CHARMAIN NAIDOO: Between Malema, Trump and a hard place
'I feel like I’m living through a scene from Alice in Wonderland with crazy people shouting “Off with their heads” and throwing Mad Hatter tea parties'
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Trump arrived late for the G-7 meet and left early. He changed his mind on a whim, withdrawing his support for an agreed to G-7 Communique – on Twitter!
He insulted his predecessors (particularly President Barak Obama) blaming them for selling out America with “ridiculous” tariff deals… It was bonkers.
You know things are questionable when a crazy dictator who will not hesitate to have a soldier executed for being out of step at a military parade seems sane and reasonable when compared to the leader of the Free World.
It feels like we’re living through a dystopian nightmare… either that or we’ve been invaded by aliens trying to colonise our world by driving us crazy first.
Business Day ran a small story on Page 4 of Thursday’s paper, no big headline, in the middle of the page. You might have missed it if you were skimming the page. I don’t blame the chief sub for placing the story in an in-between space. Its rhetoric we’ve heard before, bombastic posturing that EFF leader Julius Malema spouts carelessly. The headline read: 'Julius Malema warns of war if land issue not resolved'. The man who leads the Red Army, interviewed on a Turkish made documentary, promised revolution if the land was not returned to black people. He wants war.On the opposite page, a Reuters’ story – under the headline North Korea “has great potential” – told how US President Donald Trump believed he had saved the world from a nuclear war. Trump crowed on Twitter: “Everybody can now feel much safer than the day I took office.” This claim from Trump followed a historic meeting between him and Korean leader, Chairman Kim Jong Un – the dictator who has starved and murdered people, inc...
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