Trump's meeting with South African president spirals into false claims

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : The meeting began with a lighter mood, and Trump warmly greeted Ramaphosa outside the North Portico before they moved into the Oval Office.
67% : "If Trump was interested in [knowing] what was happening in this country, how can he take action and then listen afterward.
66% : " "It's in South Africa," Trump responded.
66% : "I wish you did," Trump said.
51% : "I haven't made up my mind.
45% : Ramaphosa has repeatedly challenged Trump's portrayal of the country's treatment of white farmers, who a 2017 audit found make up seven percent of the population of South Africa, but own three-quarters of the country's land in an enduring vestige of state-sanctioned segregation.
42% : "He called," Trump said.
39% : Ramaphosa stared straight ahead, wiping his face and occasionally moving in his seat and looking over at Trump, who wouldn't make eye contact as a clip played of crowds repeatedly shouting "Kill the Boers," a reference to White farmers descended from colonists who built and led the nation's racist apartheid regime.
36% : "We've had tremendous complaints about Africa, about other countries, too, from people," Trump said, looking at Ramaphosa next to him.
36% : Trump grew irritated during the meeting when a reporter asked about his willingness to accept a $400 million airplane from Qatar, which he wants to retrofit for use as a new Air Force One.
32% : By Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Matt Viser and Lesley Wroughton President Donald Trump pressed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to protect white Afrikaner farmers from violent attacks in an extraordinary Oval Office conversation in which Trump made no mention of the African nation's long-standing epidemic of violence against both white and Black people, nor its violent and discriminatory history of white rule.
30% : Described by the nation's leaders as a tool to help unwind the legacy of apartheid, Trump has said the measure discriminates against white farmers - a contention the South African government has denied.
29% : Still, Trump hinted at potential problems ahead.
27% : While Ramaphosa and several of his deputies sought to agree with Trump that violence is an epidemic concern, they also noted that it is a problem across all of South Africa - not just in rural areas and certainly not just against White people.
27% : The issue has long been a focus of Elon Musk, a South-African born senior adviser to Trump who was in the room Wednesday.
27% : Trump held up news articles in the Oval Office that he suggested were validation of his claims of genocide, but later said he hadn't decided whether what is occurring in South Africa should be declared as such.
20% : Trump amplified false claims that white Afrikaners have been victims of a genocide, even showing video footage of crosses and earthen mounds that he said represented more than a 1,000 grave sites of murdered farmers.
17% : Trump in recent months expelled the South African ambassador from the United States and slashed aid to the country, which also faces other economic hurdles connected to Trump's tariff policies.
10% : " Ramaphosa noted in his opening comments that Trump requested that he bring along some South African sporting legends, although Trump seemed disappointed that the president didn't bring Gary Player, the retired South African golfer.
2% : " But soon Trump turned toward more pointed criticism, and the scene turned into one matched only by the one months ago when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to the White House and was criticized by Trump and Vice President JD Vance.

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