Unreal move by Donald Trump at the White House this week as he met with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa in front of the world’s media.
After an initial friendly chat between them, Donald Trump asked staffers to dim the lights in the room and then began playing a video purportedly showing evidence of the ‘genocide’ of white farmers in South Africa, including South African officials calling for violence against them:
Donald Trump has ambushed South Africa’s President by playing videos which he claims pertain to allegations of ‘genocide’ in South Africa.
“I’d like to know where that is because this [the videos] I’ve never seen” Cyril Ramaphos responded.https://t.co/ePDAgEPC2G
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Now we’re not going to act like we know what’s going on in South Africa, but reaction online varies between critics claiming that the issue is overblown and others congratulating Trump for bringing it to light.
Either way, it’s a pretty controversial move to pull on a fellow world leader without warning and in front of the world. Cyril Ramaphosa did not look comfortable at all!
Later in the meeting, the South African president said: “I’d like to know where that is because this [the alleged burial site in the video] I’ve never seen”.
He added: “What you saw, the speeches that were being made, that is not government policy. We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to various policies.”
“And in many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy.”
“Our government policy is completely, completely against what he [a person in the video montage] was saying, even in the parliament. And they are a small minority party which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution.”
Later, after he had left the White House, Ramaphosa told press that his meeting with Trump went “very well” and claimed: “There is just no genocide in South Africa.”
So there may not be a genocide in South Africa, but it might still be a good idea to do something about the politicians who appear to calling for one, all the same. Wonder if Ramaphosa will have anything in store for Trump should he visit South Africa in the future? Somehow I doubt it’s on his list of countries to visit.
For the South African man who thought it would be a good idea to propose to his girlfriend at her father’s funeral, click HERE.
