics without making many enemies, left and right.

Trump knew that a crazy nuclear option like this silly bribe would be needed to stem the bleeding from the backlash, even if it was a hail mary that it was going to work (and thankfully it didn't).

Anyone who didn't see this coming was being quite naive.