Trump Hints U.S. Could Go to War With Allies Someday in Wild Presser
Trump’s order also directed Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to provide humanitarian assistance to Afrikaners and resettle them in the U.S. Afrikaners, a white minority in South Africa descended from Dutch and French colonists who came to the country in the seventeenth century, make up about 2.7 million of South Africa’s 62 million people.
At the root of Trump’s executive order and refugee plan is a land expropriation law in South Africa that the president and his benefactor, tech oligarch Elon Musk, claim is unfairly seizing property from white landowners in the country. In reality, the law is meant to address decades of white minority rule under the system of apartheid, which disenfranchised the country’s Black majority to the point that white farmers own about 75 percent of the country’s land. To date, the government has not confiscated any land.
Musk, who was born and raised in South Africa, criticized the country earlier this month after his Starlink venture failed to win approval to begin service in South Africa. At the same time, Trump blasted the country in a Truth Social post, again invoking alleged mistreatment of white farmers in the country.