Mandela travelled on Trump’s plane in 1990: Who paid for it?
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Donald Trump chartered a 727 for Nelson Mandela’s trip to the US after he was released from prison. But it wasn’t a gift
In the last few weeks before Election Day, podcaster and Fox News contributor George “Tyrus” Murdoch tried to show voters a philanthropic side of former President Donald Trump.
Nelson Mandela was “trying to come to the United States. The US government was not helping him. No one was helping him,” Murdoch said in an interview with Trump posted October 18 on X. “You chartered a 727 plane for their entire trip. … Why is it hard for you to talk about the things you’ve done?”
Mandela, who died in 2013, was an anti-apartheid activist who spent 27 years in prison before becoming South Africa’s first Black president in 1994.
Trump thanked Murdoch for bringing up the story.
“I love doing it. I don’t need praise for it. We all like a certain level of praise, but I just like helping people,” Trump said. “I help a lot of people, and I enjoy doing it, and I never talk about it. It’s nice that you bring it up. I also think it’s not a narrative that the press likes talking about for me.”
