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Trump’s racism is not limited to America, but is a menace to the world.

Traditionally, Venezuela, like most Latin American countries , have been ruled by white elites, despite the variety of races in the country. The late President  Hugo Chavez disrupted that.  He was the first Venezuelan leader to embrace his Afro-indigenous heritage, His successor Maduro also did not come from white elites, with his indigenous roots. Throughout Latin America, the US has typically sided with the white ruling class and Venezuela is no exception.

So when an overt racist like Donald Trump becomes president of the US, he “chastises the non-white Madro government with scorpions”. He has imposed crippling, but illegal, sanctions on that country. These sanctions, in their first year alone, have caused the deaths of over 40,000 innocent men, women and children. Why kill them by invasion when you can starve them to death? As the corona virus has hit Venezuela, this evil vindictive racist master has increased the sanctions. He has also taken the unprecedented action of disregarding the election of Maduro to recognize non-elected member of the white elites, Juan Guido, as president of Venezuela. He followed that up by seizing the Venezuela embassy in Washington DC to turn it over to Guido. Simultaneously, he has put pressure on other countries to recognize Guido.

His racism has manifested itself in Bolivia too.  There the first indigenous elected president , Evo Morales, was overthrown by white elitists to make opposition senator Jeanine Áñez, the new president.  I suspect US complicity in this coup. Trump rushed to recognize the lilly-whiye usurper.

Let us move to Iran. One of the first things Trump did after he became president, was to break the nuclear treaty with Iran. None of the other signers,  the UK, France, China, Russia and Germany supported such an action but actually opposed it. Trump followed this up with harsh, but once again illegal sanctions, which took a severe economic toll on that country too. I am sure it has taken more than the 40,000 innocent lives that it took in Venezuela, but those figures are not available. Also, as that country has been hit by the corona virus, like this evil president did in Venezuela, he has increased sanctions also. Iran is a non-white Muslim country, This is a double whammy as they must deal with a racist Islamaphobe.  Let us not forget his Muslim ban.

There can be no question that Trump hated the very thought of a black president of the USA. First Trump declared himself a “birther”. By doing so, he claimed that Obama was ineligible to be president because he was not born in America. Now, Trump is doing everything to erase President Obama’s  legacy. President Trump has done away with nearly 100 environmental regulations in his first 3 years in office, in effect rolling back Obama’s legacy in that department. Even worse, he is moving heaven and earth to try to eradicate Obamacare, even though this would eliminate healthcare for millions of Americans.

His latest manifestation of racism is probably the worst.  The World Health Organisation  (WHO) Director-General,  Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, is not white and hails from Ethiopia. He has the distinction of being the first WHO Director-General to have been elected from multiple candidates from the World Health Assembly. As expected, the director-general  has played a prominent role in dealing with the corona virus pandemic. He has earned the respect and admiration of the world in grappling with this disaster. Trump has not. Suddenly, Trump announced that he was withdrawing America’s money from the WHO, knowing full well this would  be a calamity for that valuable organization. Shockwaves reverberated around the world  by such irresponsible mean action in such troubling COVID-19  times. If the WHO director was a blue-eyed blonde from Norway, Trump would never have taken this callous ruthless act.

The leaders of non-white countries worldwide cannot afford to forget that they are dealing with a racist in the Whitehouse. Trump considers them ‘shithole’ countries and to expect respect and fairness from him is a pipe dream.  Instead, they can expect to be bullied and threatened if they do not submit  to his ego.  Even worse, some like Venezuela and Iran, might suffer deaths of thousands of their innocent people because of him. He is on a rampage. That’s bad enough but where is the moral outrage?