Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe has asked people to give the US President Donald Trump time.
Mugabe in excerpts of an interview by state media that will be broadcasted to mark his 93rd birthday on Tuesday said Trump’s Mexico wall “appears quite nasty” but the US president “might come up with better policies”.
“I don’t know whether the construction of the wall between America and Mexico is feasible… it appears quite nasty,” the Sunday Mail quoted Mugabe.
Mugabe was largely unwilling to criticize Trump, though he did admit the US president was “radical”.
“I was surprised by his election but I didn’t like Madam Clinton either,” he said.
Mugabe also said it was “arrogant” of former US president Barack Obama to extend sanctions on Zimbabwe before he left office in January.
The Zimbabwean President who has been in power since his country’s independence in 1980 said he was ready to work with Trump’s Republican administration adding that he has no problem with Trump’s idea of American nationalism.
