Trump confronts South African leader with baseless claims of the systematic killing of white farmers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : He even told Trump that he's been working on his golf game, seeming to angle for an invitation to the links with the president.
59% : He added, "that is not government policy" and "our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.
54% : Ramaphosa brought Trump a massive book about South Africa's golf courses.
48% : Trump even dimmed the lights of the Oval Office to play a video of a far-left politician chanting a song that includes the lyrics "kill the farmer."
47% : " Trump kicked off the meeting by describing the South African president as a "truly respected man in many, many circles."
44% : "People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety," Trump said.
44% : It can, but it would be bound by affirmative action laws in the communications sector that require foreign companies to allow 30% of their South African subsidiaries to be owned by shareholders who are Black or from other racial groups disadvantaged under apartheid.
39% : Trump appeared prepared to confront Ramaphosa at the start of the meeting while journalists were present.
38% : "We are completely opposed to that," Ramaphosa said of the behavior alleged by Trump in their exchange.
36% : Following the contentious exchange in front of the cameras, Trump hosted Ramaphosa for lunch and further talks.
32% : " Trump was unmoved.
26% : At one point, Ramaphosa called on Zingiswa Losi, the president of a group of South African trade unions, who told Trump it is true that South Africa is a "violent nation for a number of reasons."
24% : Trump issued an executive order in February cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies.
23% : " Trump had already cut all U.S. assistance to South Africa and welcomed several dozen white South African farmers to the U.S. as refugees as he pressed the case that a "genocide" is underway in the country.
20% : South Africa has also angered Trump over its move to bring charges at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
20% : Ramaphosa came into the meeting looking to avoid the sort of contentious engagement that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy experienced during his February Oval Office visit, when the Ukrainian leader found himself being berated by Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
11% : Trump has falsely accused the South African government of rights violations against white Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law.

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