United States President Donald Trump has compared Kenya to the failed state of Somalia.
Trump, in an address to the U.S.’s top military officials on Tuesday, told his country’s military that it’s not their job to protect foreign nations such as Kenya and Somalia.
Trump said for decades the US military has been used to police failed states like Kenya and Somalia and stressed it was time to turn the armed forces inwards against an unspecified “enemy from within.”
“Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within,” the US president told a gathering of over 800 military generals at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.
“After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help we’re defending the borders of our country,” Trump added.
Trump’s sentiments have already irked Kenyans, who have accused President William Ruto of making Kenya a failed state like Somalia.
Kenya has had decades-long military cooperation with the US, and only last year did the Joe Biden Administration designate Kenya as a major non-NATO ally. Kenya also hosts a US military base in Manda Bay, Lamu County.
Since Kenya’s independence from Britain in 1963, the United States has developed a defense cooperation framework to advance its national interests with Kenyan security as partners, the US State Department states on its website.
Here is a video of Donald Trump comparing Kenya to the failed state of Somalia.
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