Trump ambushes South Africa president with video of attacks on white people

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Trump declared.
46% : Aside from the issue of white South Africans, whom Trump has welcomed to the U.S. as supposed refugees, Ramaphosa clearly wanted to discuss trade.
42% : After starting with a chummy chat about golf, Trump shocked Ramaphosa and his delegation by screening a video in the Oval Office that he claimed showed attacks on white South Africans and funerals of murdered white farmers.
39% : "We're proud South Africans and we want to ... see our country flourish," Els said. South Africans and some independent analysts warned of the danger of Ramaphosa walking into an Oval Office ambush at the hands of Trump like the one recently endured by Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
38% : "The farmers are white," Trump retorted.
30% : Trump also cut all U.S. assistance to South Africa.
29% : Trump slapped what he called reciprocal tariffs on South Africa along with the rest of the world, but suspended them for 90 days as negotiations progress.
26% : Ramaphosa pushed for the high-stakes meeting with Trump in an attempt to salvage ties with the United States, which have hit their lowest point since the end of the apartheid system of racial segregation in 1994.
23% : He told Trump that the majority of white farmers want to stay in South Africa and resolve racial issues.
20% : President Trump ambushed South African president Cyril Ramaphosa Wednesday with a long video he says supports unfounded claims of persecution against minority whites who previously ruled under the racist apartheid system.
20% : " "This is sort of the opposite of apartheid," Trump claimed, calling the attacks evidence of "genocide" against whites.

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