Trump Makes South African President Watch Video Evidence of Threats to White Farmers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : Businessman Johann Rupert pointed out that murder victims were both white and black, but added that South Africa had rejected American help in the past because of self-defeating anti-American ideology.
59% : Trump then countered by calling for the video to be played.
50% : Ramaphosa said that Trump should hear directly from South Africans, and pointed to three white South Africans that he had brought along with him, including golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, and Minister of Agriculture John Steenhuisen, the leader of the Democratic Alliance, an opposition party that now serves alongside Ramaphosa's African National Congress (ANC) in a government of national unity (GNU).
41% : The discussion then took a thoughtful tone, as Trump called on Ernie Els to make a statement.
34% : Ramaphosa and the journalists had to sit through its duration, and Ramaphosa could not respond except by asking Trump for the location of the memorial.
34% : Trump noted that those parties were large enough to fill large stadiums with their supporters, and asked why Julius Malema in particular, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), had not been arrested.
28% : Trump was noncommittal when asked whether he would attend the G20 summit in South Africa in November; on whether he expected South Africa to drop its case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and on what compromises, in particular, he expected South Africa to make.
18% : A journalist from NBC came in for criticism by Trump when he tried to interject questions about the jet donated by Qatar to the U.S. Air Force for use as Air Force One into the discussion about South Africa.
15% : President Donald Trump's meeting Wednesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa began cordially -- but when Ramaphosa protested against claims of "genocide," Trump turned on a video.

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