Trump shocks South African leader with 'genocide' evidence at meeting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : And in many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy.
40% : Trump directed staff to play a video, which included footage of Julian Malema, the leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters party, in which Malema repeatedly exhorts followers at a rally.to "kill the farmer" and "kill the Boer." After the video was finished, Ramaphosa told Trump that Malema, while a member of his country's parliament, doesn't wield any authority and isn't part of the government.
40% : Trump has repeatedly cited the land expropriation law as he has compared efforts by the South African government to combat racial inequalities from apartheid to anti-white discrimination, and South African officials have accused the administration of using claims from white Afrikaners to undermine the country's genocide case against Israel now before the International Court of Justice. White Afrikaners, descendants of Europeans who arrived in the country centuries ago, claim to have been denied jobs and become targets of violence for their race -- claims that exploded with new legislation regulating property expropriation.
33% : When Trump was asked last week by reporters why the Afrikaners were given priority refugee status over other victims fleeing war or famine in Africa.
27% : The meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa, which was arranged at the request of the South African government, comes after months of tensions between Washington and Pretoria over a controversial law permitting expropriation of land without compensation in some limited circumstances.
26% : Citing that misinformation, Trump announced in February he was cutting off funding to South Africa -- most of which goes to efforts to combat HIV/AIDS -- because the government was "confiscating land" and "treating certain classes of people very badly."
17% : A meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa which the South African leader said was intended to "reset" the relationship between both governments after months of tensions appeared to go off the rails when Trump confronted Ramaphosa with inflammatory videos and news articles which he alleged to be evidence of "genocide" against white South Africans.

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