South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool said on Friday that US President Donald Trump is leading. A white supremacist movement in America and around the world. According to the website Breitbart, Rasool, while addressing the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg, 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.
Rasool also said that the Make America Great Again movement was a white supremacist response to growing demographic diversity in the United States and suggested that South African farmers who had present Afrikaner grievances with the US were part of that global effort.
According to the report, he further added that South Africa could lead the pushback to Trump’s white supremacism since the country was the historical antidote to supremacism. He also said that South Africa could also encourage Trump’s “healthy disrespect” for global institutions that South Africa feels are dominated by the West and added that the stance of Trump was like “a broken clock being right twice a day.”
Rasool explained that what Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilising a supremacism against the incumbency, at home, and—I think I’ve illustrated—abroad as well.
“So in terms of that, the supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA 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,” he added.
Rasool also admitted to the seminar that South Africa lacked the ability to play the US and China off against each other as the trade with the US was more valuable.
