The internal dynamics and international politics of Donald Trump, By Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf

By his anti-immigration coverage, Trump is telling the UDCs to: construct their states; modernise their societies; democratise their politics; humanise the financial area; and develop their capacities to actually self-discipline their ruling and governing courses. For certain, these duties won’t be simple, as US and Western Europe will frantically oppose them. However refusing to confront these issues is much more harmful and lethal. 

Throughout the 2024 United States (US) presidential campaigns, a few of my mates supported the Democratic Social gathering presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. They argued that she is a lady and immigrant from a working class background. They additional identified that Black blood flows in her veins, she isn’t a racist and would, subsequently, not pursue racist insurance policies and programmes.

They argued that Donald Trump, however, is “incompetent”, “ignorant”, “conceited”, “egotistic”, “narcissistic”, “idiotic”, “rash”, “unpredictable” “unconventional”, “undiplomatic”, “unapologetic”, “unrepentant”, “lunatic-like”, “harmful” and “hyperactive right-wing racist”, who talks earlier than he thinks, and acts earlier than he calculates.  

My response was that the issues the US poses to itself and the world goes past a person – whether or not Black or White, man or girl. The issues are systemic and structural, and they’re inherently racist, capitalistic, imperialistic and militaristic. Thus, whether or not Harris or Trump wins, nothing critical would change. Apart from, Trump and Harris are essentially the identical. At greatest, they’re 5 and 6. Their distinction is mainly in fashion. 

I additionally reminded them that the US’ issues are deeply rooted in its historical past. Karl Marx captured a few of them when he wrote: “The invention of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment within the mines of the aboriginal inhabitants, the start of the conquest and looting of East Indies, the turning of Africa right into a warren for the industrial looking of black-skins, signalised the rosy daybreak of the period of capitalist manufacturing.” True, Marx was speaking in regards to the primitive accumulation of capital within the West, however no the place was this accumulation sucked with racism, genocide, slavery, blood, and violence like within the US.

Subsequently, no US president – whether or not White or Black, man or girl, immigrant or non-immigrant, saint or satan, is able to smash, or is even able to smashing, these “fruits” of genocide, looting, plundering, slavery, and colonialism for democracy, social justice and peace. Solely US residents, of their crowds and with their blood, can tackle these historic injustices.

I equally reminded them of the primary girl Prime Minister of the UK (UK), Margret Thatcher. This spouse and mom, fanatically spearheaded the destruction of the UK welfare state. Below her watch, the state safety of the poor was lowered from 9.3 per cent in 1968 to 4.7 per cent in 1979, and 1.2 per cent in 1986. Below her administration, subsidies for the working and poor folks drastically fell from £9 billion in 1969 to £5 billion in 1979, then £0.3 billion in 1990. 

Cowboys and cowgirls are, by nature, true to themselves. By electing Trump, they’ve proven their true DNA, true faces, and coronary heart of hearts. By voting Trump, they’ve advised the “remainder of us” that they like a recognized satan over and above devils of the kinds of Clinton, Obama, and Harris, who’re doubled-face, and eat concurrently with each side of the mouth. So Trump isn’t as hypocritical and lethal as Clinton and Obama.

Thatcher additionally crudely pursued an atavistic, anachronistic, extraordinarily hypocritical, and war-mongering overseas coverage. She subverted the nationwide liberation struggles in Southern Africa by befriending apartheid Premier PW Botha. She morally, politically, diplomatically and militarily supported the White minority rule and apartheid regimes in Southern Africa. Thatcher equally defended apartheid South African navy invasions and destabilisation of the Frontline States.

She categorised the African Nationwide Congress (ANC) and its members like Nelson Mandela as “terrorists”. She additional befriended the Chilean assassin and dictator, Common Augusto Pinochet, who in a navy coup-d’état engineered and financed by the US Central Intelligence Company (CIA) bombed the Chilean State Home, with the President, Salvador Allende inside. So the place was the womanism and humanism in Thatcher? 

Accordingly, I advised them, I desire a satan who owns as much as being a satan, speaks and acts as one, over and above a satan who pretends to be an angel, talks and acts like an angel, however strikes like Lucifer himself! Subsequently, I most well-liked Trump to Harris.

Trump, no doubt, is harmful. However so are politicians like Harris, Clinton, and, worst of them, Obama. Whereas Trump is daring and sincere sufficient to inform the world the racist, anti-immigrant, and anti-democracy insurance policies and actions he intends to pursue, characters like Harris, Clinton and Obama, will justify their racist insurance policies and satanic actions with the sugar-coated phrases of “stakeholders’ consultations”, “inclusiveness”, “participation”, “poverty alleviation”, “safety”, “peace-building”, “sustainability”, “good governance”, “democracy”, and “improvement”. They, as well as, will garnish and fantasise these phrases with slogans like “Hope”, “Stand for Change”, “Organise for Change”, “Change Can’t Occur With out You” and “Sure, We will”.

Any shock, subsequently, that Obama, as president, praised Islam however organised, skilled, financed and armed ‘spiritual’ fanatics, lunatics and terrorists like Al-Qa’ida, ISIS, and Boko Haram, and so forth, to destabilise underdeveloped international locations (UDCs) like Nigeria, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, amongst others.      

Cowboys and cowgirls are, by nature, true to themselves. By electing Trump, they’ve proven their true DNA, true faces, and coronary heart of hearts. By voting Trump, they’ve advised the “remainder of us” that they like a recognized satan over and above devils of the kinds of Clinton, Obama, and Harris, who’re doubled-face, and eat concurrently with each side of the mouth. So Trump isn’t as hypocritical and lethal as Clinton and Obama.

By searching for to barter with Russia to finish the battle in Ukraine, with out Zelensky and EU’s participation, Trump is telling Zelensky that no beggarly nation decides when and the right way to finish a battle. He’s additionally telling EU that simply as US was within the forefront in making and enormously funding the battle, so additionally has US the suitable to unilaterally finish the battle. Therefore, that battle is not only about politics and diplomacy however squarely about economics.

By scrapping america Support for Worldwide Improvement (USAID), and telling the world that he would expose extra US businesses like Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and CIA, Trump is simply being true to himself and exhibiting US for what it really is. By so doing, he’s, to make use of Lenin’s expression, opening the eyes of US residents and the world: “to the rottenness, lying and hypocrisy” of US democracy. 

By searching for to barter with Russia to finish the battle in Ukraine, with out Zelensky and EU’s participation, Trump is telling Zelensky that no beggarly nation decides when and the right way to finish a battle. He’s additionally telling EU that simply as US was within the forefront in making and enormously funding the battle, so additionally has US the suitable to unilaterally finish the battle. Therefore, that battle is not only about politics and diplomacy however squarely about economics. Apart from, the EU ought to know that whereas the monkey and the baboon are of the identical ancestral parentage, a monkey is a monkey, and a baboon is a baboon. 

Trump, by scrapping and exposing USAID for what it truly is, is telling us, Africans, to be self-reliant moderately than relying on cancerous stipends, distributed by USAID, DfID and different worldwide do-gooders. Trump is equally pointing to organisations and people, inside and out of doors Africa, which were feeding on African poverty, ailments, and underdevelopment. Forces which were, disorganising and destabilising Africa. Consequently, Trump is tacitly calling on the African state and society to: examine these forces; take self-sustaining actions in opposition to them; and take safety, democracy and improvement significantly. 

By his anti-immigration coverage, Trump is telling the UDCs to: construct their states; modernise their societies; democratise their politics; humanise the financial area; and develop their capacities to actually self-discipline their ruling and governing courses. For certain, these duties won’t be simple, as US and Western Europe will frantically oppose them. However refusing to confront these issues is much more harmful and lethal. 

Politics is not only about intercourse (man or girl), color (Black or White), or faith (African Conventional Faith, Islam, Christianity, and so forth.). It is mainly about pursuits – about “who stands to realize” from this or that coverage, programme or mission. If Trump will nakedly present US for what it truly is, then, alhamdulillah for “the remainder of us”.  

Ahmed Aminu-Ramatu Yusuf labored as deputy director, Cupboard Affairs Workplace, The Presidency, and retired as Common Supervisor (Administration), Nigerian Meteorological Company, (NiMet). E-mail: aaramatuyusuf@yahoo.com