Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has described outgoing US President, Donald Trump as a “racist,” “xenophobe” and “monster.”
The Nobel Laureate famously tore his green card to shreds after Donald Trump was elected the 45th President of the United States in 2016, now he says he has forgiven Americans for electing Trump.
In an interview with Arise TV, the playwright said America has now redeemed itself by voting Trump out.
“I feel honoured to be associated with the democratic forces of the United States for correcting the unbelievable error that they committed four years ago,” Soyinka says.
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On ripping his green card to shreds four years ago, Soyinka says: “I consider myself back in that community from which I dissociated myself four years ago and I am very glad to be back but I am not renewing my green card, it is not necessary. I go in and out as a visiting alien and that is good enough for me.”
Soyinka said he was very much concerned with the US elections in 2016 because the country has a huge Nigerian population, adding that America’s history would not be complete without blacks.
He further revealed he tried to warn Nigerians resident in the U.S of the impending dangers of a Trump Presidency. When his advice was ignored, Soyinka said he had to rip his green card to shreds.
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“The complacency was very painful and I said if you people are so careless as to let this racist, this monster, this xenophobic aberrant, this disrespect of the female gender, this serial bankrupt, this man who called your own society a shithole country, if you are so careless as to let him become the next president, I am moving out,” he revealed.
Soyinka went further to reveal he was happy when an alleged Trump inspired mob attacked the U.S Congress, because Americans had come to take democracy for granted.
“So, you can imagine what I have felt over the last few weeks, the siege on the Capitol. In a way it was rather heart-warming for the Americans themselves to feel that what they have been fighting for is not really a given in their society and they had to confront it in a brutal, unbelievable way and they came out of it in flying colours.
“It is not over not by any means, I don’t say that for a single moment but it has been a lesson for us in this continent and we should be grateful that it did happen.
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“I am sorry of course about the loss of life, I regret the disruption of normal life but now we are placed on the same playing level, that we are all fighting for the same virtue in human conduct, the same system we all believe in that you cannot take it for granted, not anymore and for us here in Nigeria, it has been, I hope, it was been a heart-warming occasion,” Soyinka adds.
See the video of the interview below:
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Democrat Joe Biden was sworn-in as the 46th President of the United States on January 20, 2021.
Lol… Baba is pained. But one thing you can notice here is the privilege he has. Anyway, he’s worked his a-s out
Well, not exactly news. We all saw it.
What of Buhari sir? Didn’t you campaign for him??
I think we can all agree with Prof. Wole Soyinka
I pity Trump, I hope he change his ways. Many people are against him.