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Trump tells African leaders his friends are going to your countries trying to get rich and makes up country of NambiaDuring a luncheon at the United Nations on Wednesday, President Donald Trump reportedly told African leaders that he has so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich.
Africa has tremendous business potential, the president said.
He later referred to the non-existent country of Nambia when discussing health crises on the continent. It is unclear if Trump was referring to Namibia or Zambia. There is no country called Nambia.
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Trump tells African leaders his friends are going to your countries trying to get rich (Original Post)
kpete
Sep 2017
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spanone
(135,891 posts)1. he was reading, he had no clue what it said.
underpants
(182,925 posts)2. Did you mean Zamunda?
Doreen
(11,686 posts)4. Hehehehe
Doreen
(11,686 posts)3. Like the Africans are going to want our country there to take over.
Didn't they finally get the British out and take control of their country back?
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)7. Germans, Dutch, French....
burnbaby
(685 posts)5. his friends have been doing
that when we started outsourcing. I want a job and I guess that is asking too much
DFW
(54,447 posts)6. I guess most of Trump's best friends speak Mandarin
My younger daughter did a spell in Sierra Leone with the U.N. War Crimes Tribunal. She said the place was overrun with Chinese, who were extracting every last ounce of iron ore they could (bribing government officials for rights, low prices and lax pollution controls). They then leave and go on to the next third world country to pillage their natural resources, like the bad guys in Independence Day.
"Nambia" my ass. They must have direct flights to West Dakota.
no_hypocrisy
(46,216 posts)8. Wasn't that concept behind colonization and imperialism?