Former South Africa diplomat: Racism in Trump administration "self-evident"

South Africa’s former ambassador to the United States says it is self-evident that there is racism within the Trump administration.

Ebrahim Rasool was declared unwelcome in the US after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him a "race-baiting politician who hates America". It followed a statement by the ambassador that President Trump was “mobilising a supremacism” and trying to "project white victimhood as a dog whistle" as the white population faced becoming a minority in the US.

Speaking to Newshour's James Menendez, Mr Rasool doubled down on his criticism of the Trump administration and rejected allegations that the white Afrikaner community faced discrimination in South Africa.

(Picture: South Africa's former ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, speaks upon his arrival at Cape Town International Airport on March 23, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Esa Alexander)