Trump ambushes South African president with video and false claims of anti-white racism
by David Smith in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6XEQH)
Cyril Ramaphosa responds to hectoring stunt in Oval Office and egregious claim of white genocide by suggesting calm
Donald Trump ambushed the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, by playing him a video that he falsely claimed proved genocide was being committed against white people under the opposite of apartheid".
The hectoring stunt on Wednesday set up the most tense Oval Office encounter since Trump's bullying of Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February. But Ramaphosa - who earlier said that he had come to Washington to reset" the relationship between the two countries - refused to take the bait and suggested that they talk about it very calmly".
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