I will say this for posterity and for the record. I will also hold your hands while I do.

Dear Nigerian Christians, Donald Trump is not your friend.

Donald Trump doesn’t give a hoot about you.

Donald Trump doesn’t care about Black Christians in his own country or in the countries he supports ongoing wars. So why would he care about someone from a country he holds in disdain?

Donald Trump does not care about Black people, least of all Black Africans.

Not so long ago, Donald Trump called your beloved country Nigeria, a shithole. Just a few weeks ago, he banned US visas for Nigerians, Christians and Muslims alike.

Ask yourselves this: if Nigeria were burning, even if that fire had been started by him, do you truly believe he would open America’s doors to you?

Do you imagine that you rank the same to Donald Trump as white South Africans, for whom he has enthusiastically opened U.S. gates, despite no credible evidence of persecution?

Do not be fooled, he does not give a damn about your Black African Christian ass.

Donald Trump is a war-enabling opportunist whose record shows a willingness to launch missiles, strike deals with genocidal leaders, threaten invasion, annex land, and destabilise entire regions; all in service of personal power and capitalist gain.

Missiles do not bring peace.

Bombs are not carriers of peace.

Donald Trump and peace do not belong in the same sentence.

He will pit brother against brother, sister against sister, sibling against sibling, if it gives him access to land, resources, or strategic advantage.

A genuine collaboration to flush out Boko Haram would involve transparency and consent, two leaders standing together in honest agreement, not missile launches preceded by threats, coercion, and intimidation.

Remember, white men are not your saviour. Nothing good has ever come from white imperial powers invading Africa. History should have taught us this lesson already. And history shows us exactly how such plots unfold.

White imperial powers have never been Africa’s saviours. The colonial record stares us in the face. European powers did not arrive as benefactors; they arrived as invaders, kidnappers, rapists, murderers, and extractors. They pacified populations through extreme violence, divided ethnic and religious communities to weaken resistance, and justified conquest with the language of “civilisation,” “order,” and “security.”

The same men who dazzled your ancestors with mirrors were the ones who chained them, murdered and raped your ancestral mothers, stripped the land bare, and transported both people and resources across oceans. They condemned generations to slavery, torture, hangings, and forced labour of over four centuries of one of the largest and most brutal atrocities in human history. The consequences of that violence are still borne by you today, while their descendants continue to enjoy the wealth and privilege it created.

Post slavery, they merely refined these methods. Across Africa, foreign powers propped up dictators, funded proxy wars, armed militias, and destabilised governments, not for African liberation, but for dominance and access to resources. African lives were treated as expendable chess pieces. The rhetoric was always the same – stability, security, counter-terrorism, protection. The outcomes were always the same – fractured societies, prolonged violence, and stolen futures.

This moment is no different.

Don’t validate Donald Trump’s rhetoric by thinking he’s doing this for you. This isn’t about you or your Christianity.

This is not about fighting terrorism, certainly not by another egoistic, power-hungry leader masquerading as a Christian saviour. It is a calculated strategy to sow disruption, not only in Nigeria, but across West Africa. It could present them an entry-point operation that could also serve broader geopolitical aims, including undermining the Alliance of Sahel States (AES)- the political, economic, and defence pact formed by Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso, a bloc notably sceptical of foreign interference and manipulation, and we know Burkina Faso’s leader, Ibrahim Traore, doesn’t suffer colonialists gladly.

It is therefore deeply troubling that, following public threats and hostile rhetoric toward Nigerian leadership, Donald Trump announced that he had authorised a U.S. missile strike targeting Sokoto, a predominantly Muslim northern state, on Christmas Day.

It is also highly doubtful that this missile launch was the result of genuine collaboration between the Nigerian and U.S. governments. There was no credible joint announcement, no transparent briefing, and no evidence of informed consent presented to the Nigerian public. Instead, the declaration came from Donald Trump himself, framed less as cooperation and more as self-congratulatory display, an exercise in his usual narcissistic political theatre.

Further concerns arise from the choice of the targeted area, reportedly a region that had been largely peaceful. This raises serious questions about intelligence credibility and targeting rationale. Trump publicly claimed the strikes were “perfect” and asserted that “many terrorists” had been killed. Yet reports from the ground indicate that no deaths were recorded, and that the missile landed in an empty field.

More troubling still, missile debris reportedly fell in Offa and Jabo areas not identified as targets. While it is fortunate that no lives were lost, homes belonging to innocent civilians were damaged or destroyed on Christmas Day. Despite this, Trump described the operation as perfect. These contradictions matter. Accuracy matters. Truth matters, especially when military force is deployed.

History demands that we interrogate such actions critically.

They did it to your ancestors. They are doing it again, this time with more polished language and deadlier weapons. And yet, Nigerian Christians kneel in praise of their attackers, mistaking domination for salvation.

Remember when they lied that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to unleash unjustified evil on Iraq?

Now they say there are ISIS in Nigeria. Are they looking for ISIS or Boko Haram?

Unfortunately, many have eyes but refuse to see. Many have ears but refuse to hear. Choosing instead to praise their attackers as saviours, to describe their captors as benevolent, and to elevate their killers as messiahs.

Dear Nigerian Christians, ask yourselves this: why place such faith in a demonstrably compulsive, ego-driven, and serially untruthful political figure, one whose words so often collapse under scrutiny, and whose actions repeatedly leave devastation in their wake?

Don’t get me wrong, there is no shame is asking for help from another country. My heart bleeds for the many lives lost and ruined by the Boko Haram bandits.

Seeking assistance to address the threat posed by these home-grown criminal groups is a reasonable course of action; however, it must be undertaken with clear accountability and transparency, while safeguarding the nation’s integrity, security, and sovereignty.

Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is deadly.

He who fails to learn from history is doomed to repeat it.