Watch Trump’s full speech to African leaders

President Trump spoke at a working lunch at the United Nations General Assembly Sept. 20.

[@punchmcduff6446]

Africa is rich in resources,but that wealth never get to the people because Of The corruption Of The political class.

[@earlenel2682]

Bingo! Crooks within working with crooks outside...

[@josephodiase174]

Very plain to see..

[@dicksonmatiko6679]

Punch McDuff You have a point but don’t forget that the largest part of these conflicts continue because of they are being supported by the west in order to continue to take our wealth to the West.

[@tcccn7257]

No. Africa continues to be rapped by Europe because they own the mines in Africa.

[@maadaaraa9344]

Let's not look for a scapegoat. The political class is like the people. I come from one of these countries and I can assure you that it is not only the politicians who are rotten

[@Wxsharpe]

"I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich". Think about that a moment.

[@sechabamotsoane1026]

Man I got pissed at that

[@maliksy7746]

Sounds fishy

[@osaqa]

If his friends go to their country to get rich, its because they are investing their money there..wich is good for the country..now, if that money goes to the people, that´s another conversation.

[@Wxsharpe]

@@osaqa That's just it. Corrupt leaders and ministers run these countries and the wide eyed White men come to further the exploitation. You need to do some reading.

[@osaqa]

@@Wxsharpe What reading do i need? do you understand the difference between rich people and the shadow corrupt government?

[@amankwaabeatriceoseioosei4667]

If our country is OK we will not continue to be running away from our country.

[@tosinojo7310]

speak for yourself some of us are just experts working abroad

[@enegbetagilbert444]

I don't see why we attack this man. He is always frank with his speech hiding nothing in his thought. That is an acumen of a good leader with great vision.

[@ClassWarMatrix]

Yall realize that Trump is a glitch in the matrix right... he is showing the world and the american public how despicable the american empire really is. he doesnt lie about what america is doing like obama and bush and the rest of them did. he keeps the white supremacy real. The established oligarchs dont event want that, dont mistake me, trump doesnt do it for the people, he does it for himself and his ego because he wants to be king. He will bring about the revelations

[@noshadova]

You're a braindead person

[@kamandenamande8057]

Thats why I-am very disappointed ☹️ this time he is congratulating them.for what???does Mafia

[@krisroyce9143]

A hateful leader

[@calikali8811]

Sturm Panzer sure buddy and 2pac is still alive right ?

[@andymac345]

Nambia, that's where the Black Panthers cousin lives.

[@SimbaM2kufu]

Andy Mac 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ivonnewarow4796]

But its a movie lol

[@raedjah6417]

He’s says Gambia

[@o.h.opp.6707]

I believe he says Nambia meaning Namibia. The flag is right behind his left shoulder

[@preacherfish111]

Nambia forever

[@kerneyevans]

Is it jus me or this man never admitted how important africa is to usa's financal growth.. hmmmmm

[@emmanuelabayie3946]

He talked about Africa being self reliance..is that not enough . I don't think u need a white man to tell u it whole history

[@maliksy7746]

Well said

[@Barzini548]

This guy was the best...don't be fooled by propaganda. Such leaders are never given a chance..

[@reggiesimmons6719]

Just words, history tells a different story..

[@enigmatickass2573]

A lot of people are blinded by the facade that is presented to them...

[@maliksy7746]

True, well said

[@ejeteeimohizy7142]

Trump ask you to build your country. ... Africa should unite and build Africa and make it a better place

[@gaeldilamh2572]

ejetee imohizy . Do u have a plan? I will follow you..

[@cherylmellowes6616]

They are trying but the powers that be keeps putting up roadblocks against them and we all know what those roadblocks are .

[@maxwellzulu8182]

How are we going to unite if our brothers from Nigeria are using our sisters as prostitute.

[@maxwellzulu8182]

Most of the Nigerian are not working but they are living a nice life in SA.

[@ClassWarMatrix]

Yall realize that Trump is a glitch in the matrix right... he is showing the world and the american public how despicable the american empire really is. he doesnt lie about what america is doing like obama and bush and the rest of them did. he keeps the white supremacy real. The established oligarchs dont event want that, dont mistake me, trump doesnt do it for the people, he does it for himself and his ego because he wants to be king. He will bring about the revelations

[@dominicknesbitt1152]

Well said, nothing offensive here he congratulates these African countries for their notable economic prosperity

[@vasileia8886]

He is not sick, he is very right we are in shithole because we have all the resources but still no better development, Africa needs more development with the resources we have, if we don't do this then we will remain in the shit hole forever. Trump is honest on this

[@Ahun_Sanneh]

vasil eia We Can't Benefit From Our Own Resources Cuz We Only Have Dumbass Presidents Who Put Whites First As Their Gods, Meaning They Can't Develop On Their Own Without Begging/Bein Slaves Of The Whites. Then The Whites Would Demand/Take More Resources/Billions As A Profit Of Their Output. They Take Back 1000 times Bigger Than They've Given As Charity. "Watering/ Fertilizing A Plant With Poor Nutrients To Harvest It". Wake Up Africa

[@googlinasses1851]

vasil eia America is a shithole too.

[@roenaskates3879]

vasil eia. American and British Whites pay your leaders to keep you in shit hole!

[@TheGmailro]

blaming the whites won't get u anywhere, same old excuse and loop. It's the africans mentality issue which has always been, they are well off by just having their basic needs covered in the short term, no ambition to thrive past this, that's why the whites conquered africa because they were so technologically superior, just like the blacks would have made it if they had the possibility.

[@roenaskates3879]

Petru Tudorache, would the world banks finance Africa or any other black country or continent? They don't finance these countries but finance whites to develop in these countries!

[@Timotheus157]

Priority one: Stop the violence and increase prosperity for everyone.

[@simonmakumbe6481]

That's open truth, let our leaders repent in all sides the way they rule. Nothing to hate this man

[@dildic]

THEY SPEAK SWEET DREAMS AND DOING DEVILISH PLAN BEHIND BACK.

[@ErnestoRodriguez-ln5ik]

Like?

[@jker1041]

@@ErnestoRodriguez-ln5ik like killing people and letting children work in dangerous places in the eastern Congo ?

[@maliksy7746]

True

[@RIDGEMATIC]

But he LITERALLY mentioned that in his speech. That's not something he must do, AFRICA must wake up but he's giving the military support and economic resources to not depend on cabal. What else do you want??

[@smukangu]

We should always give credit where it’s due and this speech was good and very positive!

[@fivegoalseason]

until he steels ur gold and oil lol.. the devil comes with a smooth tongue

[@coppersulphate002]

@@fivegoalseason that was Obama!

[@fivegoalseason]

@@coppersulphate002 let me be more specific any AMERICAN president

[@jennw5052]

@@fivegoalseason Exactly!!! Hmmm wonder why these African leaders said nothing against Putins invasion of Ukraine....hmmmm...scared of being threatened with sanctions on their countries maybe hmmmm

[@deewask1656]

😂

[@Heno411]

This has really increased my view on Trump administration positively, well done Mr. President.

[@Heno411]

Troll FACE! 😂

[@SimbaM2kufu]

To those who don’t know where Nambia is, Nambia is a small African country located between Wakanda and Zamunda. The president of Nambia is Santa Claus.

[@livelikemike]

For this and this alone... You are A freaking 1 on this. Amazing!

[@vb2050]

Their deprived ideology. Hahaaa We all know what he meant. Lol Brilliantly said

[@ernestdamelda6174]

He shouldn't have called we the blacks a Sithole

[@georjackkyembe852]

I have a problem with this speech, all he said is to promote America's agenda in Afrika. Sending people to Afrika!! For what? Are you telling me that Afrika can't solve its own problems without the involvement of America or other European countries, you can't solve Afrikan problems with American solutions but Afrikan solutions..

[@robinhood8302]

Good luck with that....

[@KingofgraceSARA]

I think he was saying, my people are coming too Africa for wealth so why not the people of Africa.

[@orderedsteps4050]

NAMBIA, when you don't read or pronounce well but you are an elected leader.

[@victoryudo1]

Any African from nambia? Raise your hands! Lol Olodo man.

[@rapso3974]

victory udo hi

[@whitephoenixofthecrown8523]

victory udo lol right?

[@johnsteytler3597]

Me

[@johnsteytler3597]

Namibia

[@billdesmet831]

Help USA from NEW YORK to CALIFORNIA.

[@savidavid7649]

Congrats president. For your kind thoughts for African continent,

[@king_of_da_pride9936]

Don’t be a damn fool. When has a white man EVER kept his word.

[@eliteethan]

“Namibia” not “Nambia”

[@ClassWarMatrix]

You realize that Trump is a glitch in the matrix right... he is showing the world and the american public how despicable the american empire really is. he doesnt lie about what america is doing like obama and bush and the rest of them did. he keeps the white supremacy real. The established oligarchs dont event want that, dont mistake me, trump doesnt do it for the people, he does it for himself and his ego because he wants to be king. He will bring about the revelations

[@gf301062]

Zambia

[@whitneychikopa1126]

I was like WTF is Nambia????

[@giftwise7071]

Africa is a mess mostly nigeria, the leaders don't care, they enrich them selves while the citizens go begging for food. as old as Nigeria we don't have good road network, no health care, poor education system, no food, poor power supply despite the citizens are paying heavily for power bill. no employment, no security of life n property only the politician are protected. kidnapping here and there. it just a mess. President Trump and the United Nations should look into it. truly Nigeria is not working we need to be separated.

[@whoreofdragonstone1031]

first of all please tell me the connection you have to Nigeria, and secondly Nigeria is the Richest Country in Africa, but you are right the politicians are corrupted

[@ThomasTT208]

We are too selfish in Africa

[@eyonggrace4903]

You are right

[@ellayoti4086]

No...stupid!

[@Idkkdiidk337]

You are right

[@Idkkdiidk337]

Africa is the best

[@michaelsesay9909]

Yes, please give freedom to those that need it, for peace to rain, thanks

[@Handblue]

Why Africa needs help from them They have gold oil and more things still depending on them

[@fatboiplaysvr3523]

because they obviously don't you idiot america feeds half the world because there economies are shit

[@marinel1200]

blue hand actually not any more because al the blacks stole every thing

[@paulmay68]

blue hand you don't know what to do with you never did

[@negra345]

mclaughlin america feeds half of Africa is BS,america is one shithole, ur people worship guns,money and enjoy ur miserable lives at the expense of minorities and u still think u are superhero?.Americas legacy was built upon,slavery,racism,exploitation and u steal much more frm Africa than u give aid.we aren't so stupid.u are a laughing stock with Trump shitshow now,u ruled by a lunatic.shame on U.

[@issaahmed4895]

shut up racist prisident

[@munyamahoromutabazi1029]

God bless you so much n protects you my President, I hope DRC Congo can have President like you My President

[@worldfootballmemorablegame4478]

Some American people think USA is better than SA but God made countries cus he knew that we were equal.

[@abdinasirismail3371]

I missed this President. I can't stand Sleepyjoe diminish energy

[@blackamericanswishtheywerebraz]

Its same as joe. Usa is trying to enslave africa. Sorry

[@Play-ce5wh]

People continue to focus on the life of this world when we are all going to die. May God guide us all.

[@maliksy7746]

Right

[@emmanuelowiti8217]

Not security for africa,but your aim for africa is the wealth of africa,for example you refuse to move out of congo!!!!.God will judge you.

[@shawnsmith9162]

Solid Ideas. Touchy situations on that continent.

[@maliksy7746]

Western touchy situations

[@sahraahmedkoshin]

Nambia? Lol, he meant Namibia of course! What a president!

[@sandywool]

For once Afrcan leaders must be made to school again , serious

[@tumeloselebogo1762]

One of the leaders of the USA once said Africa is a shity continent, I just can't remember the name of that guy, but all in all this was an amazing speech.

[@ahenkansomuah8689]

Give us prove before you speak such rubbish.

[@vestinemusanabera5327]

I remember too.....

[@ragdianful]

Thank mr president for wonderful speech, we really needs peace in South Sudan & Congo

[@eprahimwesas6892]

You Right. I like you. You’re my favourite president. Please ✌🏻✌🏼✌🏽✌🏾✌🏿✌️

[@foundfortune1389]

Only GOD will help Africa we don't need NOONE else!

[@williamroux9995]

he forgot to mention the anc and the eff

[@janetbotchway3408]

Hmm you forget Africa make your country rich trump

[@1Godsgift777]

First time i seen a grown Chuckee Doll!!😂😂

[@douglassgibson4828]

U have never lied

[@DrLesiaThePreachasDiviNation]

Im Cudjoe Lewis’ great granddaughter & I want Africa Town, AL revived 👸🏽👁👸🏽

[@shyshayagen2733]

Leave Africa alone, leave us alone , we will solve our problem on own

[@francoscioli9078]

NAMBIA! Never heard of a country called Nambia, is that near Namibia or a state in Namibia. Could someone inform me where in Africa is Nambia.

[@eldaleenbotha6434]

Iam seen as invader,but originally my being my roots my “forefathers,forefathers began here before there were tribes.Before here were Higgonote in The Cape of Hope.So,why am i seen as invader when nothing was invaded

[@lehlogonololehlogonolo4500]

Eldaleen Botha 😂😂😂cheif I'm south African please don't start with ur apartheid ideology,u invaded south Africa in 1652 and took our land

[@ishmealnongwana8484]

Long live mr donald j trump👏👏

[@christdiedforoursins8180]

Very interesting, I never heard him speak before.

[@neeuqamilam1170]

christ/messiah died for our sins 🤮

[@RIDGEMATIC]

See?

[@husha6372]

CanSomeone please teach Trump how to pronounce Namibia

[@fransdav5573]

It is just South Africa that showed no progress since 1994.

[@mrmemeking1yearago437]

Frans Dav That's true because the other countries Progressed and got weaker only us got weaker and stayed where we are while other go to war with own people 🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦

[@user-vo8zx1db6m]

It has shown progress! In the wrong direction...

[@mrmemeking1yearago437]

Wild Bore Hey Atleast we don't go to war with our own people like Somalia Nigeria Egypt Has Isis in their ass Anglo Communist Botswana Dirt Poor and so on and us Half Poor Half Rich no war with own people and so on

[@charissemiddleton5344]

evil 22565 STOP! Have a civil conversation with each other, they want us to tear each other down, that's how they succeed. LOVE! CONQUERS ALL.

[@retajordaan9468]

Frans Dav agreed

[@92GreyBlue]

Actually sounds like a president here... but actions speak louder than words.

[@teresahaven9222]

This evidently is not his real feelings.....this is a speech written by a politically correct speech writer....notice the difference. He is actually looking down and reading it.

[@liltech-9]

Teresa Haven wow no it’s like no politician has ever written a speech in their lives and had to read it because they don’t have time to learn it because i don’t know they’re the fucking president

[@hummbug1]

Teresa Haven yes and actually one moment in the beginning he said his thoughts he said "I have lots of freinds trying to get rich in your country! Moron Africans dont need any more white business owners taking resources. Smh

[@johnnybracciole5490]

Thank God Trumpis not a politician!!!.. what u people fuckin retarded??

[@mugerwagideon9589]

Teresa Haven your right

[@colleenmardis2206]

Hate takes a huge toll on your health and mind.

[@petsgrinder5923]

That's all African leaders know... Just keep attending expensive meetings high class shut with nothing to show for it after all the meetings they have attended

[@maliksy7746]

Right and it's pathetic

[@rachael-777]

This is not Trumps words or feelings. This speech was written for him and so unlike his usual blabber.

[@courageunitycompassi]

Trump is always bored when he has to read a speech. He only lights up when he can rant. And he always mentions “friends”. 😂

[@ThePatriotization]

Mr trump I can hear you dont know what is going on in south africa. This is just a one sided speach.

[@cnsmiles]

You mean what “used” to be going on? South Africa is a total “has been” african nation due to your obsession of failed ANC rule!

[@francogallo1043]

Mr Trump the ANC can teach the Democrats how to steal..

[@TheAmazingLucas]

Let's kneel during the national anthem, that'll stop police brutality!

[@charliejeans2413]

Did he really say "ISIS and Allkida" sounds more like a threat.

[@maliksy7746]

ISIS is all over Africa now

[@dorisonesmo8814]

all I can think of this man idea is a new way to take everything of Africa which remained

[@nathanhicks2000]

Most leaders speak from their pre writing script nothing wrong with that.

[@samuelbaidoo6266]

Good speech Trump

[@GinaMazzola]

"Africa has tremendous business potential" he says in then calls us shitholes

[@OpenPolony]

hes still not wrong...?

[@stephyjoyable]

Potential.... Isn't yet realized.

[@matthewcollins2213]

Gina Mazzola it's a shit hole with potential

[@narayanaharyomtatsat4901]

Gina Mazzola so right

[@bartman01021988]

get your facts right.he called seceral nations shitholes.but when criminals cannot be deported back to those countries because there so behind modern standards is he lying when he said shitholes?he isnt is he

[@paulsweazy5606]

Trump was right about Africa am sorry it's just the truth

[@tinypanda2218]

And western countries fund these corruptions.

[@shdndchdjs7408]

I wanna smoke whatever donald trump be smoking cuz damn bro 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@ceeliv202]

Indeed😂😂

[@judymacdonald4145]

South Africa is making BIG progress In Africa

[@Brendenmaximin]

Africa for memes

[@kaymwangi6648]

Nambia 😂😂😂

[@badsave-tv3569]

Agriculture, energy, transportation, health care, travel, and tourism. But why no education 🤔🤔🤔🤔 still tryna keep the original black Africans lack of knowledge 🤬👍🤔🤔👍🤬

[@pieterlastname1276]

Next time some one tells you the whites stole land I am sharing this for those who want to read facts about South Africa. Here is your short history lesson : by D Lötter In the 3000 years since the end of the Stone Age, the indigenous people of Africa could not manage to create an infrastructure, could not mine or produce export, could, in fact not succeed in building anything higher than one storey and could not write down anything as reference for future generations, because they could not manage to master the art of writing. In fact, when the first Europeans arrived on 6 April 1652 it was 1974 years after Ptolemy I built the magnificent library of Alexandria - and in Southern Africa the indigenous people still could do no more than a few rock paintings and a clay pot with patterns on it. Today, this development, this contribution of the descendants of Europe has become a threat to the Black South African. He cannot compare. He has no contribution that can remotely compare to what the white man created and therefore he has to fall back on what primal instinct tells him to do: Destroy that which is a threat to you! It is against this background that the white South African is demonised as a slaver and murderer who stole land. Let us put this in perspective: In the first place: The Europeans who came with Van Riebeeck had no intention to stay at the Cape. We can clearly determine this from the repeated application for transfer to Batavia or Amsterdam made by almost every Company servant. The few men who decided to make this their homeland, did so because they came to love the land. They wanted to develop and grow here. And in the written evidence, left us by the men who did not intend to stay and therefore had no reason to lie, it is written down over and over again that the Europeans settled on uninhabited land. They exchanged land for cattle and money and traded with the nomadic indigenous people. The Company decided to import slaves. I emphasize import, because no indigenous person in this country was ever put into slavery! In actual fact, the slaves who were brought in from Madagascar and Batavia and Ceylon and East Africa were the ancestors of an entirely new group of people: the Coloured nation of South Africa who adopted the customs and culture of the European. Ever wondered why they did not adopt the custom of Africa? Because they were not exposed to it, that is why! Nobody at the Cape ever set eyes on a black person for 130 years before the first Trekboere met the Xhosa in the Valleys of the Amatola around 1770! These slaves also added to the bloodline of the European settlers, as did the French Hugenots of 1688 and the British Settlers of 1820. The White South African was a new nation, born in Africa. This nation called its language, Afrikaans, after Africa. This nation called itself after Africa - Afrikaners. On the first of December 1834 slavery was abolished in the Cape Colony. This is two years before the start of the Great Trek. The white man in South Africa knew nothing of the existence of the Zulu, the Tswana, the Sotho, the Venda...and he was at war with the Xhosa. It is chronologically impossible that indigenous people could be held in slavery, if the so-called slave masters did not even know of their existence before the abolition of slavery. Let us look at the "great" Shaka Zulu and the Zulu nation. Remember that the Europeans landed in South Africa in 1652. Shaka kaSenzaghakohona was born around 1787. He managed to unite, through force and murder and rampage a number of small tribes into the Zulu nation around 1819. Before that year, there WAS no Zulu people. A question of mathematics: The Zulu nation came into existence only 167 years after the arrival of Van Riebeeck. What logic can possibly argue that the Europeans took anything away from the Zulu-people? So when did the black man establish himself in South Africa and how? The answer lies in the Mfecane: Mfecane (Zulu: [m̩fɛˈkǀaːne],[note 1] crushing), also known by the Sesotho name Difaqane (scattering, forced dispersal or forced migration[1]) or Lifaqane, was a period of widespread chaos and warfare among indigenous ethnic communities in southern Africa during the period between 1815 and about 1840. As King Shaka created the militaristic Zulu Kingdom in the territory between the Tugela River and Pongola River, his forces caused a wave of warfare and disruption to sweep to other peoples. This was the prelude of the Mfecane, which spread from there. The movement of peoples caused many tribes to try to dominate those in new territories, leading to widespread warfare; consolidation of other groups, such as the Matabele, the Mfengu and the Makololo; and the creation of states such as the modern Lesotho. Mfecane is used primarily to refer to the period when Mzilikazi, a king of the Matabele, dominated the Transvaal. During his reign, roughly from 1826 to 1836, he ordered widespread killings and devastation to remove all opposition. He reorganised the territory to establish the new Ndebele order. The death toll has never been satisfactorily determined, but the whole region became nearly depopulated. Normal estimates for the death toll range from 1 million to 2 million. The black man established himself in this barren land now known as South Africa a full 174 years AFTER the white man. How dare you then call me a settler when you are nothing more? If I don't belong here, certainly neither do you. Land stolen from the black man? No. The land occupied by the Boer-people was land that nobody lived on, for the pure and simple reason that the original people of South Africa were massacred and wiped out in a racist genocide by the ancestors of the current black population of South Africa. The very same thing that is now repeated with the white man. The white man has a full and legal and historical claim to his part of this country, including land. And the black man who disputes that is welcome to bring evidence of the contrary. Remember, popular liberal myth, propagandistic expressions and loud shouting and burning and looting to hide your own incapability is not evidence. It is barbarism. The popular myth of "the end of colonialism" is a lie also. Colonialism in South Africa ended on 31 May 1961 when the country became a Republic. White minority rule was not colonialism, because the white South African belongs here - you cannot colonise your own country. The entire uproar about white oppression and white guilt and white debt is based, exactly like the concept of the rainbow nation and its Africa-democracy, on one big lie. In Afrikaans, a language of Africa, we say: However swiftly the lie might travel, truth will catch up one day. Black South Africa might as well realise that the time of the lie is running out. Your stereotyping of the white man and apartheid as the cause of everything, cannot hold much longer. You cannot hide rotting meat under gift wrap for eternity. Some time in the very near future you will have to own up and explain how you could hold a small minority of oppressed people responsible for the disaster that you have made of a country which has the potential of being a place of safety, a welcome and hospitable home, to all its children whether they be black, white, coloured on Indian. The black man holds the key to the final destruction of what is left, or the final realisation that we have no other choice but to peacefully co-exist. The black South African can no longer avoid admitting that the destruction of the white South African necessarily means the destruction of everything and everyone left on the southern tip of Africa.

[@maiacarpentieralting8686]

American history has shown how it has took. Ideas as well as people

[@halabitimoty8272]

We blacks should open our brains and minds, from his speech I see lies and deceit.

[@brucelomax3375]

Kevin Myers (born 30 March 1947) is an Irish journalist and writer. He writes for the Irish edition of the Sunday Times, having previously been a columnist for the Irish Independent and a former contributor to The Irish Times, where he wrote the "An Irishman's Diary" opinion column several times weekly. Until 2005, he wrote for the UK Sunday Telegraph. His articles criticise left-wing opinion and the "liberal consensus", sometimes incorporating hyperbole, sarcasm and parody. This essay appeared in The Irish Independent: Somalia is not a humanitarian disaster; it is an evolutionary disaster. The current drought is not the worst in 50 years, as the BBC and all the aid organisations claim. It is nothing compared to the droughts in 1960/61 or 73/74. And there are continuing droughts every 5 years or so. It's just that there are now four times the population; having been kept alive by famine relief, supplied by aid organisations, over the past 50 years. So, of course, the effects of any drought now, is a famine. They cannot even feed themselves in a normal rainfall year. Worst yet, the effects of these droughts, and poor nutrition in the first 3 years of the a child's life, have a lasting effect on the development of the infant brain, so that if they survive, they will never achieve a normal IQ . Consequently, they are selectively breeding a population who cannot be educated, let alone one that is not being educated; a recipe for disaster. We are seeing this impact now, and it can only exacerbate, to the detriment of their neighbours, and their environment as well. This scenario can only end in an even worse disaster; with even worse suffering, for those benighted people, and their descendants. Eventually, some mechanism will intervene, be it war, disease or starvation. So what do we do? Let them starve? What a dilemma for our Judeo/Christian/Islamic Ethos; as well as Hindu/Buddhist morality. And this is beginning to happen in Kenya, Ethiopia and other countries in Asia, like Pakistan. Is this the beginning of the end of civilisation? AFRICA is giving nothing to anyone outside Africa -- apart from AIDS and new diseases. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the Begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us out of Africa, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since the famous Feed The World campaign began in Ethiopia, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 million to 78+ million today. So, why on earth should I do anything to encourage further catastrophic demographic growth in that country? Where is the logic? There is none. To be sure, there are two things saying that logic doesn't count. One is my conscience, and the other is the picture, yet again, of another wide-eyed child, yet again, gazing, yet again, at the camera, which yet again, captures the tragedy of children starving. Sorry. My conscience has toured this territory on foot and financially. Unlike most of you, I have been to Ethiopia; like most of you, I have stumped up the loot to charities to stop starvation there. The wide-eyed boy-child we saved, 20 years or so ago, is now a low IQ, AK 47-bearing moron, siring children whenever the whim takes him and blaming the world because he is uneducated, poor and left behind. There is no doubt a good argument why we should prolong this predatory and dysfunctional economic,social and sexual system but I do not know what it is. There is, on the other hand, every reason not to write a column like this. It will win no friends and will provoke the self-righteous wrath of, well, the self-righteous hand wringing,letter writing wrathful individuals; a species which never fails to contaminate almost every debate in Irish life with its sneers and its moral superiority. It will also probably enrage some of the finest men in Irish life, like John O'Shea, of Goal; and the Finucane brothers, men whom I admire enormously. So be it. But, please, please, you self-righteously wrathful, spare me mention of our own Irish Famine, with this or that lazy analogy. There is no comparison. Within 20 years of the Famine, the Irish population was down by 30%. Over the equivalent period, thanks to western food, the Mercedes 10-wheel truck and the Lockheed Hercules plane, Ethiopia's population has more than doubled. Alas, that wretched country is not alone in its madness. Somewhere, over the rainbow, lies Somalia, another fine land of violent, AK 47-toting, khat-chewing, girl-circumcising, permanently tumescent layabouts and housing pirates of the ocean. Indeed, we now have almost an entire continent of sexually hyperactive, illiterate indigents, with tens of millions of people who only survive because of help from the outside world or allowances by the semi-communist Governments they voted for, money supplied by borrowing it from the World Bank! This dependency has not stimulated political prudence or common sense. Indeed, voodoo idiocy seems to be in the ascendant, with the president of South Africa being a firm believer in the efficacy of a little tap water on the post-coital penis as a sure preventative against AIDS infection. Needless to say, poverty, hunger and societal meltdown have not prevented idiotic wars involving Tigre, Uganda, Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea etcetera. Broad brush-strokes, to be sure. But broad brush-strokes are often the way that history paints its gaudier, if more decisive, chapters. Japan, China, Russia, Korea, Poland, Germany, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in the 20th century have endured worse broad brush-strokes than almost any part of Africa. They are now -- one way or another -- virtually all giving aid to or investing in Africa, whereas Africa, with its vast savannah’s and its lush pastures, is giving almost nothing to anyone, apart from AIDS. Meanwhile, Africa's peoples are outstripping their resources and causing catastrophic ecological degradation. By 2050, the population of Ethiopia will be 177 million; the equivalent of France, Germany and Benelux today, but located on the parched and increasingly Protein-free wastelands of the Great Rift Valley. So, how much sense does it make for us actively to increase the adult population of what is already a vastly over-populated, environmentally devastated and economically dependent country? How much morality is there in saving an Ethiopian child from starvation today, for it to survive to a life of brutal circumcision, poverty, hunger, violence and sexual abuse, resulting in another half-dozen such wide-eyed children, with comparably jolly little lives ahead of them? Of course, it might make you feel better, which is a prime reason for so much charity! But that is not good enough. For self-serving generosity has been one of the curses of Africa. It has sustained political systems which would otherwise have collapsed. It prolonged the Eritrean-Ethiopian war by nearly a decade. It is inspiring Bill Gates' programme to rid the continent of malaria, when, in the almost complete absence of personal self-discipline, that disease is one of the most efficacious forms of population-control now operating. If his programme is successful, tens of millions of children who would otherwise have died in infancy will survive to adulthood, he boasts. Oh good: then what? I know, let them all come here.

[@theanarchoatheist4951]

He is right Uganda has made incredible strides. Because only they kno de wae

[@youngwolf1574]

Mubajje Ibrahim his making fun of you though

[@dionjeremy1711]

Lol

[@kamid1651]

L0gical ATHEIST you are what is wrong with the world

[@ousmanafceesay3997]

Mr president we african we don't need your help you help with your interest

[@marinel1200]

Thank you President trump. I live in south africa and our lives is in danger by setting stuff on fire and murdering.

[@neeuqamilam1170]

Mari Nel so is ours in America by ppl that look like you! Do you want to trade places?

[@mrtanzania8706]

Lol

[@chumizola1847]

Mari Nel i am sorry

[@MrSupervillin]

Mari Nel let me guess? You want trump to self u.s troops to overthrow the black and put your kind back in power so you can shit on them again.

[@Time364]

Hmm

[@MrFoolingyu]

The outlook is NOT bright. The outlook SHOULD BE bright!

[@abem517]

AFRICA IS STILL THE GRAND PRIZE TO THEM!!!

[@undergroundminer3262]

It's like If the Marine Corps were a President !!! Semper Fi sir. Make Africa Great Again

[@nepembedessy3194]

Namibia flag look beautiful

[@modoupen8839]

the problem is France.

[@eldaleenbotha6434]

Well what i can tell you now everyone-next language to lurn fast is Chinese because they want there land that was sold to them😂

[@adamwumbila6422]

I feel is better for you to speak the truth Trump.. You only want to take chance for you own gains and not for Africa's growth.. I wait to see our presidents join hands to remove hypocrites who come in sheep clothens...

[@Bagged..]

🇬🇭🇬🇭

[@johnburns2510]

American Colonialism

[@EasymasterGuru]

At least somebody made sure this clown-in-chief kept strictly to the script on this brief occasion.

[@charleslotara]

There's no country called Nambia in Africa Mr Trump!

[@chikawosu596]

Africa need to work together and forget here mostly in Nigeria most important the banks in Nigeria are the evils we seeing we need love in Nigeria

[@marbachmeier3227]

They can't mine for gold or diamonds without buyers and equipment

[@danielbuhulea117]

The brave man

[@kalondooziuganda8040]

viva trump

[@amosmunezero9958]

Luckily this time has his speech notes infront of him, otherwise I am afraid of what was gonna come out of his ignorant mouth!

[@ngashjr]

he forgot to mension wakanda

[@jasperdurante2484]

We Africans have to start afresh

[@mikes9393]

Is he ever going to look up from his script lol. Clearly he never read that once before this...

[@stephenwaks2599]

Please help us in South African

[@CT2507]

1:15 "American firms have to go, they want to go to Africa" is he stupid? why is he being stupid? yea, send more firms abroad, see what happens with the American economy.

[@fivegoalseason]

we don't want ur firms lol..

[@heleneroodt9225]

No word about South Africa ,,,!!!!!????

[@maxgaseb4093]

nambia really!!! who wrote for him the speech

[@josephinenm7932]

I picked that

[@juliusmaehlich3138]

Max Gaseb, He is American they talk with a different accent and pronunciation. Your grammar is also wrong, so does that mean that you must be critizised.

[@juliusmaehlich3138]

Max Gaseb. Before you throw stones look at your own pathetic grammar of the English language.

[@susanhume7175]

maybe he means Zambia ??

[@jameswest3270]

@@susanhume7175 😂

[@joshuadippa9132]

President Donald J Trump, I love you so dearly Because you are very bold in your discussion and also love us as a African, Because I do believe that if you don't love the continent you couldn't have been making any negative comments about us, Because I do believe that you want us to have a better Africa. Thank you a lot mr. president