Rubio says South African ambassador is 'no longer welcome' in US

[groundloop]

Source: CNN


US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome in our great country.”

“Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates” President Donald Trump, Rubio alleged in a post on X.

“We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA,” Rubio wrote. Declaring someone persona non grata (PNG) is a severe diplomatic rebuke and usually forces them to leave the host country.

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Rubio’s post linked to an article from the right-wing news outlet Breitbart about Rasool’s comments to a think tank Friday about Trump’s election and presidency.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/14/politics/rubio-south-africa-ambassador-no-longer-welcome-us/index.html

[dweller]

1. Goodness

I hate the Pisswig too … am I PNG too ?
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[slightlv]

10. Absolutely!

I'm just wondering when trump catches on that there are more who hate him than like him, if he'll deport us citizens to other countries. If so, can we choose the country?!

[hlthe2b]

2. Great. Now do ELON....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Elon probably lobbied for his ejection.

[hadEnuf]

3. Obviously Ebrahim Rasool is a great guy.

If the vermin in the White House don't like him, he must be wonderful.

[applegrove]

4. I think he came out hard against Trump's bullying

and annexation of Canada. I think that was him I saw in an interview. SA is a good friend to Canada. He's a straight shooter that is why they want him gone.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. It says it was this fair analysis:

“What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency at home and … abroad as well,” said Rasool, who was on his second tour as ambassador to the US. He presented his credentials in mid-January to then-President Joe Biden and previously served in Washington, DC, under the Obama administration.

He said that the Make America Great Again movement was a response “not simply to a supremacist instinct,” but to shifts in US demographics “in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white and that the possibility of a majority of minorities is looming on the horizon.”

“So that needs to be factored in, so that we understand some of the things that we think are instinctive, nativist, racist things, I think that there’s data that, for example, would support that, that would go to this wall being built, the deportation movement, etc. etc.,” he said as part of his nearly 20 minute long remarks to the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA).

Rasool said “it’s no accident” that Musk has involved himself in far-right British politics and that Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of a far-right German political party before the elections there.

“That then begins to say what was the role then of Afrikaners in that whole project,” he continued. “Very clearly it’s to project white victimhood as a dog whistle.”

[applegrove]

8. Oh I wasn't saying it was his remarks on Canada

that got him into hot water. I just meant that I would miss him.

[Boomerproud]

17. Obviously a very well-spoken man.

Unfortunately this story will go down the rabbit hole and we'll never hear from him again.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Slavishly doing his master's bidding

Have a lil dignity, Marco

[rubbersole]

9. He was always a shit weasel worthless senator...

...but after pegging tsf during the campaign, which is unforgivable in maga world, this level of groveling is oxygen to tsf. Keep slithering, lil' Marco. New depths await.

[JustAnotherGen]

6. He's not missing anything

Why would he want to visit a shit hole country?

[tornado34jh]

11. Ebrahim Rasool wasn't wrong in what he said. MAGA's whole platform is basically white supremacy grievances.

He definitely stuck a nerve all right. See, when Cyril Ramaphosa signed an expropriation land law, of course, Elon Musk, Boers and Afrikaners thought it was racism against whites. It should come as no surprise that they hate it. Of course, part of it is because of South Africa and the genocide case going on in the ICC.

[travelingthrulife]

14. Yup. And he said out loud the part about white supremacist/GOP fearing the

approach of becoming a minority in this country.

[tornado34jh]

15. That is no surprise, but again, he wasn't wrong

You don't need a telescope to see what the movement is all about. If they are upset by what he said, maybe you shouldn't be doing stuff that is going to get called out on.

[SunSeeker]

12. I'm sure he has nothing to discuss with you either, Marco, so go fuck yourself.

South Africa gets to choose its ambassador, not Trump. When you're ready to talk to Ambassador Rasool, he'll be at the South African embassy.

[Igel]

13. If anybody wants to actually hear/watch what Rasul said ... Here's the link.

https://mistra.org.za/mistra-media/mistra-webinar-implications-of-changes-in-us-administration-for-south-africa-and-africa/

[Kid Berwyn]

16. Micro Rubio has never known integrity.

Certainly doesn't recognize it in others.

[IzzaNuDay]

18. Did Little Marco forget?

His leader, a 34x felon probably can’t enter certain countries.
Well on the way to be the world’s pariah!