Article 6XEZG Trump news at a glance: Ramaphosa keeps his cool in Trump’s ‘orchestrated show for the cameras’

Trump news at a glance: Ramaphosa keeps his cool in Trump’s ‘orchestrated show for the cameras’

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The South African president insists the meeting went very well' despite Trump publicly berating him. Key US politics stories from Wednesday 21 May 2025

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa refused to take the bait when Donald Trump falsely accused his nation of committing white genocide, in what his spokesperson dismissed as an orchestrated show for the cameras".

Ramaphosa remained composed and suggested the two leaders talk about it very calmly" as Trump ambushed him with a video making the untrue allegations that white Afrikaners in South Africa were victims of genocide.

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