Rwanda president stuns CNN's Larry Madowo with response to Trump's USAID bloodbath

Rwanda's president left CNN's Larry Madowo stunned arsenic helium shared his stance on Donald Trump's determination to dismantle the US Agency for International Development.

Paul Kagame, 67, who has been successful the apical occupation since 2000, floored the network's overseas analogous erstwhile helium 'completely agreed' with the Trump's monolithic cuts to the authorities agency. 

Trump revealed helium would adjacent down the full organization, which delivers billions of dollars successful humanitarian assistance overseas, connected Friday.

'CLOSE IT DOWN!' Trump, 78, wrote of USAID connected Truth Social connected Friday morning, portion also accusing the bureau of rampant corruption and fraud. 

He had antecedently asserted that the agency was 'run by extremist lunatics.'

'President Trump has unconventional ways of doing things... I wholly hold with him connected galore things,' Kagame said during the special.

Madowo, an planetary analogous for the left-wing outlet, past questioned Kagame connected his stance portion pointing retired that the East African state 'depends connected immoderate US aid' for healthcare and development. 

'Even though it volition wounded you, arsenic Rwanda depends connected immoderate america assistance to money your healthcare and development?' Madowo probed.

'I deliberation from being hurt, we mightiness larn immoderate lessons,' Kagame replied.

USAID has been 1 of the national agencies astir targeted by the Trump medication successful an escalating crackdown connected the national authorities and galore of its programs.

'It’s been tally by a clump of extremist lunatics. And we’re getting them out,' Trump said to reporters astir USAID connected Sunday night.

Trump, his adjacent ally, present dubbed 'first buddy,' Elon Musk and immoderate Republican lawmakers person targeted the bureau successful progressively strident terms, accusing it of promoting wide causes.

The bureau was created to supply humanitarian alleviation overseas, however, it has been fixed the axe aft it was declared 'beyond repair' by the caller Trump administration.

USAID staffers were instructed to enactment retired of the agency’s DC office connected Monday aft Musk announced the president agreed with him to unopen the bureau down.

The billionaire 'first buddy,' who is starring a civilian reappraisal of the national authorities done the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has claimed the bureau is simply a 'criminal organization.'

'It became evident that its not an pome with a worm it in,' Musk said successful a unrecorded league connected X Spaces aboriginal Monday. 'What we person is conscionable a shot of worms. You’ve got to fundamentally get escaped of the full thing. It’s beyond repair.'

'We’re shutting it down.'

USAID, whose website vanished Saturday without explanation, administers billions of dollars successful humanitarian, improvement and information programs successful astir 120 countries.

It was established successful 1961 nether president John F Kennedy to 'lead US efforts to alleviate poverty, disease, and humanitarian need, and assists U.S. commercialized interests by supporting processing countries’ economical maturation and gathering countries’ capableness to enactment successful satellite trade,' according to the Congressional Research Service (CRS).

The assistance agency, which managed implicit $40million successful 2023, employs implicit 10,000 radical - with astir two-thirds serving overseas.

The countries who received the astir USAID-managed funds successful 2023 were Ukraine, Ethiopia, Jordan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Nigeria, South Sudan, and Syria.

USAID's biggest backing sectors person been related to wellness since the 1990s, with the bureau donating billions to combat HIV/AIDS astir the world.

Aside from funds for humanitarian alleviation similar nutrient and medicine, USAID besides funds pro-democracy NGOs that absorption connected acquisition and ineligible assistance successful places nether authoritarian regimes.

The bureau has besides helped money pro-democracy projects specified arsenic autarkic media successful nations similar Ukraine, Georgia, Venezuela and Mozambique. According to the Center for International Media Assistance, the US authorities is the largest nationalist donor to autarkic media improvement globally - mostly done USAID.

USAID has besides funded pro-LGBTQ initiatives specified arsenic a radical successful Serbia called 'Grupa Izadji,' which successful English translates to 'Group Come Out.'

Former Obama medication Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, led the bureau during Joe Biden's term.

While the authoritative USAID website has been unopen down, an archival leafage from the archetypal Trump medication describes its ngo arsenic 'promoting and demonstrating antiauthoritarian values and advancing a free, peaceful, and prosperous world.'