Rubio Bounces Race Baiting South African Ambassador
One of the dangerous byproducts of the crazed disrespect being shown by Democrats is that other countries see it and feel that they can react in the same hateful way. Leftists have a huge superiority complex. They have no concept of reality outside of what is trapped inside their minds. They see responsibility to values and tradition as meaningless. Calling themselves progressives is an oxymoron, because nothing about what they seek is progressive.
South African Ambassador Embrahim Rasool is an example of this mentality. On Friday he told participants in a foreign policy seminar that U.S. President Donald Trump is leading a white supremacist movement in America and around the world.
Rasool addressed the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg, attempting to explain Trump’s recent foreign policy stances against South Africa’s property expropriation legislation and its alliances with Iran and Hamas, among others.
Rasool was referring to Trump’s executive order in February that severed aid to South Africa for its treatment of white Afrikaners. Trump disagreed with the order that reads that the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024 allows the “government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”
In a Breitbart article Rasool criticized both Department of Government Efficiency chair Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance for their public remarks supporting the U.K. Reform Party’s Nigel Farage and Germany’s Alternative for Deutschland party.
He said that white supremacism was motivating Trump’s “disrespect” for the “current hegemonic order” of the world, including institutions like the United Nations and the G-20.
He also said that the Make America Great Again movement was a white supremacist response to growing demographic diversity in the United States. He suggested that South African farmers who had presented Afrikaner grievances within the U.S. were part of that global effort.
In response to Rasool’s comments, the US is expelling South Africa’s ambassador to Washington. The secretary of state, Marco Rubio, accuses the envoy of hating the US and Donald Trump.
On Friday, Rubio posted on X:
“South Africa’s ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.”
Rubio accused ambassador Ebrahim Rasool of being:
“A race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him, so he is considered persona non grata.”
Rasool also attacked Elon Musk’s outreach to the far-right in Europe. He calls it a “dog whistle” in a global movement trying to rally people who see themselves as part of an “embattled white community”.
A spokesperson said on Saturday that Rasool must leave by Saturday.
Although the US rarely expels an ambassador, lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status. In this case, Rasool’s expulsion shouldn’t come as a surprise. As far back as Trump’s first term, Rasool posted that Trump “emboldens hate disciples globally.” Which is ironic because that’s precisely what he’s trying to do with his constant race baiting rhetoric.
