Why Trump is singling out South Africa and accusing it of being...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : The order criticized the Black-led South African government on multiple fronts, saying it is pursuing anti-white policies at home and supporting "bad actors" in the world like the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.
59% : A white minority group in South Africa has been a central focus for Trump.
40% : Trump has offered Afrikaner farmers refugee status in the U.S. and a fast track to citizenship, but groups representing them say they want to stay in South Africa. Trump´s sanctioning of South Africa also cited the country´s case at the United Nations´ top court accusing U.S. ally Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
34% : " Trump had already issued an executive order last month cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies.
25% : But U.S.-South Africa ties were strained even before Trump.
20% : Trump has repeated that, questioning South Africa´s motives and accusing it of an anti-American foreign policy that supports Hamas, Iran, China and Russia.
19% : Trump falsely accused the South African government of a rights violation against white Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law.

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