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The United States of America will become Ununited. A group of states will break away and wall themselves off from the rest of the country, creating their own Trump worshipping society. They will create their own version of utopia and tell stories about how the rest of the world is going to die off because they will make everyone transgender and have no more children. The rest of the world will rejoice and join together in actually fixing climate change, eradicate poverty and spread the Eurovision worldwide.
In 100 more years the walled off states will emerge to repopulate what they expect to be an empty planet with their own eugenically created race of clones and finally realise that they were completely and utterly wrong.
That won't work, mainly because that walled-off Trumpland would deliberately 'roll coal' enough to offset the rest of the world's improvements. They'd eventually be forced to invade and put it down like a rabid dog.
The population drop due to all the diseases running rampant while they refuse vaccination, masks or any sort of social distancing kill off enough that their overall energy use is still quite low.
They'll be compensating for that with all the forced birth, though.
Especially when you add in the increased maternal deaths that would be unlikely to compensate for the high mortality rate. Population growth in recent decades has been huge despite a major drop in the average number of children born to each mother.