President Donald Trump will meet with the president of Rwanda when he visits one of the world’s wealthiest countries, weeks after reports that he railed against immigration from ‘s***hole’ countries in Africa.
Trump will meet with President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, who is chair of the African Union, when he jets to Davos, where billionaires and world leaders are gathering in the Swiss Alps.
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster revealed the meeting to reporters Tuesday, hours after the trip got confirmed with the resolution of the government shutdown.
Kagame has effectively ruled Rwanda for two decades, and has gotten plaudits from Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, although he has also been criticized for human rights abuses.
President Donald Trump will meet with the president of Rwanda when he visits Davos
Rwanda has managed to attain 8 per cent economic growth, but many of it’s citizens still suffer in extreme poverty.
Trump made the comment in an Oval Office meeting with Republicans and Democrats before the shutdown, the Washington Post reported. Homeland Security chair Kirstjen Nielsen, who was there, said she didn’t remember Trump saying the phrase but that he did use ‘tough language.’
Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda addresses the 72nd UN General Assembly on September 20, 2017, at the United Nations in New York
In this handout photo provided by the Israel Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with US President Donald Trump prior to the President’s departure from Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv on May 23, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel
HANDS-ON DIPLOMACY: British Prime Minister Theresa May and U.S. President Donald Trump walk along The Colonnade of the West Wing at The White House on January 27, 2017 in Washington, DC
Trump also meets with British Prime Minister Theresa May and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Gary Cohn, Trump’s chief economic advisor, says the president will hold a dinner with CEOs of European companies in order to ‘share our economic success story and to encourage them to continue to invest in America.’
The dinner follows French President Emmanuel Macron’s effort to woo investors at Versailles in advance of the annual confab.
Cohn said Trump would stress ‘free and open trade,’ then added: ‘But it needs to be fair and reciprocal.’