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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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David Smith in Washington

Sinister Trump dims the lights for another White House ambush

Men sit in Oval Office
Trump at the White House with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

We knew he was a bore and boor. Now we have learned that Donald Trump is an honorary Boer.

When he turned his attention to South Africa on Wednesday, it may come as no surprise that the US president – who has been sued for discriminating against Black apartment seekers, called for the death penalty for the Central Park Five, pushed the false claim that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, referred to Haiti and African nations as “shithole countries”, and blamed an air crash on DEI – was rooting for the whites.

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