“Such Good English!”: Trump Accidentally Discovers Liberia Exists, Immediately Insults It

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In yet another installment of "Trump Meets Geography (and Loses)," former President Donald J. Trump stunned absolutely no one when he praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking checks notes English.

“Such good English,” Trump marveled, eyes twinkling with the innocence of a man who thinks Liberia is one of the characters from Les Misérables.
“Such beautiful English.”
“Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where? In Liberia?”

Yes, Donald. In Liberia. A country founded by freed American slaves in the 1800s. A country where English is the official language. A country that’s been speaking English longer than you’ve been bankrupting casinos.

The exchange took place during a White House meeting with five West African leaders — which, knowing Trump, he probably referred to as the Wakanda Caucus.

“ESL Africa” Wasn’t On the Agenda

While President Boakai responded with the polite murmuring typically reserved for when your racist uncle gives a toast at Thanksgiving, the people of Liberia were not as restrained.

“He was condescending,” said Foday Massaquio, chairman of an opposition party in Liberia.
Translation: The man talks like a colonizer with a head injury.

This slapstick diplomacy came just weeks after the Trump administration gutted U.S. foreign aid to Liberia — slicing off support that accounted for 2.6% of the country’s GDP. So, instead of basic funding for healthcare or infrastructure, Liberians got… a gold star for diction.

“Boakai didn’t fly to D.C. for an English-speaking competition,” said one businessman in Monrovia.
And yet here we are.

A Crash Course in Liberian History (For Trump’s Benefit)

Let’s review:

• Liberia’s flag is basically the U.S. flag on Ozempic.
• Its government is modeled after America’s.
• It’s been speaking English since the 1800s.
• Their school buses even look like they rolled off a Brooklyn lot.

But sure, Don. Let’s act like Boakai just picked up English on a Spirit Airlines layover in Atlanta.

Trump’s White Savior Olympics

Trump’s surprise that an African president could string together coherent sentences says the quiet part out loud — that he still thinks Africa is one big safari where everyone speaks “tribal.”

“Where did you learn English?”
Next up: Trump asks the Canadian Prime Minister if he invented maple syrup.

Even Trump’s defenders struggled to spin this one, claiming his comments were just his “style” and a reflection of admiration. Right. And calling Mexicans “rapists” was just a warm welcome to the neighborhood.

Final Thought: Liberia Speaks English. Trump Barely Does.

Boakai came to discuss trade. He left with a compliment so awkward it could’ve been scripted by Michael Scott.

One can only hope Trump’s next diplomatic moment doesn’t include asking the French president if he was “born knowing how to croissant.”