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.
