Seriously. Donald Trump floats one bizarre idea after the next, several of them clearly imperialistic. Retake Panama. Take Greenland for the US. Make Canada the 51st state and, while we're up, rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. While this land-grabbing may be just so 19th century, his friend Putin is at war for exactly that in his fever dreams of a new Russian empire, and his other friend Netanyahu is closing in on his own irredentist vision of Greater Israel. No one outdoes Donald Trump! The subtle difference of attempting to seize land that once was part of a country and just grabbing someone else's sovereign nation may be lost on The Donald--aren't all nuances?--but we get the point; he aims to claim the best and most in all categories. As Susan Glasser pointed out[1] in The New Yorker, his post on Christmas 2024 laid out his goals and then concluded with a grand and obviously sincere Merry Christmas to the “Radical Left Lunatics” who were the losers to him in “the Greatest Election in the History of Our Country.” Oy gevalt!
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Monday, July 07, 2025
Excursion to the bizarre world of Trump: Make colonialism fashionable again
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