
Ouch…that’s gonna leave a mark.
Let’s put FAFO off to the side for the moment. The popular cultural catch phrase that probably better suits this particular situation would be, “Go woke, go broke”.
As it turns out, the South African Ambassador to the United States, The Honorable Ebrahim Rasool, thought it would be a good idea to personally insult;
- The President of the United States
- The MAGA Movement
- Our entire country
Big mistake Eebie… big mistake.
As noted by Breitbart.com (emphasis mine);
South African Ambassador Embrahim Rasool told participants in a foreign policy seminar Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump is leading a white supremacist movement in America and around the world.
Rasool was addressing the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA) in Johannesburg in 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.
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, and suggested that South African farmers who had presented Afrikaner grievances within the U.S. were part of that global effort.
Rasool said that South Africa could lead the pushback to Trump’s white supremacism, since the country was “the historical antidote to supremacism.”
Enter Sec. of State Marco Rubio. As seen in the X posting below;
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 @POTUS.
We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.https://t.co/mnUnwGOQdx
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) March 14, 2025
For those unsure, “Persona non grata” literally translates from Latin as “Person without gratitude/thanks”, but in legal and diplomatic-speak, the meaning is closer to “You don’t even EXIST in our eyes”.