Dricus Du Plessis‘ return to South Africa following UFC 312 was unusually quiet.
The final time ‘DDP’ returned to his residence nation following a profitable middleweight title protection over Israel Adesanya, the South African star had followers aplenty ready to greet him.
Nevertheless, that was not the case following his dominant choice victory over Sean Strickland and a few consider it might have one thing to do along with his latest help of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Forward of his rematch with Strickland in Sydney, Australia, Du Plessis posted an image of himself on Instagram carrying a t-shirt that learn “Trump helps Champions.” Du Plessis later defended the choice, including: “He [Trump] stated he needs champions in his staff.”
‘Stillknocks’ additionally praised Trump in the course of the UFC 312 media scrum, a lot to the chagrin of South Africans.
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“I feel he’s an incredible, wonderful president and I’ve had the privilege of assembly him,” Du Plessis stated. “With all the things occurring proper now, change is coming, good adjustments. He’ll maintain a whole lot of nations accountable for all the things. Clearly, being a champion, he stated he needs champions in his staff and he stated it on X. Huge shout-out to fellow South African Elon Musk for additionally doing the fitting factor. Like I stated, Trump prefers champions.”
South Africans shred Dricus Du Plessis for supporting Trump
Contemplating Trump’s disparaging remarks concerning racial points in South Africa, lots of the nation’s inhabitants had been lower than enthused with Du Plessis’ choice to help the POTUS.
“As somebody who was a fan and supporter of @dricusduplessis, I’m dissatisfied,” one person wrote on X. “You endorse Trump attacking your nation primarily based on misinformation and propaganda. Everyone knows alot of issues are rotten within the nation, nevertheless, the issues Trump is accusing us of in the intervening time are only a lie. Cmon man.”
“Dricus du Plessis bending the knee to Trump and Elon is embarrassing,” one other added. “For an athlete who constructed his model on nationwide delight and representing South Africa, this transfer is extremely divisive.”
“Allow us to be trustworthy with one factor right here, Dricus du Plessis is just not representing South Africans, he’s representing the racist treasonous group Afriforum & its supporters, that’s the reason he’s an Elon Musk and Trump reward singer, whereas spreading the ‘white genocide’ misinformation,” a 3rd wrote.
“We’re all dissatisfied contemplating the help we gave this man,” a fourth added.
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