South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s meeting with President Donald Trump was tense. It wasn’t a screaming match. Mr. Ramaphosa was calm and collected, but Trump showed the African leader footage of farm attacks and leaders of opposition parties clamoring about killing white farmers.
Trump assured Ramaphosa that he wasn’t trying to make him look bad, but the South African leader was aghast. He did try to push back on the claims of white genocide, said his government is strongly opposed to any race-based violence, and attempted to clear the air about the new legislation that aims to strip land from farmers.
Trump SHUTS DOWN an NBC reporter for implying the U.S. took in white Afrikaners as refugees solely because of their skin color.
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"This is a group, NBC, that is truly fake news. They ask a lot of question that are very pointed. They’re not questions, they’re statements...
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Trump calls out the media for failing to cover reports of white farmers being targeted in South Africa:
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"A correct and a fair media exposes things, but we have a very corrupt media. They won't even report this. If this were the other way around, it would be the biggest story." pic.twitter.com/xNZHE6IrBP
🔥President Trump HUMILIATES a reporter for asking about the Qatari jet after playing a video showing claims of genocide in South Africa.
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"It's NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw. You're a TERRIBLE reporter....you're a disgrace." pic.twitter.com/N5uxRj2Q63
After the video, NBC’s Peter Alexander decided to ask Trump about the Qatari 747, which the United States Air Force formally took possession of, which sent Trump rightfully into a rage. He smacked him down, saying he didn’t have the chops to be a good reporter while calling his outlet fake news. It was vintage Trump.
🚨WOW: President Trump plays a video for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of South African officials calling for the killing of white farmers and the theft of their land, bolstering claims of a genocide in his country. pic.twitter.com/MyDqeZoDTr
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Omg. HAPPENING NOW: Trump is making the South African president watch the video of black South Africans calling for the genocide of white farmers. He had a tv brought in. Turned down the lights and played the video 😮😮😮😮😮 pic.twitter.com/NCeAZjp9e7
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The president kept circling back on ways to punch Alexander while commenting that the news media here would never report these stories from South Africa, so he brought it up in the Oval Office.
"You're taking people's land from them, and those people, in many cases, are being executed...I don't know how you explain that."
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Trump continues to push back against South Africa's president as he again refutes claims that white farms are being killed and their land stolen. pic.twitter.com/ceO4dh3HV9
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tries refuting evidence that white farmers are being targeted and killed in his country: "That is not government policy."
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Trump isn't buying it. pic.twitter.com/IPxEd6riw5
Full video:
FULL VIDEO: President Trump confronts South African President Ramaphosa on "white genocide" in South Africa." pic.twitter.com/KyMKDokfvN
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