Uganda’s president says he loves President Donald Trump and that he should be praised for not mincing words.
“I love Trump because he tells Africans frankly,” President Yoweri Museveni said Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. ambassador apologized for Trump’s recent reference to African nations as “(expletive removed) countries.”
“I don’t know whether he was misquoted or whatever. But he talks to Africans frankly,” Museveni said. “In the world, you cannot survive if you are weak.”
The Ugandan leader was addressing members of the regional East African Legislative Assembly.
Several African nations have expressed shock and condemnation at Trump’s remark. He has denied using that language while others present says he did.
Museveni, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, also called Trump an honest man during his State of the Nation address on Jan 1.
Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac met Uganda’s speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, and described Trump’s controversial remark as “obviously quite disturbing and upsetting.”
(AP)
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If Africa is as bad as Trump says (probably not, and usually the problem is the local government), then Trump’s comments are a strong argument for giving more foreign aid. It is equivalent of looking at a beggar and saying “you are pathetic, you are hopelessly poor”.
akuperma, I don’t think that is necessarily the answer. It depends if the upper echelons of government are corrupt and would take the money for themselves rather than spending it in a way that benefits their country’s people.
If the country’s people are suffering they need to take a hard look at where their leaders are distributing their revenues and if those revenues are not being redistributed to benefit the people, that country needs to make major changes before it should earn the right to receive money from abroad. Just look at Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, etc.