South African Ambassador Ebrahim 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.