Trump is not America First. Like Biden, he's Israel First

Some Democrats will read this piece in hopes of finding an apology, or maybe simply an acknowledgement of a strategic miscalculation on the part of many Muslim leaders who advocated for third-party voting in the recent US presidential election.

They will find no such concession here, and I urge them to self-reflect instead on the state of their party - one that oversaw and continues to oversee the Israeli genocide of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians in Gaza, a process that has continued for more than 13 months. 

Their party didn’t sit silently as this happened, nor did it turn a blind eye; rather the Biden administration actively supported the genocide financially, militarily, and in every way imaginable.

As for the incoming president, Donald Trump, his America First policy agenda - peddled since his last term in office not as a departure from US global dominance, but as a shift to balancing global powers and making “foreign policy decisions based on outcomes, not on ideology” - has been touted as a reprioritisation of American citizens and their concerns. 

But Trump’s first tenure revealed this promise to be smoke and mirrors - and his second-term cabinet nominations paint an even bleaker picture.

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