Trump is the leader scared 'New Right' that is afraid of immigrants

President Donald Trump speaks to guests from the South Portico of the White House during an event on the South Lawn on June 04, 2025 in Washington, DC.  [Getty Images via AFP]

Donald Trump is unique and self-assured. He is the dominant political force in the New Right movement that is out to disorganise the world. The US President’s behaviour inspired some Europeans, calling themselves ‘Patriots for Europe’, whose agenda is to ‘Make Europe Great Again’, similar to Trump’s Make America Great Again. One of Trump’s pet projects is to repossess the Panama Canal and annex Canada. He is not the first American official to express such imperialistic desires.

The impression that the existence of Canada is a geopolitical anomaly can be traced to the War of 1812 between the US and Britain with its two unexpected outcomes; a hero in Andrew Jackson and a national anthem. As president, Jackson popularised democracy for white men and had an ‘ass’ as symbol of the Democratic Party. Trump may be like Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt in being bombastic and attention seeking. A warmonger partially responsible for the war against Spain, Roosevelt grabbed Panama from Columbia, built a canal to link the Pacific and the Atlantic, and then boasted of what he had done and let Congress debate it. He was also an environmentalist, earned a Nobel for making Russo-Japanese peace, and was an adventurer who visited East Africa after his presidency in 1909 and urged white settlers to turn Kenya into ‘White Man’s Country’. Like Roosevelt, Trump wants a Nobel and so he struggles to make a Russo-Ukraine peace.