Donald Trump threatens yet another country after Canada and Mexico hit with massive tariffs

Donald Trump has threatened to chopped disconnected each assistance to South Africa aft what helium called a 'massive quality rights violation', with the country's person threatening to expropriate farmers' land

President Donald Trump appears to person ramped up his planetary economical war, already having imposed hefty tariffs of 25 per cent connected imports from Canada and Mexico. He present appears to beryllium targeting South Africa, vowing to slash each assistance to the federation successful effect to what helium calls a "massive quality rights violation."

Following South Africa's effort astatine onshore betterment to shed assemblage legacies, Trump declared connected Sunday that helium would halt the full $318 cardinal US assistance package until Pretoria rethinks its approach.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa contends that the contentious instrumentality permitting onshore expropriation, sometimes without compensation, is meant to redress "the bequest of assemblage dispossession."

Land issues person been a hot-button taxable successful South Africa since the extremity of apartheid – a strategy of ineligible radical segregation which protected achromatic number interests for astir fractional a century, lone concluding with Nelson Mandela’s historical presidency successful 1994. But President Ramaphosa present points to the enduring "apartheid spatial planning," with whites inactive predominantly owning land, thing his medication intends to dismantle.

On his Truth Social platform, Trump vented: "South Africa is confiscating land, and treating definite classes of radical VERY BADLY. It is simply a atrocious concern that the Radical Left Media doesn't privation to truthful overmuch arsenic mention. A monolithic Human Rights VIOLATION, astatine a minimum, is happening for each to see."

With Elon Musk's support, who heads the Department of Government Efficiency, Trump didn't mince words regarding Ramaphosa: "The United States won't basal for it, we volition act. Also, I volition beryllium cutting disconnected each aboriginal backing to South Africa until a afloat probe of this concern has been completed!"

Following his societal media outburst against the South African government, Trump told journalists that their "leadership is doing immoderate unspeakable things, horrible things," but stopped abbreviated of giving immoderate details. This isn't the archetypal clip Trump has targeted the nation; during his archetypal term, helium claimed achromatic farmers successful South Africa were being killed and their lands seized, an accusation that has not been verified.

While it remains unclear whether Musk had immoderate power connected Trump's determination to halt aid, the Tesla brag has antecedently expressed his views connected onshore ownership. Born successful 1971 during the Apartheid epoch to a South African technologist and a Canadian model, Musk became a US national successful 2002.

He co-founded PayPal with chap billionaire and South African Peter Thiel, who aboriginal introduced Trump to his existent Vice President, JD Vance. However, Musk has precocious been acrophobic astir the contented of achromatic onshore ownership.

After a video surfaced successful 2023 of activists singing the anti-Apartheid anthem "Kill the Boer", Musk, primitively from Pretoria, faced backlash for stating: "They are openly pushing for genocide of achromatic radical successful South Africa."