There has been a lot of talk recently about money the United States spends on foreign aid and whether it is worth the cost. Mostly it has revolved around certain issues of liberal culture warring, but one country, South Africa, has stood out as a specific country that Elon Musk and President Donald Trump could target on a more holistic basis. This led MSNBC’s Joy Reid to freak out on The ReidOut that Trump has been “red-pilled” into accepting a “far-right movement” populated by those such as the “neo-Nazi mass murderer who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting.”
Reid came out of a commercial lamenting, “We are now experiencing the repercussions of Donald Trump adopting the worldview of Elon Musk. On Sunday, Trump threatened to sanction South Africa, vowing to cut all funding over what he called a human rights violation. That so-called violation seems to be about a new law in South Africa that gives the government powers, in some instances, to expropriate land from people who accumulated it during apartheid, to the detriment of indigenous South Africans.”
According to Reid, “The law aims to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist Apartheid era, but Musk has cast the law as a threat to South Africa's white minority. The billionaire, who grew up as a privileged and wealthy white South African during Apartheid, often accuses the post-Apartheid government of anti-white racism.”
Even if one assumes, for the sake of discussion, that Reid’s view is correct, it is still legitimate to ask why South Africa receives U.S. aid. South Africa calls itself a non-aligned country, but over the past 15 months it has appointed itself Hamas’s lawyer at the International Court of Justice as it throws one blood libel after another at Israel and conducted naval drills with Russia and China.
Nevertheless, Reid declared Musk’s “false ethno-nationalist claims are likely why Trump is promising to punish South Africa over the land law. In fact, the official X/Twitter page of the presidency of the Republic of South Africa announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa even spoke to Musk this week on, quote, ‘issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa.’”
She continued, “There's evidence that Donald Trump has been red-pilled into a far-right movement that is inspired by white dispossession in Africa, the American white supremacist, neo-Nazi mass murderer who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting wore a jacket with a flag of Apartheid-era South Africa.”
Joy Reid actually supports South Africa’s anti-Semitic foreign policy, so if a more tortured connection between Musk and Trump’s foreign aid policy makes the latter like a neo-Nazi mass shooter, what does that make her?
Here is a transcript for the February 5 show:
MSNBC The ReidOut
2/5/2025
7:47 PM ET
JOY REID: We are now experiencing the repercussions of Donald Trump adopting the worldview of Elon Musk. On Sunday, Trump threatened to sanction South Africa, vowing to cut all funding over what he called a human rights violation. That so-called violation seems to be about a new law in South Africa that gives the government powers, in some instances, to expropriate land from people who accumulated it during apartheid, to the detriment of indigenous South Africans.
The law aims to address some of the wrongs of South Africa's racist Apartheid era, but Musk has cast the law as a threat to South Africa's white minority. The billionaire, who grew up as a privileged and wealthy white South African during Apartheid, often accuses the post-Apartheid government of anti-white racism.
His false ethno-nationalist claims are likely why Trump is promising to punish South Africa over the land law. In fact, the official X/Twitter page of the presidency of the Republic of South Africa announced that President Cyril Ramaphosa even spoke to Musk this week on, quote, “issues of misinformation and distortions about South Africa.”
There's evidence that Donald Trump has been red-pilled into a far-right movement that is inspired by white dispossession in Africa, the American white supremacist, neo-Nazi mass murderer who perpetrated the Charleston church shooting wore a jacket with a flag of Apartheid-era South Africa.
