Trump first congratulated Africa on being a place where his friends can get rich, and then he invented an imaginary African country because he doesn’t know that there is no such place as Nambia.
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Trump: "Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich" https://t.co/UrQCwG8HuU
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Trump said, “Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich. I congratulate you. They’re spending a lot of money. But it does — it has a tremendous business potential and representing huge amounts of different markets. And for American firms it’s really become a place that they have to go — that they want to go.”
Trump also invented a fake African country:
Trump, at a lunch with African leaders, refers to the non-existent country of "Nambia." pic.twitter.com/N8megnC1Xi
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Trump said, “But we cannot have prosperity if we’re not healthy. We will continue our partnership on critical health initiatives. Uganda has made incredible strides in the battle against HIV/AIDS. In Guinea and Nigeria, you fought a horrifying Ebola outbreak. Nambia’s health system is increasingly self-sufficient. My Secretary of Health and Human Services will be traveling to Africa to promote our Global Health Security Agenda.”
The White House transcript reveals that Trump meant Namibia, but the point is that this president doesn’t know that Nambia isn’t a country in Africa. To him, non-existant Nambia and Namibia are the same things.
The world has seen this behavior before. When Donald Trump is asked to exert any energy or do more than one thing a day, he can’t handle it. The President has no stamina and appears to lose it when he is asked to exert himself beyond tweeting, watching Fox News, golfing, making some phone calls, and having people come into his office to tell him things.
Trump also managed to tell the historically exploited continent of Africa that it was great that his white friends go there to get rich.
Donald Trump is out of it and can’t handle the presidency. Every time he speaks on the world stage the global power of the United States shrinks a little more.
Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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