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Trump plays video about 'white genocide' for South African president. It didn't go well

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : Trump made it clear to reporters that it was Ramaphosa who called him and asked for the visit.
41% : Additional video was also shown, which Trump said was land filled with graves of white South Africans.
36% : Instead of ending it there to move on to the private portion of the meeting, Trump pushed back, and in a surprise move, asked for the lights to be turned down so Ramaphosa could watch a video that allegedly proves white farmers are being systematically killed.
34% : For more than four awkward minutes, Ramaphosa hardly looked at the screen, choosing to look around the room and at the floor as Trump watched the video intently.
34% : The US fiercely opposed the case under the Biden administration, and maintained that policy under Trump, even expelling South Africa's ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, back in March.
29% : On Wednesday, a reporter asked Trump if he expected South Africa to drop its ICJ case, but there was surprisingly no definitive answer.
26% : Ramaphosa - likely having learned from watching Zelensky and other leaders in that very spot - did not interrupt Trump to argue the point, but waited for him to finish before saying, "People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people.
23% : " When a South African reporter then asked Trump what it would take for him to acknowledge that there is no white genocide, Trump hesitated for a moment before Ramaphosa jumped in and said, "It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends," and he pointed to the two white pro golfers he brought with him, Ernie Els and Retief Goosen.
21% : On Wednesday, Trump said "white South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws", and that he had images of the attacks that proved "genocide" was taking place.

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