Trump seizes on videos of a fringe South African politician as...

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : He said that if Trump listened to "the voices of South Africans," he would better understand the situation.
55% : "That is not government policy," Ramaphosa protested.
36% : " Trump seems to be relying on representations from certain wealthy white South Africans, including his close adviser, Elon Musk, who was at Wednesday's meeting and has repeatedly posted clips of Malema singing an old anti-apartheid song with the lyrics "kill the Boer" and "shoot the Boer" on his X account.
35% : (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) The Oval Office video ended with an aerial shot of a line of white crosses along a road that Trump claimed showed burial sites for white farmers killed in South Africa.
30% : The video gained new life earlier this year and has been posted by Musk. Ramaphosa seemed baffled by the video, turning to Trump as it was being shown before saying, "I´d like to know where that is, because this I´ve never seen.
20% : Why is there no coverage by the legacy media?" When a reporter asked Trump for his view on whether a genocide is underway in South Africa, he said, "I haven´t made up my mind.

*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.