Trump plans to cut US funding to South Africa over contentious land...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : "South Africa, like the United States of America and other countries, has always had expropriation laws that balance the need for public usage of land and the protection of rights of property owners.
25% : Trump has previously been critical of South Africa's government, writing in a social media post during his first term in 2018 that land was being seized from white farms and there was "large scale killing of farmers."
24% : In comments to reporters, Trump said Sunday "they´re taking away land, they´re confiscating land and actually they´re doing things that are perhaps far worse than that.
24% : " Trump didn't say exactly which policy he was referring to, or which people were being mistreated.
20% : Trump said in the same message - which was roundly criticized in South Africa as making false claims - that he was ordering then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to investigate.
13% : Trump made the pledge to stop all future funding on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, writing: "South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY." In South Africa, Trump wrote, a "massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see.

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