Trump Isn’t Working for America
In 2016, 2020, and 2024, I was one of tens of millions of Americans who voted for Donald Trump to put America First and Make America Great Again. But Trump really isn’t working for America. We have eloquent proof of that just this week with Trump’s simultaneous retreat from Minneapolis and advance on Iran.
No matter how you conceive of the United States—as a white man’s country, or as a multiracial society held together by “values” and “dreams”—having borders is pro-American. The Biden administration allowed some 20 million illegal migrants to enter the United States, joining tens of millions who were already here. Enough is enough. America simply will not exist unless all these people are removed. It was possible for them to come here. So of course it is possible to send them back. We simply need to muster up the will.
But Donald Trump lacks that will. He has done good things to prevent new immigrants and refugees from entering America. But he doesn’t have the will to remove the tens of millions who are already here. I’ve lost track of the number of times he has sold out to the cheap labor lobby.
But at least we were going to get rid of the really “bad hombres,” right? Nope, Trump has all but capitulated to the liberal insurrection in Minneapolis. Thus on February 4, border czar Tom Homan announced that 700 federal agents and officers would be immediately withdrawn from Minnesota (leaving about 2,000 in the state).
Instead of kicking in the doors of migrants with gang tattoos who are wanted for a litany of heinous crimes, Trump will be satisfied merely with picking through people who have been already arrested. The “worst of the worst” will remain free to prey upon American citizens.
Trump explained: “I learned that, uh [great confidence there] that maybe we can use a little bit of a softer touch. But you still have to be tough. There are criminals. We’re dealing with really hard criminals.” Trump isn’t just all talk and no action. He’s all double talk and no action.
How does he plan on doing that, exactly? There are indeed softer ways of conducting mass deportations, which ironically might be more effective than going door to door. These include making E-Verify (which is free) mandatory for employers, taxing remittances, barring people on welfare from sending money abroad, and enacting a federal version of California’s Prop 187 which would deny non-emergency social services to illegals. And most importantly, Trump could prosecute employers (aka his oligarch friends) who knowingly or recklessly hire illegals.
But Trump has shown no interest whatsoever in enacting these policies. This is despite the fact that the Homeland Institute has found high support for many of these “softer” policies (see here and here). But Donald Trump isn’t working for the American people. He’s working for his fellow oligarchs, who don’t want mass deportations at all, because there’s too much money to be made by destroying the American middle class.
But “softer” remigration policies may not work for the “worst of the worst,” who are now showcased like captured Pokémon on the DHS website. Somebody is going to have to kick in their doors. Otherwise, they will remain at large, victimizing Americans until the police arrest them. Then ICE will swoop in and declare victory.
Cucking on deportations isn’t just breaking a key campaign promise. It’s also dangerous. Like failing to conduct reprisals after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, failing to tame liberal strongholds will only encourage more Leftist violence. Why would they stop, when violence clearly works? The blood of future victims of Leftist violence is as much on Trump’s hands as antifa’s.
Despite retreating from Minneapolis, Trump is posturing like a triumphant conqueror. He plans to build a triumphal arch in Washington DC that will be 250 feet high, making it bigger than the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. This is supposedly to celebrate America’s 250th birthday, but it’s really about celebrating Trump’s ego.
America is a dying empire. But that seldom encourages realism and restraint. Indeed, when an empire is in decline, its leaders might launch wars thinking “It’s now or never.”
That’s clearly how the leaders of the Israeli regime are thinking. Israel’s leaders know that US support will die with the Boomers. Younger generations are less supportive due to the Gaza Genocide and the ongoing Epstein Affair. So Israel has every incentive to give America one last squeeze while they still can, and Zion Don is their man.
Just last year, Israel tried to drag America into a war with Iran. Thankfully, the Twelve Day War was just that brief. Israel took a surprising beating despite their initial advantage from a surprise drone attack launched from within Iran’s borders. Trump dropped some bombs, declared victory, and went home.
Unfortunately, last December, Trump blundered back onto the road to war with Iran.
In late December, Iran’s currency, the rial, collapsed to a record low, sparking protests in Tehran, initially by merchants and shopkeepers. As the demonstrations spread nationwide, their focus widened from economic grievances to calls for regime change. The Iranian government responded with an internet blackout and a violent crackdown by security forces.
Trump—who recently caved before much less violent protests in Minneapolis—stoked tensions in Iran: “Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!!” and “HELP IS ON ITS WAY.” Then, as on January 6, 2021, he did nothing and left the protesters to their fates.
When the government duly rounded up the protestors—some of them foreign agitators and terrorists—Trump threatened to attack Iran if the government executed any of them. Then he claimed that Iran had relented due to his threats. If so, that was a big mistake.
Trump also imposed 25% tariffs on countries trading with Iran and deployed naval forces—the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group—to the area as a threat.
Frankly, Iran has the cards here. Iran threatened to retaliate against any neighboring country from which the US attacks it, and these threats are being taken seriously. The entire region is counseling peace because they know that Iran can cause enormous damage to oil and natural gas facilities, power plants, airports, and harbors, throwing their economies into chaos and perhaps sparking political unrest.
The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group in the Arabian Sea
Interestingly, even the Israelis have asked Trump to postpone attacking Iran until more US assets arrive in the region because they don’t have the ability to defend themselves from Iranian retaliation. Basically, that means that the US is unable to defend them, after having exhausted American weapons stockpiles during the Twelve Day War. These stockpiles may take years to replenish.
Iran turned the “Art of the Deal” against Trump and threatened to walk out of today’s negotiations if they weren’t held in Oman instead of Turkey and if the US tried to insert additional topics like ballistic missiles instead of sticking to Iran’s nuclear program.
Why, then, are we threatening war against a country that is much larger, more populous, and more advanced than Iraq? A full-blown war against Iran would cost far more lives and money than America’s regime-change wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No sane and sober servant of the American people would contemplate such a war. Iran is not a threat to the United States or Europe.
If Trump were working for American interests, he would be focused on the home front: primarily immigration and the economy.
If Trump wanted to play geopolitical chess for American security interests, he would be focused on a genuine geopolitical rival: China.
If even some Israelis feel threatened by this, then Trump can’t even be accused of the standard treason of the entire American government, namely putting Israel first.
So why are we here?
It goes back to 2017, when Trump pulled out of the Obama administration’s agreement with Iran about halting nuclear weapons development. Trump has a deep rivalry with Obama and a strong need to one-up him. Thus he ran on the claim that Obama’s Iran deal was “terrible.” The usual suspects, of course, rejoiced, hoping that this could lead to war between the US and Iran. But now the main thing sustaining this is Trump’s ego.
Let’s hope that Trump invents another face-saving dodge, as with Greenland. After nine years of suspense and several weeks of saber-rattling in Gulf, it would be just like Trump to arrive at the status quo 2017 and proclaim it a great victory. Hell, if it keeps us out of war, we should even give him a victory parade beneath a pasteboard mockup of his 250-foot Arc de Trump.
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