Trump's White Christian Foreign Policy

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According to our new official National Security Strategy, we have to support Europe’s neo-Nazi right in its fight to keep Europe white.

https://prospect.org/2025/12/08/trumps-white-christian-foreign-policy/


Protesters gather at a rally in support of immigrants outside Signature Aviation near the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, December 3, 2025, in Minneapolis. Credit: Tom Baker/AP Photo

The National Security Strategy document that the Trump administration released on Friday was only secondarily American—that is, rooted in our nation’s foundational creed (however imperfectly followed) of human equality. It was primarily a document rooted in white Christian nationalism. The primacy of this deeply anti-American set of beliefs was made particularly clear in the document’s section on Europe. It was already plain to see in Trump’s refugee policy, which now welcomes almost exclusively white South Africans, and in Vice President Vance’s claims of the superior American legitimacy of the descendants of the immigrants from Northwest Europe who came before 1880. But the administration’s strategic goals for Europe plunge us even deeper into the muck of white Christian nationalism.

Europe, the document proclaims, faces “the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure. The larger issues facing Europe include activities of the European Union and other transnational bodies that undermine political liberty and sovereignty, migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife, censorship of free speech and suppression of political opposition, cratering birthrates, and loss of national identities and self-confidence. Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less … We want Europe to remain European, to regain its civilizational self-confidence, and to abandon its failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”

In other words, the European Union regulates U.S. corporations in ways that sometimes favor European workers and consumers over our corporations. In other words, migration from Asia and Africa is diluting the white, Christian essence of traditional European civilization. To forestall this dilution, “American diplomacy should continue to stand up for genuine democracy, freedom of expression, and unapologetic celebrations of European nations’ individual character and history. America encourages its political allies in Europe to promote this revival of spirit, and the growing influence of patriotic European parties indeed gives cause for great optimism.” The administration has already made clear who our “political allies” are in the struggle to keep Europe European. In Germany, it’s the AfD, the far-right neo-Nazi party to which Vance has pledged his support. In the U.K., it’s Nigel Farage’s racist Reform UK party.

“Over the long term,” the strategy document continues, “it is more than plausible that within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. As such, it is an open question whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States, in the same way as those who signed the NATO charter.” (Of course, the signatories of the NATO charter in 1949—veterans in the war against the Nazi domination of Europe—were affirming their opposition not just to Stalinism, but to fascism and religious intolerance as well.) The current administration’s policy for Europe, the document concludes, should prioritize such policies as “Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations.” That is, the same resistance to Black and brown immigration that defines Trump’s domestic policies as well.

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