WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Marco Rubio declared South Africa’s Ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, persona non grata on Friday (March 14) after his remarks about US President Donald Trump.
Anadolu Ajansi reported Rubio in a post on X, accused Rasool of being a "race-baiting politician" and said the US has "nothing to discuss with him.”
"South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country. Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered persona non grata," Rubio wrote.
Rubio shared a link to a Breitbart article covering remarks Rasool made at a foreign policy seminar earlier Friday, when he said Trump is "mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency" at home and abroad.
The State Department has yet to issue an official statement regarding the decision.
The South African Embassy in Washington, D.C. did not immediately respond to the announcement, according to the report. - Bernama-Anadolu
