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The Trump Regime’s White Supremacist Plan to Reinvigorate American Empire

The Trump regime has just released its “2025 National Security Strategy of the United States of America.” And it not only targets Europe and Canada, it lays out its specific ideology of white supremacy that has domestic and foreign implications in regard to budgets, policing, borders, trade and surveillance. This time, they are responding to the real rise of China and BRICS on the global economic and political stage and to the declining and crumbling American Empire.

The document is a hard turn back to the Monroe Doctrine, which demarcates all of the North and South American hemisphere as being under the hegemonic control of the American Empire. Defining it as “supply chains,” all of its resources belong solely to them. It is American imperialism redux unapologetically on steroids.

The language of this document is undeniably white supremacist in that it characterizes the supposed decline of Europe as a problem of cultural dissolution. In other words, immigrants from the Global South are diluting the Aryan blood and soil of the West, with the racist dog whistle “civilizational erasure” as a recurring theme.

This threat is a last ditch effort to essentially strongarm the West into continuing to prop up their hegemonic control through outright threats of devastation and violence. Thanks to Trump’s idiotic and destructive tariffs, other nations are beginning to build economic ties with China. And the regime cannot cope with it.

The Trump regime is codifying their white supremacist ideology into actionable state policy. Immigrants, racialized communities, queer people, women, Indigenous, all of them are being cast as “threats to civilization.” This is a rhetoric that allows for atrocity. It is the language of both erasure and annihilation. And anyone on the margins of American Empire should find it absolutely bone chilling.

This is the playbook that the regime is going to follow going forward (see below).

Take note of the one that mentions the supposed “threats against our (US) supply chains that risk US access to critical resources, including minerals and rare earth elements.” This one is aimed directly at Canada, because the American Empire views everyone else as their “supply chains.” Also, propaganda and “cultural subversion” is referring to the regimes plans to curtail and censor free expression and dissent both within and beyond its borders.

Kenn Orfanos, December 2025

The Scream of Canadian Colonialism

           The title of Kent Monkman’s painting, “The Scream,” is appropriate to the experiences of First Nations people across Canada who continue to suffer from ethnic cleansing, the erasure of cultural identity, and ecological and economic disenfranchisement. The painting depicts the forced removal and displacement of indigenous children from their homes by the Church with the assistance of the federal government. For decades First Nations children were abducted from their homes and placed in residential schools where they were compelled to reject their culture and language and suffered horrific physical, sexual and emotional abuse. Monkman, who is of Irish and Cree ancestry, was able to capture this horror in living colour on canvas. He said of this and related works:
          “Canada’s 150 years old—what does that mean for the First People? When I thought about it, I thought it includes the worst period, because it goes all the way back to the signing of the treaties, the beginning of the reserve system, this legacy of incarceration, residential schools, sickness, the removal of children in the ’60s, missing and murdered women.”

            The tragic history of colonialism in Canada is, arguably, a vastly under studied and addressed atrocity. But its legacy endures to this day even under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has been slow to address abysmal access to clean drinking water, crushing poverty, suicide, substance abuse and violence against Aboriginal girls and women. His government has also greenlighted ecologically destructive pipeline projects over indigenous lands. Kent Monkman’s paintings implore us to shine a light of truth on this veiled history, understanding that if we do not do this the crime of colonialism will only continue.

Kenn Orphan  2017

For more information on Kent Monkman’s paintings please visit his web page:  http://www.kentmonkman.com/