Well, for the past near-decade, the USA has had Obama as their figurehead facing the world. And think what you will about him - I still very much like him, though I do feel he's been extremely hamstrung by the cold hard realities of holding the office, has perhaps not fought as strongly against all those frustrating politickal shackles as he ideally should've, and caved in way too tamely/jadedly to much of the uglier stuff expected of him by the puppet masters in the shadows - he has indisputably been a godsend in that aspect; the smoothest, most charismatic, composed, diplomatic and media-savvy world leader in living memory. A PR wet dream, and no exaggeration; his immense social skills and other intangible gifts have rendered him almost ridicule-proof, with nothing genuinely negative ever sticking, unless you're an imbecilically-partisan, socialism-phobic paranoid anti-'libtard'. Great orator, great public personality, cool as fuck, and ultimately well-liked as an individual even by the people overseas who generally hate America. A decent legacy in its own right that, I suppose... world history will treat him very kindly indeed, you'd suspect.
Now they have this cunt.
And pretty much the entire rest of the world sees that he is a cunt. The image of the USA is about to be tarnished like never before (and that's saying something!!), especially coming directly after such a beautiful, soothing plaster on the festering wound as Obama.