In an astonishing ambush, President Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office on Wednesday during a meeting with President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa and showed what he said was video evidence of racial persecution of white South Africans.
[A] journalist asked what it would take for Mr. Trump to change his mind that there was no “white genocide” in South Africa.
Mr. Ramaphosa said that “it will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans.”
Mr. Trump largely dismissed Mr. Ramaphosa’s attempt to describe the situation in his own country…
The South African delegation continued to try to explain to Trump the situation on the ground in South Africa, but he remained unmoved. “Dead white people, dead white farmers,” he said.
“We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves,” Mr. Ramaphosa told Mr. Trump. “Our government policy is completely against what he was saying.”
Date: 05/21/2025
Source: New York Times
URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-visit.html