Lesotho Reacts After Donald Trump Says Nobody Knows the Country
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Lesotho was surprised by President Donald Trump’s latest take.
After the president shared in his March 4 address to Congress that he had cut $8 million of LGBTQI+ aid to the South African country, remarking that it was a nation “nobody has ever heard of,” Lesotho’s foreign affairs minister fired back.
As Lejone Mpotjoane told the BBC in a March 5 interview, “To my surprise, ‘the country that nobody has heard of’ is the country where the U.S. has a permanent mission.”
Mpotjoane added that it was “shocking” to hear the president “refer to another sovereign state in that manner.”
The foreign affair’s minister of the African country—which has had relations with the United States since the 1960s, per the U.S. Department of State—emphasized that Lesotho is “a member of the UN and of a number of other international bodies,” adding that the U.S. not only has an embassy in the country but also has a number of additional organizations centered in its capital Maseru.
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