Trump ambushes South African president in tense Oval Office meeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : He explained the videos of opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called "kill the boer" - which means Afrikaner - did not represent government 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.
52% : Ramaphosa has even enlisted the help of two famous South African golfers -- Ernie Els, who knows Trump, and Retief Goosen -- and has brought them along to the Oval Office meeting.
48% : 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 ...
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 Zelenskyy, Ralo said: "I hope it doesn't happen and I know that Ramaphosa is a great strategist and he's got backbone.
42% : " Another cafegoer, Ernest Motsi, a 29-year-old fashion designer, told NPR that Ramaphosa should try to "find common ground" with Trump if he could, but if not, "We are a very resilient people.
39% : JOHANNESBURG -- South African President Cyril Ramaphosa walked into an ambush when he met President Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
25% : Trump repeated his false claims of a 'white genocide' in South Africa and then ordered the lights dimmed to play videos he said supported his allegation.
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.
21% : Ramaophosa's Minister of Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, who is white, also tried to explain the facts for Trump.
14% : Ramaphosa had wanted to use the meeting to set Trump straight regarding race relations in South Africa -- Trump has repeated a right-wing conspiracy theory that there is a "white genocide" happening in the country -- and his government's policies.

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