Trump hosts Ramaphosa for talks as South African leader looks to...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : Ramaphosa was greeted by Trump as he arrived at the White House shortly after noon for a lunch and Oval Office talks with Trump.
68% : The order criticized the South African government on multiple fronts, saying it is pursuing anti-white policies at home and supporting "bad actors" in the world like the Palestinian militant group Hamas and Iran.
65% : He has launched a series of accusations at South Africa´s Black-led government, including that it is seizing land from white farmers, enforcing anti-white policies and pursuing an anti-American foreign policy.
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.
33% : The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal planning, said Trump also was likely to raise South African race-based barriers to trade and the need to "stop scaring off investors.
28% : Trump has cut all U.S. assistance to South Africa and welcomed several dozen white South African farmers to the U.S. as refugees.
26% : Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday said Trump remains ready to "reset" relations with South Africa, but noted that the administration's concerns about South African policies cut even deeper then the concerns about white farmers.
24% : Trump issued an executive order in February cutting all funding to South Africa over some of its domestic and foreign policies.
21% : President Donald Trump is hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for White House talks Wednesday at a moment when relations between the two countries are at a nadir, with Trump laying into South African officials on widely rejected charges of allowing a "genocide" against minority white farmers.
21% : With the deep differences, Ramaphosa appeared to be taking steps to avoid the sort of contentious engagement that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy experienced during his late February Oval Office visit, when the Ukrainian leader found himself being berated by Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
20% : " Trump falsely accused the South African government of a rights violation against white Afrikaner farmers by seizing their land through a new expropriation law.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.