Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office
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For a second time, President Trump hijacked an Oval Office meeting with a foreign leader to turn it into a reality show. This time, Trump hurled false claims of "white genocide" at South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa.
An image Donald Trump held up in the Oval Office on Wednesday as evidence of violence against white South African farmers actually showed people in an entirely different country. In a wild Oval Office meeting,
South Africa’s President and his team—including a considerable cohort of white South Africans, notably Afrikaners—were hosted at the Oval Office by President Trump, immediately following what was hailed as a remarkably successful diplomatic mission to Arab countries,
The other story I want to talk about before we wind up our conversation here is President Trump's meeting in the Oval Office with South Africa's president. In what many people described as an ambush,
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Ramaphosa stared straight ahead, wiping his face and occasionally moving in his seat and looking over at Trump, who wouldn’t make eye contact as a clip played of crowds repeatedly shouting “Kill the Boers,” a reference to White farmers descended from colonists who built and led the nation’s racist apartheid regime, according to The Post.
Donald Trump’s haranguing of Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval Office wasn’t wholly unexpected — the visiting leader had plenty of forewarning of the US president’s animosity toward his administration.