US president appeared surprised by his counterpart’s ‘beautiful English’, despite it being Liberia’s national language.
Liberians are expressing confusion and anger after United States President Donald Trump praised the English skills of their country’s President Joseph Boakai.
“Such good English,” Trump said to Boakai at the White House on Wednesday, with visible surprise. “Such beautiful English.”
English has been the West African nation’s official language since the 1800s. But Trump did not stop there.
“Where did you learn to speak so beautifully?” he continued, as Boakai murmured a response. “Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia?”
