The United States is expelling the South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, over comments he made about Trump and his political movement, the State Department said.

“South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X. “Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS.”

A State Department spokesperson said that “we made the embassy aware that Ambassador Rasool has been found unacceptable by the United States to be a representative of his country” and that “he must depart by March 21.”

In his post on X, Rubio linked to a Breitbart article detailing the ambassador’s remarks to the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection in Johannesburg analyzing the best approach to dealing with the Trump administration and its own approach to South Africa.

During the discussion, Rasool, who was an anti-apartheid activist, attributed some of the MAGA movement’s hard immigration policies to fears about changes in U.S. demographics.

“We see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white,” he said. “And that the possibility of a majority of minorities is looming on the horizon.”

He added: “That needs to be factored in, so that we understand some of the things that we think are instinctive, nativist, racist things. I think that there’s data that, for example, would support that, that would go to this wall being built, the deportation movement.”

The State Department spokesperson also criticized the South African government’s “aggressive positions” toward the United States and its allies, including accusing Israel of genocide in the International Court of Justice.

Rubio boycotted the G20 ministerial in Johannesburg last month, accusing South Africa of doing “very bad things” and saying the forum would be used to promote “DEI and climate change.”

The South African Embassy did not immediately respond to a request for further comment.