Trump channels a conspiracy theory-loving uncle with bizarre Oval Office ambush

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : We have documentaries, we have news stories," Trump said, addressing his South African counterpart.
46% : As the video came to a close, an aide handed Trump a pile of printed-out articles from tabloid websites.
39% : Remarkably, and against all odds, Ramaphosa was able to salvage the meeting, calmly responding to the most egregious of the claims made by Trump and his videos.
38% : The meeting continued to go off the rails as Trump opined on the non-existent genocide to a room full of South Africans -- Black and white -- who were telling him it was not a thing.
35% : "Elon is from South Africa," Trump said, referring to Elon Musk, who stood just to the side of the president in the Oval Office.
33% : Trump, armed with printouts of tabloid news articles and a montage of video clips, channeling a terminally online and conspiracy theory-loving uncle at an uncomfortable Thanksgiving dinner, launched into a meandering explanation of the current political situation in South Africa to its president.
33% : "This is sort of the opposite of apartheid," Trump said.
31% : "I don't want to get Elon involved," Trump said.
30% : By the end, Trump had been hit with so many contradictory facts from the South African delegation that he looked as though he was almost beginning to question his printouts.
29% : ANALYSIS: Armed with printouts of tabloid news articles and a montage of video clips, Trump launched into a meandering explanation of the current political situation in South Africa to its president Cyril Ramaphosa, Richard Hall writes.
27% : Among them was the country's Minister for Agriculture, John Steenhuisen, a white man and a member of a rival party, who told Trump that South Africa had a rural crime problem, not a white genocide problem.
25% : "I am sorry I don't have a plane to give you," he said when Trump was in the middle of a rant about the media after being questioned on his new Qatari jet.
23% : " Trump has the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world at his command, and could surely have produced a detailed and damning report on the alleged white genocide in South Africa and presented it to the world's press.
12% : Donald Trump himself called it a "genocide," as his administration officials greeted 59 white South Africans as "refugees" at the airport last Monday in D.C.

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