Rubio says South African ambassador is 'no longer welcome' in US
Source: CNN
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africas ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.
Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates President Donald Trump, Rubio alleged in a post on X.
We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA, Rubio wrote. Declaring someone persona non grata (PNG) is a severe diplomatic rebuke and usually forces them to leave the host country.
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Rubios post linked to an article from the right-wing news outlet Breitbart about Rasools comments to a think tank Friday about Trumps election and presidency.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/politics/rubio-south-africa-ambassador-no-longer-welcome-us/index.html
dweller
(27,858 posts)I hate the Pisswig too
am I PNG too ?
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slightlv
(7,438 posts)I'm just wondering when trump catches on that there are more who hate him than like him, if he'll deport us citizens to other countries. If so, can we choose the country?!
hlthe2b
(112,835 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(132,924 posts)hadEnuf
(3,527 posts)If the vermin in the White House don't like him, he must be wonderful.
applegrove
(130,332 posts)and annexation of Canada. I think that was him I saw in an interview. SA is a good friend to Canada. He's a straight shooter that is why they want him gone.
muriel_volestrangler
(105,581 posts)He said that the Make America Great Again movement was a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to shifts in US demographics in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white and that the possibility of a majority of minorities is looming on the horizon.
So that needs to be factored in, so that we understand some of the things that we think are instinctive, nativist, racist things, I think that theres data that, for example, would support that, that would go to this wall being built, the deportation movement, etc. etc., he said as part of his nearly 20 minute long remarks to the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA).
Rasool said its no accident that Musk has involved himself in far-right British politics and that Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of a far-right German political party before the elections there.
That then begins to say what was the role then of Afrikaners in that whole project, he continued. Very clearly its to project white victimhood as a dog whistle.
applegrove
(130,332 posts)that got him into hot water. I just meant that I would miss him.
Boomerproud
(9,160 posts)Unfortunately this story will go down the rabbit hole and we'll never hear from him again.
C_U_L8R
(48,892 posts)Have a lil dignity, Marco

rubbersole
(10,992 posts)...but after pegging tsf during the campaign, which is unforgivable in maga world, this level of groveling is oxygen to tsf. Keep slithering, lil' Marco. New depths await.
JustAnotherGen
(37,587 posts)Why would he want to visit a shit hole country?
tornado34jh
(1,521 posts)He definitely stuck a nerve all right. See, when Cyril Ramaphosa signed an expropriation land law, of course, Elon Musk, Boers and Afrikaners thought it was racism against whites. It should come as no surprise that they hate it. Of course, part of it is because of South Africa and the genocide case going on in the ICC.
travelingthrulife
(4,463 posts)approach of becoming a minority in this country.
tornado34jh
(1,521 posts)You don't need a telescope to see what the movement is all about. If they are upset by what he said, maybe you shouldn't be doing stuff that is going to get called out on.
SunSeeker
(57,591 posts)South Africa gets to choose its ambassador, not Trump. When you're ready to talk to Ambassador Rasool, he'll be at the South African embassy.
Igel
(37,383 posts)Kid Berwyn
(23,011 posts)Certainly doesn't recognize it in others.
IzzaNuDay
(1,241 posts)His leader, a 34x felon probably cant enter certain countries.
Well on the way to be the worlds pariah!