Ethiopia: Trump's Dangerous Rhetoric Toward Ethiopia Is Indicative of a Larger Problem

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Last week President Trump invited reporters to listen in on a call intended to celebrate the normalization of relations between Sudan and Israel, a diplomatic achievement that comes with more than a few complications. During the course of the conversation with the Sudanese and Israeli prime ministers, the president of the United States took it upon himself to casually issue a bellicose threat to Ethiopia on behalf of Egypt and its president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, a man Trump has referred to as "my favorite dictator."

Seemingly miffed by the failure of his administration's clumsy effort to broker a deal on the use of Nile waters now that Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam has become a reality, Trump posited that Egypt "will end up blowing up the dam. . . . they'll blow up that dam. And they have to do something.. . . They should have stopped it long before it was started." He also reiterated that he is holding up U.S. assistance to Ethiopia to pressure its government to agree to his administration's preferred deal.

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