President Donald Trump had a luncheon with leaders of various nations in Africa at the United Nations on Wednesday. During the luncheon, Trump discussed the many business opportunities on the continent of Africa. The Times Live of South Africa reported the luncheon this way:
US President Donald Trump hailed Africa’s business potential Wednesday, telling several leaders of African nations he has many friends going there to “get rich.”
At a lunch with the leaders amid the UN General Assembly, Trump mused about the vast continent’s opportunities and challenges.
“Africa has tremendous business potential,” he said. “I have so many friends going to your countries, trying to get rich. I congratulate you. They’re spending a lot of money,” he said.
Notice the phrases that Times Live used “hailed Africa’s business potential” and “vast continent’s opportunities and challenges”. The reporting from the South African newspaper sounds proud. People are going to spend and make money in our country, yippee!
The racist liberals of the dishonest media here in the United States saw predatory attempts at colonization and the sordid topic of filthy money. Chris Cillizza of CNN must have had his smelling salts in his hand when he wrote:
At lunch, he attended a gathering of African leaders and made a few remarks.
And almost immediately he said this:
“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. It has tremendous business potential, representing huge amounts of different markets. … It’s really become a place they have to go, that they want to go.”
So…..
As I’ve pointed out a lot of late, there is a tendency to become inoculated to odd or controversial things Trump says because, well, he says them a lot. But, it’s important to take note of moments — like this one — in which Trump says something that, coming out of the mouth of any previous modern president would have caused a medium-to-large international controversy.
My how those phrases can have a different connotation in the hands of an experienced, liberal pajama boy. Did I say “colonization”. Chris Cillizza must have Googled it because:
What Trump is congratulating the assembled African leaders on feels a whole lot like the colonialism of the continent by European powers in the latter part of the 19th century. As the New York Public Library notes in its “Africana Age” exhibit:
“By 1900 much of Africa had been colonized by seven European powers — Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal and Italy. After the conquest of African decentralized and centralized states, the European powers set about establishing colonial state systems. The colonial state was the machinery of administrative domination established to facilitate effective control and exploitation of the colonized societies. Partly as a result of their origins in military conquest and partly because of the racist ideology of the imperialist enterprise, the colonial states were authoritarian, bureaucratic systems.”
Cillizza continues the blockquote on colonization but, you get the drift. He does allow that Trump may have been simply congratulating them on their economic success, but Chris Cillizza knows that Donald Trump, deep in his “evil” heart sees himself at the “Great White Boss Man” just waiting to colonize Africa and strip her of her wealth. Gee, Chris, project much?
Over at MSNBC, Mika Brzezinski was overacting like a high school Drama Queen.
The Daily Caller reported it:
Brzezinski couldn’t handle the soundbite and asked Scarborough to stop talking. “Oh my God. Stop, stop,” she said.
There was nothing about Mika’s performance that was professional or, and I use this word with caution because it is MSNBC, journalistic. Mika, you almost make me ashamed to be a woman. Almost. I said almost. I haven’t acted that dramatic about anything since I was thirteen. Grow up, Mika.
You cannot trust the dishonest media about anything to do with Donald Trump. Hold him accountable for his faults, and we all have a lot of them, but tell the truth. It says a great deal about the dishonest media when you have to read a article from a South African media organization to get some balance.
‘Progressives’ need victims of evil Western Civilization so they can pretend to be compassionate; when in fact they don’t actually give a damn. If any of their victim classes should prosper using the principles of EWC their narrative collapses and their preening and posturing becomes hypocritical.
Exactly.
TW
It has tremendous business potential, representing huge amounts of different markets.
After the conquest of African decentralized and centralized states, the European powers set about establishing colonial state systems
These things are not the same. Not even remotely.
*smdh*
GWB- it’s not even a nuance, is it?
TW
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