KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda’s president says he loves President Donald Trump and that he should be praised for not mincing words.
“I love Trump because he tells Africans frankly,” President Yoweri Museveni said Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. ambassador apologized for Trump’s recent reference to African nations as “shithole countries.”
“I don’t know whether he was misquoted or whatever. But he talks to Africans frankly,” Museveni said. “In the world, you cannot survive if you are weak.”
The Ugandan leader was addressing members of the regional East African Legislative Assembly.
Several African nations have expressed shock and condemnation at Trump’s remark. He has denied using that language while others present says he did.
Museveni, one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders, also called Trump an honest man during his State of the Nation address on Jan 1.
Earlier on Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador Deborah Malac met Uganda’s speaker of parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, and described Trump’s controversial remark as “obviously quite disturbing and upsetting.”
Of course Museveni, who’s held power since '86, is pro-Trump. Given how homophobic he is, I bet he’d love President Pence even more.
“But Idi Amin is still my Dada,” he added.
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so here’s ‘44’ frankly addressing African leaders about staying past their ‘sell by date’.
Seeing how Museveni respects people who speak frankly, I just want to say ‘fuck Museveni and the horse that he rode on’, but seeing how that ‘horse’ is made in China, i just hope that he and his horse have a long ‘marriage’.
especially if Museveni is still the dam.
I lived in southern Africa during the last year of Apartheid and the first year of the Nelson Mandela DNC government, the in-your-face racism in South Africa was an eye opener for an American accustomed to the mostly veiled racism expressed in the US at the time. Many of us Peace Corps volunteers actually appreciated the frankness of the racists, because that way you knew who you were dealing with.
This period in the US feels much like that now. A big difference seems to be that the white South African racists pretty much accepted who they were and didn’t give a shit what those who did not agree with them thought or said about them, here it seems that calling out a person’s racism/homophobia is what is upsetting so many who are getting called out, they want to be free to be racist, they just don’t want anyone recognizing it for what it is and saying so, all in the guise of being too PC for those calling them out.