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Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, South African ambassador to the United States, announced a “unwanted figure” on Friday, describing him as “a politician with a stab wound that hates America.”
In a post on x Rubio He wrote that Ibrahim Rasoul “is no longer welcome in our great country”, and is linked to a report from the conservative Breitbart News website about an online lecture given by the Ambassador on the foreign policy of the Trump administration and its effects on South Africa.
“What Donald Trump launches is an attack on job jobs, those who are in power, by filling out superiority against homes, at home … and abroad,” Rasul. He said In the online event hosted by the Mapungubwe Institute in South Africa for strategic reflection.
Rasool’s expulsion is the latest episode in the rapid deterioration of relations between Washington and Bretoria since Trump took office.
South Africa brought measures against Israel in the International Court of Justice at the end of 2023, accusing Israel of violating international laws on genocide during its war against Hamas in Gaza, which is something that Israel is strongly denied.
Last month, Trump froze external assistance to South Africa, and partially retracted the issue of the International Court of Justice in addition to his complaints about land confiscation policies in Pretoria, which angered the president and his billionaire consultant in South Africa Elon Musk.
In his lecture, Rasol added that “Trump’s superiority attack on” visible “in the local policy of the United States of America, the Maga movement. A reaction is not simply to a superior instinct, but for very clear data showing major demographic transformations in the United States of America, it is expected that voters in the United States will become white 48 percent,” according to the video posted on YouTube.
The signs of the ambassador on an unwanted personality are a rare and dangerous diplomatic step.
Last month, Rubio crossed a meeting of South African foreign ministers accusation Pretoria of “anti -America” and doing “very bad things”, such as confiscating private property and using the summit to enhance the designation of diversity, inclusion and climate change.
Rasol, a veteran diplomat, who was honest in his criticism of Israel in the past, said before he took office in December that he would put “South Africa’s” amplifiers in Gaza while he was happy to reform relations preserved with Washington.
