The Trump Presidency Is Going Great

Fresh off using the Department of Justice as his own personal revenge squad against Black women in Congress, Trump decided to demonstrate his deep respect for Black women by publicly rating Nicki Minaj’s ass at a Michigan rally. He literally paused mid-speech to announce he’d just seen “one hell of a beautiful ass” and then made her stand up like a show pony while he licked his lips and the crowd howled. American democracy continues its transition from constitutional republic to deeply cursed strip-mall talent show.

This little pageant of humiliation is reportedly doubling as a job interview, because of course there are rumors Minaj might become the next White House press secretary after the last one set a land-speed record for fleeing the building. The article lays out how Trump’s “admiration” fits neatly into a long, ugly history of fetishizing Black women’s bodies—from Saartjie Baartman’s literal display in European freak shows to Trump’s own steady stream of “low IQ” attacks that his posts disproportionately aim at Black women like Kamala Harris, Jasmine Crockett, Maxine Waters, Ilhan Omar, and Letitia James. While Nicki willingly plays the administration’s helpful Jezebel, Trump is raiding Ilhan Omar’s home, targeting Sen. Louise Lucas, and weaponizing the state against Black women who don’t clap on command. Equal opportunity, he is not.

Student protests in France over crumbling schools, austerity and the soaring cost of living? According to Donald Trump and JD Vance, that sounds like a perfect chance to dust off the “blame the brown people” script and pretend it's immigration, not neoliberal rot, setting the country on fire. Trump hopped on Truth Social to declare “France is burning!” and blamed “immigration of people from an entirely different world,” then helpfully advised Paris to “Close your Borders and take control,” because nothing says nuanced foreign policy like Facebook-uncle racism in all caps.

Vance chimed in on X to explain that “Western liberals imported the third world into France,” proudly echoing the same white-nationalist talking points used by France’s National Rally, while he and Trump continue cheering on Marine Le Pen from across the Atlantic. The actual protesters are students and unions demanding functioning schools, livable wages, and lower fuel prices after U.S. strikes helped choke off the strait of Hormuz, but the White House’s official X account still went with: “If you import the third world, you become the third world.” Subtle.

Trump then told reporters he had warned Macron that “Paris is going to be a Muslim city very soon, and that wasn’t the deal,” bragging that “We closed our borders. He didn’t.” Meanwhile, Fox News riot porn played on giant screens at his Kansas rally like a campaign ad for fascism, while Mike Johnson and Eric Schmitt treated French unrest as a teaser trailer for the dystopia Democrats allegedly want for America. Curiously, this vigilant concern for European protesters does not extend to demonstrators in Albania, who are opposing a luxury resort tied to Jared Kushner’s investment firm. When it’s kids mad about tuition and fuel prices, it’s civilization collapsing; when it’s people mad about Trump-world grift on protected land, the administration suddenly loses its voice.

Donald Trump has set the 2027 US refugee cap at a microscopic 17,500 people and then effectively stapled a sign on the program reading: “whites only (preferably Afrikaans-speaking)”. Nearly every slot is being reserved for Afrikaners, while hundreds of thousands of already-vetted refugees from everywhere else get told to enjoy indefinite danger and maybe try not to die while the president chases his favorite far-right myth about a South African "white genocide" that even South Africa’s Afrikaner ambassador says doesn’t exist.

This is not a refugee program so much as a race-based admissions scheme with a State Department letterhead. Under Biden, the cap was 125,000; under Trump, it’s been chainsawed down to 17,500 and then packed with a demographic handpicked to flatter Fox News fever dreams. Refugees who had tickets in hand before Trump took office had their travel canceled at the last minute, while the administration now burns resources trying to recruit Afrikaners who mostly aren’t even interested. Humanitarian groups call it discriminatory and "particularly cruel"; the White House calls it proof that Trump has a "humanitarian heart"—which is certainly one way to describe a policy that strands non-white families in war zones to make room for a tiny, mostly theoretical pool of white refugees.

Officials at DHS are punting questions to the State Department, which dutifully cites Trump’s executive order 14204 and recites the script about "government-sponsored race-based discrimination" in South Africa. Meanwhile, the actual global refugee system—built over decades to avoid exactly this kind of nakedly politicized, racially curated decision-making—is being hollowed out and repurposed into a propaganda prop for the US and European far right. American asylum policy has been turned into a live-action Telegram channel where conspiracy theories become law and humanitarian need is only recognized if it looks good on a Turning Point USA poster.

American conservatives have finally answered the question, "What if our fascist nostalgia was just a little more on-the-nose?" Rep. Mike Collins of Georgia, already famous for having a Nazi-posting son-in-law as his next-door neighbor, dropped a meme tying Donald Trump to Rhodesia—the former white-minority regime that tried to keep Black people under armed white rule. The joke landed exactly where it was aimed: far-right posters cheered, declared "we are all Rhodesia now," and slapped old photos of shirtless Rhodesian troops under the banner "PATRIOTS IN CONTROL." When The Blaze staffers are breathlessly celebrating that we now have a "sitting congressman rhodesia-posting," you can practically hear democracy wheeze.

Collins is hardly an outlier. Texas Republican Bo French helpfully announced, "We need to be Rhodesia"—because nothing says "public service" like aspiring to a defunct white supremacist state. A Husted campaign staffer curated a cute little Spotify playlist of Rhodesia tribute songs, while Brandon Herrera, GOP House nominee and gun YouTuber, filmed himself doing "Rhodesian LARP" in full Rhodesian camo, firing a "based" Rhodesian rifle in front of a Rhodesian flag the ADL classifies as a hate symbol. He previously goose-stepped to a Nazi song on camera, which he insists was just "funny as hell"—a bold defense strategy that should pair nicely with his oath of office if he wins.

Hovering over all this is Donald Trump Jr., who looked at a country internationally recognized as a racist pariah state and thought, merch drop. He’s selling Rhodesian lifestyle apparel to the same crowd that once lionized Dylann Roof’s "Last Rhodesian" cosplay and watched James Earl Ray try to flee there after killing MLK. What used to be "morally untenable" is now just another GOP aesthetic: Rhodesia as vibe, as meme, as aspirational model. The party that screams about "law and order" is busily romanticizing an outlaw regime built on disenfranchising Black people at gunpoint—and turning it into a subscription box for fascist nostalgia.

The second Trump administration has discovered a miraculous new love for refugees — as long as they’re white, Afrikaans-speaking, and can be marketed as victims of anti-white racism. The State Department quietly told Congress it will carve out up to 17,500 refugee slots in FY 2027 "primarily" for White Afrikaners from South Africa, while the broader refugee program for, you know, people actually fleeing war and persecution worldwide remains functionally gutted.

Having spent years turning away Syrians, Afghans, Rohingya, Congolese and pretty much anyone whose skin tone interferes with a MAGA rally photo op, the administration is now dropping $500 million on a bespoke resettlement pipeline for descendants of European settlers. The same notice that pleads Afrikaners face state-backed discrimination also brags they’ll "fully assimilate" and "preserve taxpayer resources" — a neat little dog whistle suggesting brown refugees are both culturally dangerous and too expensive, while these ones are just right. Goldilocks fascism, but make it immigration policy.

To juice the narrative, Trump has been pushing the thoroughly disputed "white genocide" line in Oval Office show-and-tell sessions, even confronting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with a horror-montage video about farm murders that local experts and even Afrikaners themselves say reflects a broader crime problem, not racial extermination. That hasn’t stopped Washington from slapping sanctions on South African officials over alleged anti-white discrimination, because why not turn U.S. foreign policy into a Fox News segment with nukes? The message is clear: if you’re a refugee with the wrong passport or melanin level, the door is welded shut. If you help launder the administration’s race-war narrative, welcome to America.