On the campaign trail, the Fascist/Felon Guy conned numerous voters into believing his bumper sticker slogan, ‘America First’ foreign policy that focused on no new wars and how the US would no longer be the world’s policeman. Now that the adjudicated sexual assaulter, fraudster, and incompetent buffoon will become our next president, his tone and rhetoric have changed.
TFG has embraced a new imperialist agenda, MAGAfest Destiny! threatening to seize the Panama Canal and Greenland — perhaps by military force — and saying he will use economic coercion to pressure Canada to become the nation’s 51st state. He has NOT ruled out using military force to achieve his goals. He also want to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. But, what about the price of eggs???
“Canada and the United States, that would really be something. You get rid of that artificially drawn line, and you take a look at what that looks like and it would also be much better for national security,” Trump said of the world’s longest international border and the U.S.'s second-largest trade partner.
The Fascist/Felon guy’s language, reflects a 19th century world view that defined European colonial powers, comes as international allies were already grappling with the implications of his return to the world stage.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded with sarcasm Wednesday to another Trump proposal: to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America.” Standing before an old map, she quipped that North America should be renamed “América Mexicana,” or “Mexican America,” because a founding document dating from 1814 that preceded Mexico’s constitution referred to it that way.
“That sounds nice, no?” she said.
