Martina Navratilova takes dig at Donald Trump supporting farmer dejected by immigration: "Hope is eternal"

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has rebuked a dairy farmer who voted for Donald Trump, despite being dependent on immigrant workers to run their farm. The US President-elect has vowed to conduct a mass deportation of undocumented immigrants when he takes charge next month.

Navratilova was reacting to a report posted by the X account 'Aes', which suggested that a farmer who had voted for Trump had unwittingly "obliterated" the President-elect.

Senior CNN Correspondent Kyung Lah had interacted with South Dakota Dairy Farmer Greg Moes, who claimed that if Trump fulfills his pre-election promise of deporting undocumented migrants from South Dakota, "we will not have food."

"Within two days, we will not have food. Nobody will be filling the shelves, nobody will be producing the food. If we once have to shut down and be gone, its never coming back," he said.

Lah responded by remarking that Moes seemed to have a lot of faith that Trump would not do what he had promised.

"That's pretty much what I am thinking," the farmer said. "We have trust in our officials that we put in place."

The interaction left Navratilova wondering which Trump policies the farmer actually supports.

"Hope is eternal. Yet he still voted for Trump. So which policies that Trump espouses does he agree with, I wonder?," Martina Navratilova wrote.

Notably, Trump won 63.4% of the votes in South Dakota in the recently-held election, pocketing the three electoral votes. Kristi Noem, a key Trump ally, who served as the Governor of South Dakota, has been tapped by the US President-elect to serve as his secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.

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What Martina Navratilova thinks of Donald Trump

Martina Navratilova has been extremely critical of Donald Trump - Source: Getty

Martina Navratilova is known for expressing her political opinions on social media. The tennis legend has expressed staunch opposition to US President-elect Donald Trump's policies and endorsed Democrat party candidate Kamala Harris in the lead-up to this year's presidential election.

The 18-time Grand Slam singles champion has also criticized Trump's picks for his soon-to-be-formed cabinet.

In October, Navratilova, 78, explained why she was opposing Trump in a lengthy post on social media.

"I lived in a totalitarian authoritarian country growing up and I will not vote for that now or ever. trump is not pro women- rap*st and assaulter- he is against all things trans. A big difference. I support trans people but not male bodies in women’s sex based spaces. Simple."

Originally from Czechoslovakia, Navratilova emigrated to the US in 1975 after she asked for political asylum. She was eventually granted American citizenship in 1981. Navratilova has described Donald Trump's victory in last month's US election as "gutting."