Posted on 05/21/2025 8:53:12 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Cyril Ramaphosa must have prepped for an awkward meeting.
After all, just a week earlier the Trump administration chartered a Boeing 767 to fly 59 Afrikaner farmers out of his country so they could claim refugee status amid allegations that the white population faced a genocide.
But he may not have reckoned with Donald Trump’s sense of theatre.
“Turn the lights down and just put this on,” he directed his aides in the Oval Office. “It’s right behind you.”
Ministers, reporters, two of the greatest golfers of all time, and the world’s richest man craned their necks to watch as the room exploded with the sounds of Julius Malema, a fringe South African politician, singing and dancing to “Dubul’ ibhunu.”
The translation of the Xhosa title leaves nothing to the imagination: “Kill the Boer – Kill the Farmer.”
Nothing in Mr Ramaphosa’s briefing notes could have prepared him for this cauldron, as Mr Trump went to town, narrating another portion of video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white farmers. The American president was thin on detail, but none of that mattered.
His guest had been well and truly “Zelenskyed,” ambushed in the Oval Office in front of rolling TV cameras. Whatever the merits of the arguments, a president who sees the world in zero sum terms was going to walk away with the win.
The presence of an extra set of journalists, from South African media, crammed behind the sofas, raised the temperature and the sense of excitement. It was the closest thing to a cage fight that you’ll ever see in daylight hours – perhaps no coincidence given that Steven Cheung, the White House director of communications, previously worked for the Ultimate Fighting Championship in Las Vegas.
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Our President deserves high marks on this. Kudos, sir!
Zelenskyed!
African President Ramaphosa can no longer pretend not to be aware of the deliberate and brutal racism aided and abetted by his government against the white population.
His forced awareness now makes him responsible for what happens in that part of the continent from this day forward.
This is what I voted for.
This guy called President Trump and asked if he could come to the White House.
That thug basically invited himself to the White House and got what he deserved.
"Well, one thing seems clear. If you are invited to the Oval Office for a press conference with President Trump, and you see Rubio and Vance are sitting on the couch, you are about to be embarrassed. Did Carney not see the Zelensky press conference? "
It was pretty obvious what was coming. Zelensky, Carney, Ramaphosa, next?
All the kool kids are showing up to sit with Trump and get a good mauling and humiliation. They are seeming to really crave it.
Being the nice guy Trump is, he always delivers.
And The Telegraph’s readers were Tappered.
So-o-o-o-o.... no trade deal?
Unless they want to "trade" ALL of the Afrikaners, who want to leave, for something little, from us in return.
I liked Trump’s approach but it will diminish the total number of dignitaries who answer his Clampett family style invitation to come on in and just “set a spell” and have a heapin’ helpin’ of his hospitality.
They’ll drag their tails on the floor behind them on the way out if they oppose Trump.
https://www.thesun.ie/news/5987639/farm-workers-torture-murder-south-africa/
https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages
Me too. Trump is truly a badass - in a good way.
Even the midnight radio guys like this.
Good Job Mister President! That is what i voted for.
They make it sound like it’s a bad thing that Trump called out the targeted killing of people because of their race.
Only if they have something to fear
| Yes, nopardons. President Trump was at his best. Only the corrupt media can call this unfair to put a prime minister to task for lawlessness in his country. And the best part was the question from NBC News trying to change subject to the Qatari airplane. Trump utterly shamed the guy and NBC! Great! President Trump put everything in the right perspective. This do-nothing South Africa leader should be ashamed of himself. Good! Though I noticed he tried to be cute by saying, "Well Mr. President, I do not have an airplane to give you." The beauty of what President Trump is doing is he's put controlling the narrative. The videos are widely seen, and the MSNBC critiques etc. are drawing people to see the event live! President Trump is mastering the management of the press like no President has done before. And it's all great TELEVISION! |
That ‘rassling gig taught him a LOT!
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