Rubio Says South Africa Envoy Is ‘Persona Non Grata,’ Fueling Feud

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said South Africa’s ambassador to the US “is no longer welcome” in the country after the top envoy made comments about President Donald Trump, escalating a running feud between Washington and Pretoria.

Rubio made the announcement in a post on X, linking to a Breitbart News article on a lengthy conversation that Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool had with a think-tank in Johannesburg. Rasool said that Trump and his Make America Great Again supporters are effectively a “supremacist” movement projecting “white victimhood.”