The first time around his stupidity made him accidentally staff the Whitehouse with people who have integrity like Mattis and Kelly. Which helped limit the damage he could do. Which helped him maintain his electability.
This time around he knows better than to hire anyone who has a shred of decency if he wants to be unconstrained. So this term is already shaping up to be much more damaging than the last.
I hope that after he's done wrecking everything and the true consequences of his ways are plainly visible that his ideas and attitude will become taboo, but I'm not holding my breath. So far his base has been impervious to reality.
one economic crash later
"Oh, maybe that's why the establishment is anti tariff"
If there were no or few rare earths and the deal only asked for 50% of this small/non-existant resource then Ukraine would have signed it.
They didn't sign it in part because it asked for basically half the countries mineral resources, gas, oil, coal etc.
Which makes more sense if, to your point, the deal was to make an unreasonable offer that couldn't be accepted, and use that to make the current Ukraine government look bad.