USA President Trump — Africa, We Will Take Your Resources, Thank You!
July 11, 2025•503 words
“Colonialism is not satisfied merely with holding a people in its grip and emptying the native's brain of all form and content. By a kind of perverted logic, it turns to the past of the oppressed people, and distorts, disfigures and destroys it.” ~ Frantz Fanon
“The West has never been interested in Africa except to exploit it.” ~ Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line.” ~ W.E.B. Du Bois
At the African summit, it became apparent almost immediately that this gathering was not about mutual respect or collaboration, it was Trump and his administration acting as if they are on the NBC tv series, The Apprentice.
From the moment President Trump arrived on stage, the event turned into a display of American power, not diplomacy. Rather than being treated as a leader of a sovereign nation, you felt reduced to a symbolic figure in a show choreographed to elevate him as an emperor. Trump assumed the starring role, choreographing interactions, while you and other African leaders were cast as background players, expected to smile, applaud, and offer, In a new style of imperialism and colonialism, your nations’ resources, oil, minerals, land.
Here is the problem with the new American Trump Imperialism...
I threaten you with economic sanctions, or tariffs, or taxes, against you and all of your people!
You give me your precious minerals, oil, gas, and raw rare minerals for my military, and any types of minerals that are needed for my country. And, thank you.
No reciprocal development. No aid, no development, nothing! We Americans take what you have, and we get wealthy, and you get poor.
We are living a new so-called style of American imperialism and colonialism...
Reap and pillage and do not respect the peoples of other nations, just get wealthy off of them, in 2025 and onward!
The moment he proclaimed that you represented the entire continent of Africa, ignoring the limited economic relevance of your countries to U.S.-Africa trade, it became clear that he wasn’t interested in your leadership or your people.
What mattered was the ground you stood on, wealth for USA.
That tone of disrespect only deepened when he expressed astonishment at the Liberian president’s fluent English, seemingly unaware, or uncaring, that English has been Liberia’s official language for over a century. It reminds us of the old colonial disbelief that intelligence or eloquence could emerge from Africa without Western influence.
And when he complimented a renowned well-educated and intelligent Angolan journalist on her black looks instead of her work, it reinforced how deeply ingrained this dismissive gaze was, where individuals were reduced to objects of fascination, not respected hard working contributors.
Trump’s words, his demeanor, his prioritization of resources over humanity, each peeled away the illusion of partnership. What remained was the bleak reality, this was not diplomacy, but modern colonial drama, directed by a man uninterested in Africa’s voice and invested in keeping it marginalized.
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