Trump’s first-ever tweet about Africa as president is about white people
President Donald Trump made his first-ever tweet as president about Africa late Tuesday. It is about the white people being treated unfairly.
I have asked Secretary of State @SecPompeo to closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers. “South African Government is now seizing land from white farmers.” @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2018
Trump’s order to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on the words of cable news host Tucker Carlson, to investigate the seizing of farms from white people in South Africa was read online as an explicit overture to the president’s white nationalist supporters.
From 1960-1983, 3,500,000 Non-White South Africans were removed from their homes and fo...