President Donald Trump made the dismantling of the “American Empire” the initial objective of his first term. He appointed General Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor [1] and immediately eliminated the permanent seats of the CIA Director and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the National Security Council [2]. It was a bad move for him: the American imperialists joined forces with the Democrats against him, forcing him, within two weeks, to fire General Flynn, then launching all sorts of deceitful operations, including two impeachment proceedings, to accuse him of being a Russian agent in the White House.

So, armed with extensive experience, he approached his second term, still with the same objective: to dismantle the “American Empire.” This time, he only addressed the substance of the issue during his speech in Riyadh on May 13. After recalling his speech eight years ago, in the same room, during which he urged Muslim states to no longer support terrorist organizations [3], he called for trade to replace war. He denounced “nation builders,” “neoconservatives,” “liberal NGOs,” and “other interventionists claiming to reform complex societies they themselves don’t even understand” to praise the vitality of the people of the broader Middle East. He declared: “As I have shown time and again, I am ready to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even though our differences may be very deep.” […] “In recent years, far too many American presidents have been afflicted by the idea that it is our duty to examine the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice in place of their sins.” “[…] “If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, put aside your differences, and focus on the interests that unite you, then all of humanity will soon be astounded by what it will see here in this geographical center of the world, the spiritual heart of its greatest religions.”

But, off camera, it is in the courts that President Donald Trump is fighting to dissolve the organs of imperialism. For example, the Department of Government Effectiveness (DOGE) hastily dismissed officials from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), especially those from the US Institute for Peace (USIP) and the National Endowment for Democracy (NRD), but is failing to clean up the very obscure Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

First, Elon Musk was tasked with showing everyone that USAID is not the humanitarian aid agency it claimed to be, but a “criminal organization” (sic). It revealed $200 million in questionable overseas spending, including $1.5 million for Cuban opposition media, $2 million for a transgender comic strip in Peru, $2.1 million for the BBC in Libya, $8 million to buy subscriptions to Politico Pro, $10 million for meals for al-Qaeda-funded terrorist groups, $15.4 million for LGTBQI+ organizations, $20 million to produce an Iraqi version of “Sesame Street,” $75 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, and $150 billion aimed at building “an equitable world with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions” by 2030.

Republican Senator Joni Ernst (Iowa) also revealed to Congress that the so-called humanitarian agency USAID had paid $1 million in Ukraine to a $300,000 to the Ukraine Pet Alliance, which sells dog collars, $148,000 to a pickle company, $319,000 to a meatpacking plant, and $89,000 to a vineyard.

All the wording in these examples is shocking, but these are not, on the face of it, corruption cases, but rather cover-ups for covert actions, which is even more shocking.

Following a complaint by Democracy Forward and Public Citizen Litigation Group on behalf of the American Foreign Service Association and the American Federation of Government Employees, Columbia District Judge Carl Nichols suspended the pending administrative leave of 2,200 USAID employees. He also ordered the temporary reinstatement of 500 agency employees already on administrative leave.

The US and international response to the Trump administration’s attempt to cut USAID budgets was coordinated by Nina Jankowicz, the former Biden administration’s top censor, now based in London. According to Elon Musk, Jankowicz’s work was funded by USAID, a claim she denies.

Trump supporters have pointed out that the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), which provided the false “information” that allowed the impeachment proceedings against President Trump during his first term (UkraineGate), was a creation of USAID. Mediapart (France), Drop Site News and Reasonator (United States), Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy), and Reporters United (Greece) were merely straw media outlets used, perhaps unwittingly, by USAID to disseminate the “information” the CIA wanted to make public.

The dissolution of USIP and NED, however, was not possible. Indeed, these two agencies were created by President Ronald Reagan to publicly duplicate the actions of the CIA. They are therefore not under the control of the White House, but are autonomous legal entities, although their annual budgets are approved by Congress under the headings of the Departments of Defense and State. They are venture capital funds ostensibly dedicated to democracy. Just as NATO was officially created to fight communism, even though its first Secretary-General, Lord Ismay, avowed a completely different purpose, so too USIP and NED were officially created to empower those defending democracy against communism. But neither NATO nor USIP and NED were dissolved at the end of the USSR. Today, the military alliance and the two venture capital funds are nothing more than organs of Anglo-Saxon imperialism. This is why NATO is governed jointly by the United States and the United Kingdom, while USIP and NED have been incorporated into the Anglo-Saxon secret service alliance, the “Five Eyes” (Australia, Canada, the United States, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom). After the vast majority of their employees were fired, they successfully won their reinstatement in court. The reform, decided by DOGE, was deemed illegal and overturned by the courts. While President Donald Trump aimed to rid the world of them, neither the White House nor the Departments of Defense and State have the authority to dissolve them, regardless of the reality of their actions.

Yet it has now been established that USIP and NED used their federal funds, appropriated by Congress, to interfere not only in the political life of foreign states, but also in that of the United States. For example, these venture capital funds contributed to the creation of the Digital Forensic Research Laboratory (DFRLab), which censored Americans who denounced the rigging of the 2020 presidential election. They also funded a British association, the Global Disinformation Index, which launched a global campaign to cut advertising revenues to media outlets fighting against “American imperialism,” particularly pro-Trump US media.

DOGE also attempted to penetrate the Bureau of the Internal Revenue Service. Structurally, this is an agency under the authority of the Treasury Department. White House employees should therefore have been able to enter it and seize the salary payment files of foreign political officials. The “American Empire” employs heads of state, ministers, congressmen, and other political leaders around the world to defend imperial interests before those of their countries. At least twenty French officials appear on this list. Their salaries are at least 7,500 euros. Surprise: initially, a magistrate barred the DOGE from accessing it on the grounds that the file also contains confidential information on US citizens. Subsequently, the DOGE obtained permission for only one of its members to view the file, but not to copy it, and was only authorized to take notes with a pencil. We will therefore have to wait a while to discover who the traitors are in each allied country.

There are still other opaque structures of the “American Empire,” such as the U.S. African Development Foundation, just a few dozen meters from the White House. This organization is independent of the administration but relies solely on federal funds. When DOGE tried to enter, a private security service, armed with weapons, dissuaded it.

The imperialist opposition to the Trumpist revolution hasn’t had its last word. It is dragging out presidential decisions until the next midterm elections, hoping they will be lost by the Trumpists. Until then, it is creating new structures to take over when the current Congress no longer votes for it.