Donald Trump complimented on Wednesday, at the White House, the president of Liberia, Joseph Boakai, for his level of English, when it is the official language of this West African country. “Thank you, and in such a good English, so beautiful,” said the American president, when he received five African presidents to discuss commercial issues, in particular mineral exploitation.
“Where did you learn to talk to it so beautiful?” Where have you studied? In Liberia? ”Held Donald Trump. Joseph Boakai first had a little embarrassed laugh before simply answering “yes sir” to the last question. “Well it’s very interesting, it’s a beautiful Englishman. I have people around this table which are far from speaking it as well as you, ”concluded the American president.
Liberia is the oldest republic in sub-Saharan Africa, founded in 1822 under the impetus of the United States for freed black slaves. English is its official and mostly used language across the country. President since 2024, Joseph Boakai studied at the University of Liberia, in the capital Monrovia, as well as the State University of Kansas, in the center of the United States.
