Donald Trump’s success in the race for the GOP nomination is making foreign leaders nervous, revealing yet another not-so-secret ingredient of Trump’s success: He seems to put America first.

D.C. lobbyists who work for foreign governments have told The Hill they are inundated with panicked calls from their clients concerning the U.S. election. “It’s fair to say that all anyone wants to talk about is the U.S. presidential election,” Richard Mintz, managing director of the lobbying firm The Harbour Group, said. “People are confused and perplexed.”

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While condescending liberals in the American media continue to mock Trump and his supporters, foreign leaders and businessmen clearly aren’t laughing. “I don’t want to say what I’d do [regarding foreign policy] because, again, we need unpredictability,” Trump told the New York Times.

If foreign leaders’ reactions to his rise are anything to go by, Trump is correct. Questions and concerns about Trump are “almost all-consuming,” Mintz said.

“There’s an added level of bafflement because this is not the United States that they’ve been living with for so long,” said Nathan Daschle, president and COO of the Daschle Group. “This is not the image the United States has been projecting.”

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Indeed, under Obama the United States has been projecting nothing but an image of weakness, and while Trump may project many things, weakness is certainly not one of them.

Furthermore, this foreign concern is likely to only increase Trump’s popularity and the resolve of his supporters. Americans tend to not like being told what to do by foreigners, and this level of apprehension from foreign leaders only strengthens Trump’s appeal.

“If you come out and blast Donald Trump — for the people who are going to vote for Donald Trump, that could make them like him more,” a lobbyist who represents foreign governments and companies told his clients, the Hill reported.

“Mr. Trump is tapping into what has become the core Republican base, and it’s not pretty,” said another lobbyist, speaking on anonymity.

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But what most Americans find ugly is a Democratic president who tangos in Argentina as Brussels burns at the hands of the very same “refugees” he wants to import to America. What most Americans find ugly is a president who stands silent as a Cuban dictator dares equate the actions of his brutal communist dictatorship to the inflated false grievances of American ethnic minorities.

Indeed, what most Americans undoubtedly find ugly is an entire DC lobbying industry built around serving the interests of foreign governments. These lobbyists earn vast sums of money for trying to ensure the U.S. government passes laws and institutes policies as favorable to their foreign clients as possible. There used to be a word for that: treason.

“The questions coming from the international community are not different than the things, categorically, we’re asking ourselves,” Daschle said. If any of those questions revolve around Trump’s surprising success, Daschle needs only to look in a mirror — and hold one up to his clients — for the answer.