A Diplomatic Meeting Goes Off the Rails
What began as a light exchange over aircraft quickly turned into a bizarre and heated conversation.
Trump veered into a long-discredited narrative about so-called “white genocide” in South Africa — a claim that has been widely debunked by international watchdogs and South African authorities.
The former president even played a graphic video allegedly showing a mass grave of white farmers, accompanied by footage of white crucifixes and violent lyrics from a controversial anti-apartheid song.
“They’re being killed,” Trump insisted, accusing the South African government of turning a blind eye to violence against white citizens.
Ramaphosa pushed back, visibly disturbed but measured in his response:
“We are completely opposed to that,” he said. “The song is not meant to be taken literally… Please, listen to the voices of South Africans.”
