Trump's foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again

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Trump’s foreign policy vision: Make Europe white again
Trump's global "strategy" is grandiose, racist, and alarmingly dumb: Tyranny is cool, bro! But democracy sucks

By Andrew O'Hehir
Executive Editor
Published December 7, 2025 6:45AM (EST)


(Salon) To say that Donald Trump’s political movement is built on contradiction is an understatement. Trump’s entire movement is a contradiction: The promise to make America “great again” has always referred simultaneously to an imaginary past that never existed and an imaginary future that can never be achieved, not even under the totalitarian dictatorship of Stephen Miller’s late-night fantasies.

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Understandably enough, it’s the unhinged and unconcealed racist panic shoveled out in the Trump NSS that has generated international headlines. Europe, the document warns, is losing its historic cultural identity and faces the “stark prospect of civilizational erasure.” Exactly what is meant here by “identity” and “civilization” is only barely left unsaid, and the Great Replacement rhetoric is not so much borrowed as copied and pasted: It is “more than plausible,” we are told, that in coming decades “certain NATO members will become majority non-European,” and may no longer “view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way” they used to.

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We can’t exactly call it surprising that this overwrought Trumpian manifesto vows to go all-in on “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations” by encouraging the rise of “patriotic European parties” eager to celebrate their nations’ “individual character and history.” Or that the attitude expressed toward Russia, China and the oil-based monarchies of the Middle East amounts to a shrug emoji: Really far away! Not our problem! Live and let live! Ukraine-Shmukraine!

Or rather, it’s only surprising in the sense that whenever we think the Trump administration can’t outdo itself in overt bigotry, outright lies or vainglorious self-destruction, we turn out to be wrong. One could observe that Trump’s apparent plan to give Vladimir Putin almost everything he wants, Neville Chamberlain-style, in order to end the Ukraine war isn’t working too well, and that JD Vance and Elon Musk’s efforts to meddle in European elections on behalf of the xenophobic far right have at least partly backfired. None of that means, mind you, that this alternately idiotic and delusional document — described in that Economist editorial, using an enjoyable Anglo-idiom, as “a dog’s breakfast” — is not dangerous. ....................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2025/12/07/trumps-foreign-policy-vision-make-europe-white-again/