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The World Will Never Forget (or forgive) What the Trump Regime has Done

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Last night, while most people in Washington DC were asleep, Trump shared a post that had an AI-altered map with a US flag covering Canada, Venezuela and Greenland, depicting these nations as US territories.

In the photo, Trump can be seen sitting in a meeting with European leaders, including UK’s Keir Starmer, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, EU chief Ursula von der Leyen, French President Emmanuel Macron, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, with the US map in the background. Just a few minutes later, he posted another AI generated meme showing him planting a US flag on Greenland.

While what is left of his MAGA cult snickers at Trump’s Hitlerian fever dreams, the rest of the world isn’t laughing. They understand that Trump is incapable of joking. He is only capable of mockery, ridicule and threats. But as his mental and physical health wane, he becomes more and more unhinged.

Only days ago, he sent a bizarre message to Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, which sounded more like it came from a grade school bully than a president. In it, he expressed frustration with Norway for not being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, claiming that he no longer feels obligated to prioritize peace after not receiving it.

All of this happened after far-right, Venezuelan sycophant, Maria Corina Machado, gifted her Nobel prize to Trump in what amounted to one of the biggest suck-ups in the award’s history.

This week, as Danish and other European troops landed in Greenland, he announced plans to impose tariffs on Denmark and other nations if they continue to resist his acquisition efforts of the world’s biggest island (2,166,086 square kilometers).

Trump’s use of tariffs as a punishment will cause more pain for working class Americans than they will the nations he is targeting. American industry simply isn’t capable of producing all of the goods it is getting from trading partners. They will pay a hefty price thanks to Trump’s belligerence, as most of the world rapidly moves beyond US hegemony, signing trade deals and strategies well outside its orbit.

Of course, the Trump regime has no interest in what the people of Greenland want. Thousands flooded the streets of Nuuk, the capital, in the freezing cold of an arctic winter to reject Trump’s aggressive, imperialist ambitions. The whole country has only about 55,745 citizens, so this was a major event in its history.

And why would Greenlandic people want to be a part of the US when they have universal healthcare, free education and other social welfare policies? The US has none of those things. Why would any nation want to be a part of an empire in steep decline, one which is unleashing a reign of terror on its own people?

No matter what happens now, the world order has been forever altered. Alliances and trust between nations takes decades, sometimes centuries to build. But they can be decimated in just months or a few years. And this is where Trump has succeeded.

Even if he is voted out (a prospect that becomes more and more unlikely) or removed from power, the damage is done. This is because Trump isn’t the problem. He is the symptom. It took millions of Americans to put him into power and a cadre of fascists to prop him up. And even if Americans eventually move on, the rest of the world will never forget.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

The Trump Regime is Ushering in the New World Order

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Thanks to the rapid and belligerent posturing of the Trump regime in the US, we are witnessing a total rearrangement of power in the world. Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing this week isn’t just a ‘run of the mill’ diplomatic visit. It was Canada signaling to the US that the old alliances are finished.

Even if Trump doesn’t invade Greenland, the trust is forever broken between the US and the rest of the Western countries. Some leaders, like Keir Starmer, will probably not admit this. But the people of these nations know. They have quietly changed their plans for ever visiting a police state that routinely brutalizes foreigners and citizens alike. And a new leader of the US won’t alter this.

As Trump begins to battle his own people through ICE’s sustained and brutal reign of terror, he has threatened dozens of countries with military strikes and invasions, accelerating the factors that have led most empires to their downfall: domestic strife, foreign forays, severed allyships and an economy which is no longer providing for the basic needs of its citizenry. This is a recipe for collapse.

The American Empire has been hobbling toward its demise for decades. The steady hollowing out of its institutions by an oligarchy drunk on cupidity, the rampant corruption of its politicians from both sides of the aisle, the rise of white, Christian nationalist fascism, the gutting of education for all but the rich, a people fed a diet of hyper-processed food while enjoying no universal healthcare to counter its dire affects, a culture riven by pettiness, distracted by consumerism and mesmerized by the ultra-wealthy, economic cruelty so absurd it boggles the mind, endless wars for capital and the channeling of billions of dollars to fund a genocide. It was destined to arrive at the place it is now.

And in its chaos and decay, China rises.

There is a hope that ordinary Americans will rise up. Many are. But no matter what happens now, the Trump regime has already set in motion a cascade of change that will make our world look drastically different for decades to come.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

The End of Pax Americana

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Trump: “Colombia’s very sick too, run by a sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States. And he’s not going to be doing it very long. Let me tell you…He’s got cocaine mills and cocaine factories.”

Reporter: “So there will be an operation by the U.S. in Colombia?”

Trump: “It sounds good to me.”

The Trump regime is not finished. Not by a long shot. Its imperialistic rampage is targeting Columbia, Cuba, Mexico and Greenland. And if you think he will stop there, you haven’t been paying attention to his Hitlerian rants and the support he has received from his sniveling sycophants and even Democrat dolts like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and John Fetterman. Canada, I am looking at you.

Of course, what Trump is doing isn’t very different than any other project of the American Empire. Republican or Democratic, both arms of the empire do their part at the behest of its ruling class and their capital investments.

But Trump has ripped the veil off of the “Pax Americana” brand and showed it for what it really is. He has legitimized its gangsterism. And he is ramping it up to grab whatever is left for him and his wealthy friends on a planet that is on the brink of ecological devastation and climate chaos.

The American corporate media doesn’t know what to do with any of this, other than wring their hands about “legality” or worry about how it sounds rather than what it is. They are more concerned with preserving the old narrative of a benevolent and ethical, if not flawed, America, even though it is a complete lie.

And political leaders in Europe have demonstrated their complete subservience to American hegemony by couching their language in cautious “observatory” terminology. Except for Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who warned Trump to stop threatening the takeover of Greenland, which is part of the Kingdom of Denmark.

The latter is significant for several reasons, since Denmark is a member of NATO. Any attack on Greenland would be an attack on it, on NATO, and on Europe itself.

Trump’s actions are in keeping with American imperialistic aggression. The difference now is that under Trump its scope has expanded beyond the Global South to include white, Western nations as well. It is a clear signal that the old order of relations and allies is over.

But the Trump regime isn’t saving American Empire. On the contrary, he is stealing as much of the resources he can on behalf of its ruling class who know all too well that the party is almost over.

Even if Fox News flunkies believe that climate change is a hoax, they do not. Why else would they spend billions of dollars to suppress the science and silence the scientists? They know. They just care more about their wealth than they do about a livable biosphere. Because in some daft way, they think their wealth will insulate them.

And if the genocide in Gaza has taught us anything, it is that this class is thoroughly capable, without reservation, to annihilate anyone who might hamper their investments. Israel is, after all, one of the most important colonial assets of the American Empire. It has invested billions into what amounts to the biggest US military base in the world. They have shown us what they are more than willing to do or to justify. Only the willfully blind and toxically naive would not see that now.

We are entering a new phase of the resource wars. The old imperial houses and gangster capitalists are preparing to scrape up the last bits of fortune at our expense, even if that means burning it all to ash. Trump is merely accelerating that inferno.

Kenn Maurice Orfanos, January 2026

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

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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

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           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/