WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era — a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country’s white minority.

The president ordered that all foreign assistance to South Africa be halted and said his administration would prioritize the resettling of white, “Afrikaner refugees” into the United States.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday formalizing his announcement earlier this week that he’ll freeze assistance to South Africa for a law aiming to address some of the wrongs of South Africa’s racist apartheid era — a law the White House says amounts to discrimination against the country’s white minority.

Trump also announced alongside the Japanese prime minister that Nippon Steel was dropping its $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. steel.

"We love Japan!" Trump said as he greeted Ishiba and the two shook hands. Trump later told reporters at they sat together in the Oval Office that the two countries would work together to get U.S. trade deficit with Japan down to "even.

President Donald Trump said he wants the US trade deficit with Japan eliminated during a meeting with Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba that saw the visiting Japanese leader highlight new potential investments by some of his country’s automotive giants.