Trump to address white refugee tensions in meeting with South African president

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : This time around, Trump has a loyal Cabinet plus a top South African ally in Elon Musk.
55% : " Both leaders pride themselves on deal-making, with Trump leaning on his business background and Ramaphosa being a veteran of labor union negotiations.
54% : After a week of meetings with Middle Eastern leaders and a two-hour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump will greet South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to discuss the country's Expropriation Act, which allows for the seizure of farm land without compensation if the government determines that doing so is "just and equitable and in the public interest.
50% : " Little concrete action emerged at the time, but things changed when Trump got back into office.
40% : I think President Ramaphosa will try to get to a point of commonality and understanding with President Trump.
31% : The South African government wants to redistribute land in an attempt to right past wrongs, which has caused accusations of racial discrimination from Trump and his allies.
31% : "I don't care about their race, their color, their height, their weight -- I don't care about anything," Trump added.
30% : One is that Trump has tried to ban most refugee admissions, making the South African farmers a striking exception.
24% : When Ramaphosa launched a defense of the Expropriation Act on X, Musk replied with, "Why do you have openly racist ownership laws?" Trump characterized the situation as "a genocide that's taking place" during a press conference earlier this month, though the White House used softer language in a later statement.
21% : Trump was first alerted to the issue by a Tucker Carlson segment on Fox News in 2018, posting afterward that then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo would "closely study the South Africa land and farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.

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