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Trump and Ghazouani: "Humiliation beyond humiliation"
During a mini-summit between US President Donald Trump and five African leaders at the White House, a diplomatic moment turned into a confusing and potentially explosive scene.
Trump interrupted Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani while he was speaking, saying, "Maybe we should speed things up a little bit... Just tell us your name and your country."
This was not the only intervention of its kind; Trump addressed the president of Guinea-Bissau with the same request, asking his Liberian counterpart, "Where did you learn English?" Expressing his amazement at his fluency in the language, despite English being the official language of his country.
Trump's comments sparked a storm of reactions and quickly spread across social media.
Many Mauritanian and Arab voices expressed their anger at what they described as a public insult to the head of a sovereign state.
Reine Sebaa said the scene looked like a summons to a teacher, writing: "During the summit at the White House today, US President Trump interrupted the President of Mauritania during his speech, urging him and the African leaders present to speed up their speeches and limit themselves to mentioning their names and countries, like students in class. Humiliation beyond humiliation."
On the other hand, others chose to express their anger with sarcasm, some of whom held the Mauritanian president responsible for this position, believing that he had begun talking about his country and its resources as if they were a commodity he was selling in a market. For example, Warda mocked the way the speech was directed at Trump, writing: “Good for him! Let him learn! Because he is feeling self-conscious! When Trump gave him the floor, he began to list Mauritania’s resources as if he were in a market selling his goods! That is not how camels behave.”
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