[T]he American president doesn’t linger on details ... his new rhetoric just serves as another weapon on hand in one of his many campaigns against insubordinate enemies or friends.
Trump, grandson of a German immigrant, is particularly peeved at an independent South Africa, which was the worst example of a Western supremacist-cum-colonial mindset.
What perhaps remains unresolved, is how long the American electorate will allow Trump to reduce their country into a paranoia state, an empire of appalling tantrums and ragtag diplomacy.