Trump confronts South African leader with baseless claims of the targeted killing of white farmers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "The president is a truly respected man in many, many circles," Trump said of the South African president at the start of the Oval Office meeting.
68% : The order criticized the South African government on multiple fronts, saying it is pursuing anti-white policies at home and supporting "bad actors" in the world like the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.
63% : The U.S. president has launched a series of accusations at South Africa's Black-led government, claiming it is seizing land from white farmers, enforcing anti-white policies and pursuing an anti-American foreign policy.
59% : He added, "that is not government policy" and "our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.
54% : " Ramaphosa said it was time to "recalibrate" the relationship, and went out of his way to thank Trump for welcoming him to the White House for the talks.
48% : Trump even dimmed the lights of the Oval Office to play a video of a far-left politician chanting a song that includes the lyrics "kill the farmer."
47% : El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump recibe al presidente sudafricano Cyril Ramaphosa en la Casa Blanca en Washington el 21 de mayo del 2025.
44% : "People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," Trump said.
44% : It can, but it would be bound by affirmative action laws in the communications sector that require foreign companies to allow 30% of their South African subsidiaries to be owned by shareholders who are Black or from other racial groups disadvantaged under apartheid.
38% : "We are completely opposed to that," Ramaphosa said of the behavior alleged by Trump in their exchange.
32% : " Trump was unmoved.
26% : Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Trump remains ready to "reset" relations with South Africa, but noted that the administration's concerns about South African policies cut even deeper then the concerns about white farmers.
24% : Trump issued an executive order in February cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies.
23% : " Trump had already cut all U.S. assistance to South Africa and welcomed several dozen white South African farmers to the U.S. as refugees as he pressed the case that a "genocide" is underway in the country.
21% : With the deep differences, Ramaphosa appeared to be taking steps to avoid the sort of contentious engagement that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy experienced during his late February Oval Office visit, when the Ukrainian leader found himself being berated by Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
20% : Trump has falsely accused the South African government of a rights violation against white Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law.

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