Trump has announced an even higher tax burden on Americans, claiming domestic hardship will pressure Canada to listen to him. He makes about as much sense as if he was telling a Canadian woman that if she doesn’t date him then Trump will beat his own wife.
Think about it. If you don’t listen to Trump he will shoot himself in the foot. If you don’t listen to Trump he will smash his own balls with a hammer. No wonder his TACOnomics ends about as well as the Tesla Cybertruck.
In this context, none of the world needs to form some grand anti-American alliance, because Trump is actively punching himself in the face. Global realignment already emerges, with Asia and the EU rotating rapidly to align with Canada, away from mob-like threats from America. Canada de-facto becomes seen as the most stable North American geopolitical node connecting economies, as everyone judges syphilitic-lunacy of Trump as bad for business.
To put it simply, Trump regressed into “fortress economy” doctrine resembling Hitler, abruptly waging the highest tariffs since WWII, regressed the military from power projection to his personal extraction of foreign resources and suppression of domestic dissent, and eroded the dollar hegemony. The trust that underpins America evaporates by association with Trump, like everything Trump has ever done.
No surprises here.
Trump Brand is Rapid Devaluation
Trump Steaks were an overpriced commodity pushed into wrong venue (Sharper Image), collapsed in months.
Trump Vodka was called “success distilled” when it couldn’t succeed.
Trump University was just fraud, with hush money for settlements.
Trump Casinos were multiple bankruptcies and suspicious deaths, despite the house literally always wins.
The fraud pattern is not hard to see: grab control of something of value, glue a false skin over everything to generate false inflation, extract all the prior value, pull out to watch it deflate completely, blame others, move on.
American Devaluation
Covered by a gaudy fake reskin, like Trump himself, what’s America known for now?
Not security – threatening to invade allies and telling them they’re on their own now, illegally abducting foreign leaders, reorienting military toward domestic crackdowns on dissent, ignoring China, ignoring North Korea, pandering to Putin
Not market access – highest tariffs since 1946, trade policies randomly rotating by tantrum
Not rule of law – doctrine of one man in charge, no checks and balances, TACO as investment strategy
Not stability – the one thing reserve currency status actually requires
Not partnership – insulting and threatening NATO, unilateral wars started on multiple fronts, intelligence network cut off after used in war crimes
Not tourism – Canadian travel down 31%
Not imports – Canadian spirits down 85%
Trump toxic failure is America now. The brand is bankruptcy and the product is worse.
There’s already data predicting a global shift away from Trump’s military dictatorship.
Dollar Devaluation
Dollar share of disclosed global FX reserves dropped to 56.92% in Q3 2025 – the lowest since 1994. The US Dollar Index fell nearly 10% through September, with even steeper declines against certain individual currencies – 13.5% against the euro, 13.9% against the Swiss franc.
Gold rose to a fresh record of $4,684.30 per ounce. That’s a clear signal of central banks diversifying out of Trump tainted dollars into real assets.
The leverage point that should be talked about more and more? European countries own $8 trillion of U.S. bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined, according to George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche Bank.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie has put it like this:
As the dollar’s reserve currency status diminishes, so does our ability to tax the world by creating more money. When reserve status is lost, maintaining current spending levels and servicing the debt will be even more painful for Americans who will bear the full inflation tax.
Americans are bearing the most pain of Trump’s antics.
Security Devaluation
Withdrawing links globally, shutting down all trade routes other than those direct to a dictator, while also turning the military inward against its own population, is a familiar pattern to historians.
The security stand-down and redeployment pattern is stark. US completed withdrawal from al-Asad airbase in Iraq – the main presence in the country. Syria rapidly pushed the US presence out and it went almost completely unnoticed, like the Epstein Files.
US-backed forces lost 8 bases, leaving them one at best, after Syrian government forces of al-Sharaa pushed on Trump, and took control of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor. The US even weighed into Israel to block it from complaining about the collapse of US security.
The Houthis likewise declared an easy victory against Hegseth’s billions poured out of the sky. The rout was so severe that Israeli panic rushed into unilateral recognition of Somaliland. The all-show-no-go of Hegseth precipitated a pivot of the USS Gerald Ford to the Caribbean as part of US Southern Command for Operation Southern Spear – it moved from Mediterranean security operations to Latin America for punching down for resource extraction (feeding Trump’s personal bank account in Qatar, to cut out Congressional oversight entirely).
Republican Rep. Massie wrote wistfully, as if Congress even matters anymore:
Selling stolen oil and putting billions of dollars in a bank in Qatar to be spent without Congressional approval is not Constitutional. The President can’t legally create a second Treasury overseas for his own piggy bank.
Except he did, because he’s a dictator and nobody is stopping him. His stormtroopers executing citizens in Minnesota signal the self-funded militant dictator is already eliminating those who disagree. It’s no exaggeration to say Trump stormtroopers were deployed entirely politically to opposition areas, where they publicly executed two citizens within days, and keep threatening there’s more of that to come.
Senator Elizabeth Warren correctly explained:
There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military. That is precisely a move that a corrupt politician would be attracted to.
It’s illegal. Until you accept that in a military dictatorship the only law is whatever Trump does. Inquiring minds want to know if Peter Thiel (of “digital Swiss Bank Account to launder Apartheid wealth” infamy, also known as PayPal) was the one who set it up precisely so Congress does not know the specific bank holding the funds, the precise type of account used, who has authority to approve transfers, what audit rights exist, or how transparency and oversight are enforced.
Pentagon leadership’s National Defense Strategy is a dramatic shift from prior plans, almost an exact copy of the doctrine promoted in Canada during the 1930’s by pro-Hitler politicians, such as Elon Musk’s grandfather who was convicted for it during WWII, prompting his emigration to South Africa.
Let me be more precise. Errol Musk claimed as late as 2024 that his father-in-law had promoted Nazi Germany during World War II. Aside from antisemitic speeches, he was mapping out America, Canada and Greenland ruled by a dictator. The Musk rush to South Africa after Hitler was defeated was motivated by escaping to a white supremacist state. Errol Musk said of his wife’s family that they continued to promote Nazism while “very fanatical in favor of apartheid.”
Musk’s grandfather literally promoted the plan for merging US, Canada, and Greenland under authoritarian rule aligned to Hitler. Thiel, allegedly also aligned to Hitler, is funding it. Trump is executing it.
Trump declared domestic use of the military to suppress dissent, which former military officials and experts on civil–military relations admit is an attempt to get Americans used to living under control of Trump stormtroopers, to the tune of a half-billion dollars to fund the National Guard occupation of American cities.