Mashaba suggests Donald Trump is better than Cyril Ramaphosa? Haibo!
Image: Twitter
A vote lost for the Democratic Alliance.
That was the response of one South African on Monday to City of Johannesburg Mayor Herman Mashaba’s comparison of US president Donald Trump to President Cyril Ramaphosa on Twitter.
Mashaba shared a picture listing Trump’s “success” alongside Ramaphosa’s “failure”.
“This is revolting. Are you publicly declaring your support for Trump? Another DA vote lost‚” Chris Uitzinger tweeted.
Hein de Kock called Mashaba’s comparison “despicable and disgusting”.
“Despicable and disgusting that Trump is now the role model of the DA. This is 100 times worse than Helen Zille's colonialism tweet!"
Samantha Zilesnick noted how fond Trump and Mashaba are of tweeting.
“@Our_DA I am appalled that you could make this comparison. I honestly think that the DA & Mr Trump should have their phones taken away from them.”
https://twitter.com/SamanthaZiles/status/1028902981335429120_Justin Pearce refuted the claim that there were no violent demonstrations under Trump’s reign as listed in the picture Mashaba tweeted.
“‘Zero violent demonstrations’ under Trump. Just a neo-Nazi killing a peaceful anti-racism demonstrator with a car.”