He asked for a moment, as if the South African president had avoided a trap.
For weeks before the visit of the White House of Cyril Ramafosa, Maga World promotes unjustified allegations of a hidden “white genocide” in the country. Donald Trump himself called it a “genocide” as his administration staff welcomed 59 white South Africans as “refugees” at the airport last Monday in DC
So, Ramafosa came prepared. He brought with him two of the President’s favorite golfers and a giant golf book. His opening remarks were a tour of diplomacy and the meeting was on the way to avoid the doomed fate of Volodimir Zelenski in February.
Then the voice from the back of the room caused chaos.
“What will it take you to be convinced that there is no white genocide in South Africa?” He was calling a reporter with a South African accent.
What followed was perhaps one of the most vigilant demonstrations of whites in living memory.
Trump, armed with printouts of tabloid news articles and installation of videos, channeling an incurable online and conspiracy theory, who loves uncle for an uncomfortable grateful dinner, launches in Meander an explanation of the current political situation in South Africa of his president.
Tesla CEO and Trump’s friend, South Africa -born Elon Musk, stood among the press members during the meeting (Getty Images)
“We have thousands of stories that talk about it. We have documentaries, we have news stories,” Trump said, addressing his South African counterpart.
“Reduce the lights,” he added as the eyes of the South African delegation expanded with horror.
You can move away from a tough uncle when he tries to force you to watch videos on YouTube for who really Make 9/11. It is more difficult when the difficult uncle is the most powerful person on the planet and the world press shoots you.
The lights of the oval cabinet were really darkened and Ramafosa was forced to watch a series of videos outside the context, seemingly calculated by an employee of Trump’s administration to show the “true” truth about what is happening in his country.
The video was not, as promised, a documentary. Instead, the videos consisted largely of opposition and extremist political figures who make ignition statements calling for the murder of Africa.
In another dimension, second President Joe Biden sits in Pretoria, forced to watch Kathy Griffin’s upholding hours.
President Donald Trump meets with South Africa President Cyril Ramafosa in the White House Oval Office (Reuters)
Ramafos kept his coolness, even if he looked annoyed. He tried to intervene, but was rejected by a Trump, who also adds a comment from time to time.
“It’s very bad now. These are funeral sites here. Funeral objects of over 1000 white farmers,” he said. The South African contingent seemed stunned, which makes sense, because instead of being serious places for killed farmers, the crosses with crosses were actually part of a protest to stop violence.
When the video is over, an assistant handed Trump a pile of printed articles from tabloid websites.
“Look, these are articles in the last few days,” he said, drilling through them.
“The death of people, death, death, death, terrible, death,” he continued.
“This family was deleted.”
Trump has the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world at his command and could certainly present a detailed and damn report on the alleged white genocide in South Africa and presented it to the world press.
Instead, print out looked more like the Facebook issue of someone who was in danger of being in the FBI monitoring list.
The meeting continued to get off the rails, as Trump appeared on the non-existent genocide to a room full of South Africans-black-white-who told him that this was not something.
“It’s like the opposite of apartheid,” Trump said.
He even invited the opinions of the South African golfers that Ramafosa had brought with him, Ernie Els and Ratif Goosen, who remained diplomatic.
It is remarkable that even against all the chances, Ramafosa managed to save the meeting, calmly in response to the most relentless claims made by Trump and his videos.
“In South Africa, we have a multi -party democracy that allows people to express themselves,” he said, explaining that none of the people in the video were members of his government. “Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.”
Explaining that there is no evidence that white people are specifically targeted in South Africa, but that farmers of all races are victims of violent domestic invasions would take a little longer.
South Africa Police It shows that 225 people were killed on farms in South Africa between April 2020 to March 2024 – but about half of these victims were current or ex -workers living in farms who tend to be black. About 50 were farmers, which are usually white.
By the end, Trump was hit with so many conflicting facts from the South African delegation that he looked as if he were almost beginning to question his prints. Or that, or he was bored and wanted to return to his other favorite activity: to call the press an incompetent idiots.
Ramafosa played a smart game. It was not just golf diplomacy, even though it certainly helped. He brought a qualified diplomatic team that was prepared for reflection. Among them was the Minister of Agriculture of the country, John Steinhuyzen, a white man and a member of a rival party who told Trump that South Africa had a problem with crime in rural areas, not a problem with white genocide. Ramafosa repeatedly refers to Nelson Mandela and the history of South Africa about racial peacekeeping after apartheid.
By the end, the mood was lightened. Ramafosa even had the position to pierce a joke.
“I’m sorry I don’t have an airplane to give you,” he said when Trump was in the middle of the anger for the media after being questioned about his new Qatari plane.
If there was a rescue grace from blowing, it was that the largest South African agitator in the room was protected from even worse things.
“Elon is from South Africa,” Trump said, citing Elon Musk, who stood rightly on the president’s side in the oval office.
“I don’t want to participate in an elon,” Trump said. “I don’t want to talk to him about it. I don’t think it’s fair to him.”
Ramafosa laughed. Finally, something they could agree to.