Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that South Africa’s ambassador to the United States “is no longer welcome” in the country.
Rubio, in a post on X, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician” who hates President Donald Trump and declared him “persona non grata.” He didn’t give further reasoning.
The State Department did not have additional details, and it was unclear whether the ambassador was even in the U.S. at the time the decision was made. Rubio posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of 7 foreign ministers in Quebec.
It is highly unusual for the U.S. to expel a foreign ambassador, although lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status.
At the height of U.S.-Russia diplomatic expulsions during the Cold War and then again over Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, allegations of interference in the 2016 election and the Skripal poisoning case in Britain, neither Washington nor Moscow saw fit to expel the respective ambassadors.
Posted by John3262005
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Gee I wonder why.
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There’s a lot of stuff to be mad about right now, but this is nuts, right? Expelling ambassadors is rare and serious. When even is the last time the US did so?
Champagne bottles are popping in Moscow and Beijing right now. If they have any left on hand, that is, beause it’s been an incedible month for them
Yeah, it’s really President Musk at the wheel huh
Such a bitch behavior.