'Into the Mouth of Trump Hell'? South African President Says White House Meeting Wasn't So Dramatic

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58% : And he also said the South African delegation had received souvenirs to mark their visit to the White House, and he and Trump had swapped gifts.
45% : Ramaphosa's spokesperson said that the video, the newspaper clippings of farm murders that Trump produced, and the overall confrontation in the Oval Office made for "an orchestrated show for the cameras," and the real business was the closed-door meeting afterwards.
42% : " "I honestly don't understand why Ramaphosa is actually in the United States when Trump has made it very clear how he feels about South Africa," said college student Dumisani Mnisi in Johannesburg.
32% : Ramaphosa sought out the meeting with Trump in an attempt to correct what he said were mischaracterizations of South Africa by the U.S. -- and to negotiate critical new trade deals.
28% : He said he thought he had persuaded Trump to attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa in November after the Trump administration said it would boycott.
27% : But after being confronted by Trump with baseless allegations that there are widespread killings of white farmers in South Africa -- and made to watch a video of a fringe South African politician repeating a chant referring to the killing of white farmers -- Ramaphosa seemed to think the Oval Office meeting wasn't that dramatic.
20% : Many South Africans didn't want him to go to the headquarters of an administration that has made serious and false allegations against their country, including that Ramaphosa's government is allowing white farmers to be routinely killed in what Trump has repeatedly called a "genocide.

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