Mr Trump’s presidency, turning into a self-centred autocracy, should cause the U.S. society to urgently and carefully consider how and why could it have happened? To confront the consequences of Mr Trump’s continual electioneering, his PR stunts aimed solely for own political gain, thereby threatening destruction of U.S. democracy. The consequences which impair U.S. prosperity at home and diminish U.S. leadership within the inter-dependent, globalised world.The origins of this threatening misfortune in this work are found in the outdated ideology of extreme free market and entrepreneurship, with minimalist role of the state. Ideology which prevents the U.S. society and its political leaders to effectively deal with medium to long-term issues, the better to secure the American dream promises and American exceptionalism prestige the world round. Issues which, for example, make the origins of populist grievances of the specific ‘fringe’ voter group, which election strategists and polling technicians skilfully miss-used and manipulated for Mr Trump’s political gain. Or, issues which could secure U.S. competitive edge, in contests with geo-strategic contenders for the future leadership. The work suggests it is still possible to turn the U.S. dismal performance around with system adaptations of the U.S. model of capitalist democracy. Such that would reinvigorate the welfare state and bring about a better mix of greater, pro-active state support and true entrepreneurs’ initiatives. As for Mr Trump, given his empty promises and weird propositions, to earn praise and love of his ‘deep’ voter base and U.S. people at large, he’ll have to turn into a Reformer-in-Chief and support a programme of wide-reaching reforms, perhaps along the lines outlined in the work.China is currently at the centre of controversies regarding the U.S. prospects and options for the future. This work suggests that China cannot be expected to simply adopt and graft Western model of economic and social organisation, all with its many failures. Nor can China be denied pursuing what it has been best at: planning and the state support of its long-term development. Efforts at the former, by Mr Trump, are futile, if not counter-productive. Disregard of successes and lessons at the latter can only be to U.S. loss over the longer time horizon.