22:31 EST 02 Feb 2025, updated 07:22 EST 03 Feb 2025
President Donald Trump threatened to cut all future funding to South Africa in an effort to punish the government for allowing what he called ‘human rights violations.’
In the first month of his second presidential term, Trump has set to work imposing tariffs on foreign nations, sparking retaliatory measures in return from both Mexico and Canada.
Undeterred, Trump shared to Truth Social on Sunday that he’s now set his sights on South Africa – in an apparent reaction to a new law over land expropriation.
‘South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,’ he wrote.
‘It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention.
‘A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see. The United States won’t stand for it, we will act.
‘Also, I will be cutting off all future …