Why nothing will stop Trump from throwing mud at SA

UNDER US President Donald Trump, it is no longer debatable that the American empire is irrelevant as a beacon of exemplary and ethical leadership in global affairs today.

- SANDILE NGIDI

TENSIONS escalated after Donald Trump announced that South Africa would be barred from the 2026 G20 summit and lose US financial support. I IOL Graphics

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But this is not entirely new; Trump simply makes the unravelling of American imperialism more dramatic, if not tragic. What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their counuy into a paranoid state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.

American exceptionalism continues to put the country’s common sense into the deep freeze. As things stand, there is no charitable way to look at Washington beyond the stubborn nightmare of an unbelievably manic and dubious warmongering presidency.

When President Cyril Matamala Ramaphosa spoke to the nation on Sunday night, to briefly report on the recent G20 summit, he was indirectly inviting citizens to reckon with Trump's vitriolic attacks on South Africa.

But I doubt that most people in our country will ever fully know why Trump hates South Africa like a jilted lover. They may never understand why he announced on X that we are not invited to next year’s G20 meeting to be hosted by the US in Miami.

The American president has swallowed a lie like candy, thanks in part to a handful of lunatic Afrikaner traitors like AfriForum’s Kallie Kriel, who told him whites were being forced out of their land and wantonly killed, so to speak, by a corrupt black government and its white genocidal impis.