By Daniel Johnson
March 16, 2025
Rubio said Ebrahim Rasool was persona non grata.
The State Secretary of the Trump government, Marco Rubio, said on March 14 in a social media post that the South African ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was considered by the Trump government as a persona -grata and is no longer welcome in the United States after Rasool dared to say the truth about Donald Trump's rise of American politics.
According to Al-Jazeera, Rubio wrote in his contribution on social media that he and his position regarded the Trump administration Rasool in the United States as undesirable.
“Ebrahim Rasool is a politician who hates America and hates potus,” wrote Rubio and referred to Trump. “We have nothing to discuss with him and he is considered a persona non grata.”
The South African ambassador in the USA is no longer welcome in our large country.
Ebrahim Rasool is a politician who hates America and hates @potus.
We have nothing to discuss with him and he is considered a persona non grata.https: //t.co/mnunwgoqdx
– Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) March 14, 2025
Rubio made his feelings on a link from the right-wing extremist news source Breitbart, who quoted Rasool that Trump was able to open up a white “supremacist instinct” and “white victim” and to describe these terms as “dog whistle” for racists during the election of 2024.
According to the NPR, Rasool contained comments in a seminar organized by a South African think tank.
“In this reason -the Supremacist attack on the term, we see it in the domestic policy of the USA, the Maga movement -The Make America Nuts movement -not only to a supremacist instinct, but also to very clear data, the great demographic changes in the USA, in which the vocal values in the USA are about the horizi and the horia. Said Rasool in the seminar.
The South African government reacted to the designation of its ambassador with a statement in which the desire to maintain a good relationship with the United States of America.
Vincent Magwenya, the spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, described the decision as “regrettable” before he asked for an commitment to decency.
“We ask all relevant and affected stakeholders to maintain the established diplomatic decency in their examination of the matter,” said Magwenya. “South Africa is still obliged to build a relationship with the United States of America.”
South Africa was a common goal of Trump's false representations in relation to the country's plans to deal with inequality with regard to the commercial arable land, which corresponds to the substance of Rasool's comments about what led to Maga's rise in American politics.
Although Trump pointed out that white farmers in South Africa have taken their land and invited them to settle down in the United States as refugees, the majority of the South African trade country are controlled by the white population of South Africa.
This was described by the South African government as an exercise in the irony, since they declared “ironically that the executive regulation in the USA for a group in South Africa has a refugee status for refugee status that is the most economically privileged.”
The South African government is ruled by the African National Congress (ANC), which was created after apartheid and should help the country heal the scars of its oppressive rule by the white minority of the country.
Although Trump seems to believe that white South Africans are a suppressed group, the South African authorities have stated that the country still bears the scars of apartheid due to continuing inequality between its minority-white population and its majority population.
It is noteworthy that Rasool and his family were excluded from their houses in Cape Town during the apartheid period when the black residents were collected and violently moved to designated areas for non-white citizens with almost zero resources or economic possibilities, similar to the United States of America on the trail of tears on the way.
According to Nicky Falkof, a professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, the idea that white South Africans are suppressed, and the idea that white people are eternal victims and the package of the white victim criticized the Rasool in his seminar.
“The architecture of the white dominance depends on the idea that white is extraordinary victims. This is the driving term under the great replacement theory, a right-wing extremist conspiracy theory in which it is claimed that Jews and non-white foreigners plan to “replace” whites. It also underpins violent reactions to the global migration crisis and the rise of populism in the north. 'Falkof wrote for the conversation for the conversation for the conversation.
She continued: “I don't think it goes too far to say that white as a social construction itself is connected by victims. The idea that whiteness actually makes people more than less vulnerable remains a central component of the collective mental psychological imaginary of the whites for some time. “
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