What Next | Trump’s South Africa Fixation
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🗓️ 12 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:32.6 | In an administration that has spent its first month signing one mystifying executive order after another. |
| 0:42.6 | The order Donald Trump signed last week concerning South Africa stands out. |
| 0:49.4 | Now, US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to cut financial assistance to South Africa. |
| 0:54.9 | This order had a couple of parts. |
| 0:57.6 | One was a funding cut that no one is sure will actually happen. |
| 1:01.2 | But then, the really surprising thing. |
| 1:04.6 | Yes, the executive order does the astonishing thing of giving political asylum to South Africa's white minority Afrikaner population at a time |
| 1:14.1 | when actually political asylum in the United States been cut off to just about everybody else. |
| 1:19.1 | Chris McGreel writes for the Guardian U.S., but he used to live in Johannesburg, report there. |
| 1:25.0 | He was as shocked by this order as I was. But he says, maybe neither of us should |
| 1:30.8 | have been. We've got an exclusive investigation for you tonight. Donald Trump has been |
| 1:35.3 | worried about whites in South Africa since his first administration, when he caught a segment on Tucker |
| 1:40.9 | Carlson's show. The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, has begun, and you may have seen this in the |
| 1:46.9 | press, seizing land from his own citizens without compensation because they are the wrong |
| 1:52.0 | skin color. |
| 1:53.4 | After tuning in, Trump tweeted at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he should look into |
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