The United States expelled South Africa The ambassador, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, calling the envoy of “bait politician” who hates the president Donald Trump.
Links have dropped since Trump reduced financial assistance in the United States in South Africa, citing the disapproval of his land policy and his case of genocide against the ally of Israel from Washington to the International Court of Justice.
“The South African Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our big country,” said Rubio on Friday in an article on X on the rare ban on the first diplomat of a nation.
“Ebrahim Rasool is a politician who hates America and hates @potus (Trump).”
In the declarations of its department of presidency and international relations, South Africa qualified the regrettable move, but said that it remained determined to establish mutually beneficial relations and would address the question via diplomatic channels.
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Rubio republished an article from the Breitbart right site which quoted the envoy saying that Trump led a white supremacist movement. He must leave by March 21, said a spokesman for the State Department on Saturday.
Reuters could not contact Rasool or confirm his place.