The United States population accounts for around 4 percent of the total world population. Donald Trump’s “Executive Orders” and public statements are alienating a whole lot of the other 96 percent of the world against the United States.
Mexico and Canada are the United States’ closest neighbors and reportedly its largest trading partners. Trump has launched a trade war with Mexico. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, has replied diplomatically but directly that Mexico will respond in kind to any U.S. tariffs.
Trump has launched a trade war against Canada. He has made public statements about making Canada the 51st U.S. state. Mark Carney, the new prime minister of Canada, broke with tradition and did not make the United States his first official visit to a foreign country. Instead, he went to Western Europe to strengthen ties with Canada’s traditional North Atlantic allies. U.S. hockey teams have been booed in Canada since Trump announced his tariff war.
Can you blame Carney for avoiding the Trump White House? After Trump’s February 28 slapsticks meeting at the White House with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, what world leader with any sense at all would accept an invitation from the White House, not knowing what to expect from Trump, another episode of “The Apprentice?” That’s what the February 28 White House meeting looked like to the world.
Trump is building a brick-and-mortar wall between the United States and Mexico. His trade war is building a political wall between the United States and Canada. He is just as intent on building walls, material or political, up and down the east and west coasts of the United States. He is fencing the USA in.
Trump’s tariff wars are God-sent gifts to accelerate global economic strategies like China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and The African Continental Free Trade project. This is where the majority of the world’s people are. This is tomorrow.
The European Union vows to retaliate against Trump’s trade wars. Trump brags about the United States taking possessions of Greenland. European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen said recently that Western European must rely on itself for its defenses. The German parliament recently voted to increase its national defense spending.
We must not forget that a primary reason, if not the primary reason, why Washington had been willing to largely foot the bill for NATO is to prevent post-1945 Germany from rearming to its maximum potential.
The two 20th-century European Civil Wars, often erroneously called World War I and World War II, with over 100 million war-related causalities, were between Western European countries for the title of the “World Heavyweight Champion” of White Power, of White Supremacy. Hitler said that up front. Britain, France, the United States and company lied and said that they were fighting for “Freedom” and “Democracy.”
Where and when in Africa, Asia, or Central and South America has the United States, France, Britain, and company supported “Freedom” and “Democracy” since 1945, the end of so-called World War Two? Where and when have they supported the inhuman exploitation and oppression of the masses of people across the world?
Who are Trump’s allies? Russia’s Vladimir Putin? Putin has not resigned from BRICS, or denounced BRICS, the expanding group of countries around the world that seek to replace the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency of international commerce.
Russia is a founding member, and its name is one of the letters in the BRICS acronym for Brazil Russia, India, China, and South Africa. Trump’s bullying accelerates the BRICS movement.
Also extremely important; American citizens, who have been planning to travel abroad and bask in the post-1945 influence that the United States had long enjoyed in many parts of the world, must now stay home in the United States, because of the outrage Trump is generating around the world. Their long-time dreams of shopping in London, dining in Paris, and sightseeing in Berlin are on hold!
Trump doesn’t care about what anyone in the whole world thinks of him. Pro or con, he relishes in it.
And what countries can Trump visit without stirring up the wrath of the people in the streets? Trump is persona non grata around the world. Around the world, Trump personifies the lyrics in Duke Ellington’s monumental Black Brown and Beige Suite: Trump is “(just) like a man who ain’t got a friend, who ain’t never been nowhere where he is welcome back again.”
It looks like in less than three months Trump has made a whole lot of progress alienating a whole lot of the world’s 96 percent population against the United States with around some 4 percent of the world’s people. Does it look like that to you?