South Africa's president heads to the White House. Can he charm Trump?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : Will Trump listen this time?
55% : Trump cut aid to the country in February, his top officials have snubbed G20 events South Africa is hosting this year and the U.S. expelled South Africa's ambassador.
49% : Earlier this year, the South African leader tried to charm Trump by offering his fellow avid-golfer a turn on the green at the G20 summit in Johannesburg in November.
46% : Meanwhile, Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, who is white and is part of the South African delegation, said he would be focusing on "securing trade relations...
44% : " Another cafe-goer, Ernest Motsi, a 29-year-old fashion designer, told NPR that Ramaphosa should try "find common ground" with Trump if he could, but if not "we are a very resilient people, whatever backlash we'll get from the U.S., we will survive."
43% : In fact, she said, "the whole world is absolutely horrified by what's happening in America -- from civil rights to women's rights." Asked what Ramaphosa should tell Trump, Siya Ralo, a 42-year-old Black barista, was blunt, saying: "to stay away from South African affairs." Asked if he's concerned Ramaphosa could be given the same treatment as Zelenskky, Ralo said "I hope it doesn't happen and I know that Ramaphposa is a great strategist and he's got backbone.
40% : JOHANNESBURG -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to meet Donald Trump at the White House today, in an attempt to reset relations between the two countries after the U.S. president's continuous attacks on his government.
23% : "We're the only country on the continent where the colonizers came to stay and we have never driven them out of our country," he pointed out, after Trump repeated a right-wing conspiracy theory that there is a "genocide" of whites happening in South Africa.
13% : Ramaphosa wants to use the meeting to set Trump straight regarding race relations in South Africa -- Trump has repeated a rightwing conspiracy theory that there is a "white genocide" happening in the country -- and his government's policies.

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