UNI88 wrote: ↑Thu May 22, 2025 12:06 pm Trump’s attempt at Oval Office ‘gotcha’ moment backfired spectacularly - all because Ramaphosa kept his cool
The video was not, as promised, a documentary. Instead, the clips consisted largely of opposition and extremist political figures making incendiary statements calling for the killing of Afrikaners.
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“Now, this is very bad. These are burial sites right here. Burial sites of over 1000 white farmers,” he said. The South African contingent looked stunned, which makes sense since rather than being grave sites of murdered farmers, the mounds with crosses were actually part of a protest to stop the violence.
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Trump has the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world at his command, and could surely have produced a detailed and damning report on the alleged white genocide in South Africa and presented it to the world’s press.
Instead, the print outs appeared more like the Facebook feed of someone in danger of ending up on an FBI watchlist.
The meeting continued to go off the rails as Trump opined on the non-existent genocide to a room full of South Africans — Black and white — who were telling him it was not a thing.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2025/05/ ... s-n2189390Powerful: President Trump Chokes the South African President With His People's Own Words
…….During that visit, President Trump gobsmacked President Ramaphosa with a video of political rallies in South Africa, including chants of "Kill the Boer." Townhall has the shocking video on their X account:
….President Trump laid out the ground for this video…
What followed, by all means, watch the entire thing, was several minutes of shouters calling for confiscation of the land of white farmers, shouts of "Kill the Boer," and one agitator bellowing, "In revolution, at some point there must be killing."
These were followed by a long line of graves, the graves of Boer farmers who had been murdered. Powerful stuff.
President Ramaphosa watched, his expression stunned, like a high schooler in detention; he was clearly uncomfortable. Later, he objected, claiming that this wasn't the policy of his government:I'm sure President Ramaphosa would like to have us think that, but there are too many dead Boers to excuse the government from any culpability in this. And the statement about allowing people to express themselves is pure corral litter. The United States has greater protections for freedom of expression than any nation in the world, and any political rally shouters here in the U.S. who called for what these agitators in South Africa are calling for would be jailed. This isn't freedom of expression, this isn't freedom of speech, this is an incitement to murder, an incitement to terrorism.What you saw, the speeches being made, one, 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, in some cases those policies do not go along with government policy.
This isn't what we've become accustomed to seeing in diplomacy, or what passes for diplomacy in much of the world. But President Trump isn't like any of his recent predecessors; he's looking for results. When he sends administration officials out to deal with these matters, he expects results, and he doesn't much care if another national leader is embarrassed in the process.
President Trump, later in the meeting, explained his reasons for being concerned with South Africa…
….Once more, President Trump has shown himself to be a president unlike any of the others, at least in recent years. He's expecting results; he's expecting the other nations of the world to comport themselves in a civilized manner. What's more, he doesn't much care if he has to embarrass another national leader to get his point across. That's what happened this morning in the Oval Office. It won't be the last time….
You posted the leftist interpretation, I posted the rightist one.
And you know if people over here did the reverse equivalent of what was done in S Africa: have a bunch of white leaders in a stadium full of white people calling for the murder of blacks while chanting racist shit people would lose their collective shit 100x worse and would be confronting Trump about it overseas.
In English please.