Old School. Biblically Independent.
By Dustin Rowles | News | March 28, 2025
It’s hard to overstate how embarrassing America has been on the world stage this week. It’s not just that our national security team inexplicably added a journalist to their group chat. We also had the Secretary of Homeland Security—fully suited up for the cameras—posing for a photo op in front of a Salvadoran prison filled with deported Venezuelans. Meanwhile, a Tufts Ph.D. student was disappeared by plainclothes ICE agents because the Administration didn’t like an op-ed she wrote for her college newspaper. And in a move that defies parody, the Administration’s so-called free speech advocates have also pledged to target critics of Tesla.
It’s no surprise, then, that Canada’s prime minister declared this week that the country’s relationship with the U.S., as we’ve known it, “is over.” Most of the world despises us. Our enemies don’t fear us. Everything President Trump once accused the world of thinking about Biden’s America is now true of this one: They are laughing at us. Because we are a laughingstock — a sick and dangerously unhinged laughingstock.
How bad is it? The Administration actually sent Usha Vance — the wife of Vice President J.D. Vance — on a goodwill mission to Greenland. For anyone who hasn’t seen Hillbilly Elegy or read the book, Usha is the lone character who wasn’t completely loathsome.
Her assignment? To lay the groundwork for this Administration’s insane attempt to annex Greenland — an idea nobody in Greenland wants, and honestly, nobody in America wants either. It’s ridiculous. We already have a military base there. Greenlanders are outraged — fully 85 percent oppose the idea — and the outgoing prime minister described the Vances’ visit to that base as “very aggressive American pressure against the Greenlandic community.”
How unwelcome was it? Usha Vance had to cut her visit short. Why? Because literally no one wanted her there. According to Danish reporting, U.S. officials went door-to-door in Nuuk trying to find someone, ANYONE, willing to greet Usha and shake her hand. There were no takers. They don’t want anything to do with her — or America — and who can blame them?
Her original itinerary included attending a dog sled race and visiting several historic sites, but after the unwelcome reception, the trip was reduced to a stay at the military base — 900 miles from the capital. We are loathed the world over, and it’s only been 68 days since this Administration took office.
