In an exclusive interview with Firstpost, former South African Ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool shared his perspective on Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other high-profile South Africans’ influence on the Donald Trump administration.
US President Donald Trump’s billionaire advisor, Elon Musk, claims he has “done enough” after four months of the second term of the Republican leader at the White House. Musk is in effect scaling down his involvement in the Trump White House. Yet he still wields incredible power in the White House, claims the South African ambassador the US recently declared a persona non grata and expelled.
While reacting to the influence of Tesla CEO Elon Musk on the US President Donald Trump’s administration, former South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, averred that it is impossible to get into the White House without having a word with Musk regarding Starlink. The ambassador made the statement in an exclusive interview with Firstpost’s Bhagyasree Sengupta.
Rasool was introduced into the midst of the current diplomatic spat between the US and South Africa after he was deported from Washington, DC, for asserting that Trump is “mobilising a supremism ” and attempting to project “white victimhood as a dog whistle”.
The Trump government has been alleging South Africa of perpetrating genocide on White farmers in the nation. Not only this but Trump and Musk also criticized the country’s new land law, previously referred to as the Expropriation Act 13 of 2024. The legislation permits the government to expropriate land, including property and infrastructure, in the public interest or for a public purpose.
