Malema: Trump a danger to global stability

The EFF leader Julius Malema has warned that US President Donald Trump and his policies are a danger to the world and should be removed from power. 

Malema was addressing the party’s third Central Command Team (CCT) meeting in Bela Bela, Limpopo on Saturday. 

Malema is already on Trump's radar, after the US leader showed visuals of the firebrand chanting “kill the boer” as he sought to substantiate false claims that there was a "white genocide" in South Africa during President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the Oval Office in May.

Trump also hosted five leaders from Africa last month-Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal.

Malema said at the previous CCT meeting, the EFF had been positioned as an enemy of global imperialism and warned that fighting domestic and global capital could lead to political or personal destruction, starting with disinformation and escalating to invasion or assassination.

Malema said in order to effect change to the world, Trump’s reign as the US President must end.

He said: “It is not only for us as the left and socialists to whom Trump is a threat, but even to the capitalist system itself because he is using its logic in an illiterate manner - as a result he will destroy capitalism inadvertently but he will kill any and all possibilities of socialist economic order as well.

‘Our economies are unequal due to historical dominance by the West of the global economy, and as a result trade barriers have been eased so that our markets and economies can grow - imposing tariffs on the infant economies of the global south is merely a method by Trump to create a global economy that depends solely on America, and as a result Trump poses a threat to the stability and existence of a global economy,’’ Malema said.

He added that leaders such as Brazil’s President Lula da Silva, criticised Trump’s diplomacy, Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev warned of retaliation, Iran struck Israel, and China’s President Xi Jinping inspired a US-free future. 

“While the world resists imperialism, African leaders humiliate themselves at the Oval Office. The EFF must force Africa to cut ties,” Malema added.