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Saturday, April 19, 2025

Racism behind Trump's attacks on South Africa using false claims of it being anti-White and anti-American - Milwaukee Independent

The Trump administration’s decision to expel the South African ambassador is its latest move against a country it has singled out for sanctions and accused of being anti-White and anti-American.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio posted on X that Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was “no longer welcome in our great country” and said he was “a race-baiting politician” who hates America and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Rubio’s post did not explain what was behind the decision but linked to a story by the conservative Breitbart news site. The story reported about a talk Rasool gave on a webinar where he said the Make America Great Again movement could be seen as being a response to “a supremacist instinct.”

Trump had already issued an executive order in February cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies. The order criticized the Black-led South African government on multiple fronts, saying it is pursuing anti-White policies at home and supporting “bad actors” in the world like the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.

WHITE FARMERS IN SOUTH AFRICA

A White minority group in South Africa has been a central focus for Trump. Trump falsely accused the South African government of a rights violation against White Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law. No land has been seized and the South African government has pushed back, saying U.S. criticism is driven by misinformation.

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