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groundloop

(13,570 posts)
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:21 PM Mar 2025

Rubio says South African ambassador is 'no longer welcome' in US

Source: CNN


US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africa’s 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.

[snip]

Rubio’s post linked to an article from the right-wing news outlet Breitbart about Rasool’s comments to a think tank Friday about Trump’s election and presidency.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/politics/rubio-south-africa-ambassador-no-longer-welcome-us/index.html

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Rubio says South African ambassador is 'no longer welcome' in US (Original Post) groundloop Mar 2025 OP
Goodness dweller Mar 2025 #1
Absolutely! slightlv Mar 2025 #10
Great. Now do ELON.... hlthe2b Mar 2025 #2
Elon probably lobbied for his ejection. Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2025 #19
Obviously Ebrahim Rasool is a great guy. hadEnuf Mar 2025 #3
I think he came out hard against Trump's bullying applegrove Mar 2025 #4
It says it was this fair analysis: muriel_volestrangler Mar 2025 #7
Oh I wasn't saying it was his remarks on Canada applegrove Mar 2025 #8
Obviously a very well-spoken man. Boomerproud Mar 2025 #17
Slavishly doing his master's bidding C_U_L8R Mar 2025 #5
He was always a shit weasel worthless senator... rubbersole Mar 2025 #9
He's not missing anything JustAnotherGen Mar 2025 #6
Ebrahim Rasool wasn't wrong in what he said. MAGA's whole platform is basically white supremacy grievances. tornado34jh Mar 2025 #11
Yup. And he said out loud the part about white supremacist/GOP fearing the travelingthrulife Mar 2025 #14
That is no surprise, but again, he wasn't wrong tornado34jh Mar 2025 #15
I'm sure he has nothing to discuss with you either, Marco, so go fuck yourself. SunSeeker Mar 2025 #12
If anybody wants to actually hear/watch what Rasul said ... Here's the link. Igel Mar 2025 #13
Micro Rubio has never known integrity. Kid Berwyn Mar 2025 #16
Did Little Marco forget? IzzaNuDay Mar 2025 #18

slightlv

(7,438 posts)
10. Absolutely!
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 10:20 PM
Mar 2025

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?!

hadEnuf

(3,527 posts)
3. Obviously Ebrahim Rasool is a great guy.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:26 PM
Mar 2025

If the vermin in the White House don't like him, he must be wonderful.

applegrove

(130,332 posts)
4. I think he came out hard against Trump's bullying
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 06:44 PM
Mar 2025

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)
7. It says it was this fair analysis:
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:05 PM
Mar 2025
“What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency at home and … abroad as well,” said Rasool, who was on his second tour as ambassador to the US. He presented his credentials in mid-January to then-President Joe Biden and previously served in Washington, DC, under the Obama administration.

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 there’s 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 “it’s 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 it’s to project white victimhood as a dog whistle.”

applegrove

(130,332 posts)
8. Oh I wasn't saying it was his remarks on Canada
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:11 PM
Mar 2025

that got him into hot water. I just meant that I would miss him.

Boomerproud

(9,160 posts)
17. Obviously a very well-spoken man.
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 01:05 PM
Mar 2025

Unfortunately this story will go down the rabbit hole and we'll never hear from him again.

rubbersole

(10,992 posts)
9. He was always a shit weasel worthless senator...
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 07:48 PM
Mar 2025

...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.

tornado34jh

(1,521 posts)
11. Ebrahim Rasool wasn't wrong in what he said. MAGA's whole platform is basically white supremacy grievances.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:03 PM
Mar 2025

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)
14. Yup. And he said out loud the part about white supremacist/GOP fearing the
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 10:44 AM
Mar 2025

approach of becoming a minority in this country.

tornado34jh

(1,521 posts)
15. That is no surprise, but again, he wasn't wrong
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 11:37 AM
Mar 2025

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)
12. I'm sure he has nothing to discuss with you either, Marco, so go fuck yourself.
Fri Mar 14, 2025, 11:44 PM
Mar 2025

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.

IzzaNuDay

(1,241 posts)
18. Did Little Marco forget?
Sat Mar 15, 2025, 05:01 PM
Mar 2025

His leader, a 34x felon probably can’t enter certain countries.
Well on the way to be the world’s pariah!

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