Donald Trump – An ignorant billionaire!

Before 2008, during President Barack Obama’s first win as the president of America, I used to be a big fan of Donald Trump. Had a couple of his books, followed him passionately on twitter, retweet most of the things he tweets, and also study some of his business concepts. Most of this likeness and personal attachment changed during that period, after I dig deeper to understand the kind of man he is and the things or rather ideals that he stand for.

Donald Trump for those of you who do not know the man is for one, a billionaire. He is an “American” business magnate, television personality and an author. He is the chairman and president of “The Trump organization” and the founder of “Trump Entertainment Resorts”. His extravagant lifestyle and role on the NBC reality show – The Apprentice, made him a well-known celebrity who was number 17 on the 2011 FORBES Celebrity 100 list.

That is the portfolio occupied by Mr Donald Trump. A man who acquired over 65% of his wealth from his father’s business empire. Added to that portfolio, is that the man is an “ass”, a “racist” and a “hypocrites”. He fought insanely during Barack Obama’s emergence as the 44^th American president and the first black president in America. He called Obama counts of unprintable names and made some derogatory and condescending remarks about him, his office and then his linage. These are however not my concern right now or rather not the reason I choose to take upon this topic today. My aim is to address Trump’s condescending remark about Africa and Africans.

Obama’s recent visit to a few African countries was for amongst other reasons, to assist the government of the day in strategizing for a better alternative ways of providing better living for their people as well as helping out through the $7 billion pledge, provide sustainable electricity power grids in sub-Saharan Africa. Few hours after he made that statement, Donald Trump went haywire via his twitter page and began making comments like “Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen – corruption is rampant!” he went further with tweets like “Your thoughts on Obama’s trip to Africa? A total waste of taxpayers money! $100 million”, “Obama should concentrate on providing employment for youths in America as well as invest here, not going to waste it in Africa”.

The statement by Donald Trump that every penny of the $7 billion pledged by Obama will be stolen tells me one thing, that Trump may be a billionaire but still very ignorant about other continents most importantly Africa, and needs to do a bit of traveling. The way I see it, he’s just a local champion, until he steps out of America to play in the international community, he has not yet done anything and will possibly remain shallow in his thoughts and actions.

One too many times I have said this, Africa is not one country. It is a “continent” of 54 countries and if that is the case, how dare Trump generalize issues.

In case he doesn’t know, let me break it down for him. Most African countries today is going through a new phase. The governments seeking for new ways to combat corruption; governance increasing and in near future, Africa will be the only continent left to provide succor to others.