It’s Time for President Trump to Appoint a Special Envoy to The Afrikaners!
Guest post by Stefano Forte, President of New York Young Republicans Club
U.S. foreign policy has too often prioritized globalist interests over principled ones. A second Trump administration offers the chance to realign America’s moral compass on the global landscape, and there’s no better place to start than with South Africa’s beleaguered Afrikaner minority.
For decades, the Afrikaners – descendants of Dutch settlers – have faced escalating violence, discrimination, and land expropriation threats under successive and genocidal ANC governments. Despite their contributions to South Africa’s infrastructure, agriculture, and economy, they are increasingly treated as political scapegoats. Farm attacks continue at alarming rates. Land expropriation without compensation remains a policy debate. Yet the world stays silent.
Only President Trump famously stood up for the Afrikaners on the world stage when he confronted President Cyril Ramaphopsa – and invariably shocked the world when he instructed White House staff to “Turn the lights down” in order to display a video montage of South African government officials calling for the death of Afrikaners. President Ramaphopsa’s reaction was the subject of weeks of memes, and shortly following their meeting President Trump granted refugee status to the Afrikaners in an Executive Order.