Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

80% : All weighed in during the Oval Office meeting and seemed to be well-received by Trump.
60% : The video included footage of former South African president Jacob Zuma and firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema singing an apartheid-era struggle song called "Kill the Boer", which means farmer or Afrikaner, as supporters danced. Ramaphosa quietly but firmly pushed back, pointing out that the views expressed in the video are not government policy.
57% : Trump kept returning to the theme during Wednesday's televised meeting.
51% : Trump said: "We have thousands of stories talking about it," then ordered his staff: "Turn the lights down and just put this on.
44% : " Sitting next to Trump before the fireplace, Ramaphosa forced a smile and turned to look at a big TV screen as Trump's South Africa-born billionaire ally Elon Musk, JD Vance, the defence secretary Pete Hegseth and diplomats and journalists from both countries looked on.
38% : Ramaphosa, who had mostly sat expressionless, occasionally craning his neck to look, said he had not seen that before and would like to find out what the location was. Trump then produced a batch of newspaper articles that he said were from the last few days reporting on killings in South Africa.
33% : Trump made the offer despite the US having halted arrivals of asylum seekers from most of the rest of the world as he cracks down on immigration.
31% : There was also footage that Trump claimed showed the graves of more than a thousand white farmers, marked by white crosses.
28% : What began as a convivial meeting at the White House, including lighthearted quips about golf, took a sudden turn when Ramaphosa told Trump there is no genocide against Afrikaners.
24% : But Trump falsely asserted: "You do allow them to take land - and then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them. ...
22% : Trump has long maintained that Afrikaners, a minority descended from mainly Dutch colonists who ruled South Africa during its decades of racial apartheid, are being persecuted.
22% : The US has condemned South Africa's case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza at the international court of justice, slashed aid, announced 31% tariffs and expelled the South Africa ambassador for criticising Trump's Make America great again (Maga) movement.
19% : Trump cut him off and said: "The farmers are not Black.

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