President Trump clashed with South African President

 

President Trump clashed with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during an Oval Office meeting Wednesday over whether a “genocide” was taking place in the country against white farmers.
“It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here,” President Ramaphosa said, taking over a question to President Trump on what it would take to convince him there was no ongoing genocide.
President Trump responded by saying there are “thousands of stories” and “documentaries” illustrating his point before directing his staff to dim the lights and play a video that purports to show evidence of violence against white farmers.
He also held up printouts of news articles as evidence of his claims of a genocide. “Death, death, death,” he said as he flipped through the stories.
Asked what President Ramaphosa made of the videos, President Trump jumped in, saying, “When you look at the videos, how does it get worse?”
President Ramaphosa then explained that one of the video clips showing a politician calling for land expropriation without compensation was from a “small minority party” that did not represent his government.
“We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themself,” he said. “Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.”
President Ramaphosa said his country has a crime problem that affects all South Africans and that white people were not being killed at a higher rate than others.
“There is criminality in our country,” he said. “People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity are not only white people. The majority of them are Black people.”
The exchange then went on for another half hour, all in front of live television cameras.
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