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World leaders have a huge new problem: Trump’s Oval Office smackdowns
CNN ^ | 5/22/25 | Stephen Collinson, CNN

Posted on 05/22/2025 8:46:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff

t’s the new Hunger Games of world politics — the televised Oval Office take-down by President Donald Trump.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was the latest leader to become a MAGA prop Wednesday, as Trump lectured him on false claims that White South African farmers are the victims of a genocide.

Foreign leaders now enter the hallowed lair of the US president — who runs press conferences like they’re WWE cage matches — at their peril

Trump’s dressings-down are a metaphor for a US foreign policy that is erratic, politicized and awash in conspiracy theories. As Ukraine and Jordan also found out, the more vulnerable a country, the more hostile a reception they tend to get.

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: embarrassing; fakenews; farm; pantiesinawad; souers; stephencollinson; trumpthafrica

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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was the latest leader to become a MAGA prop Wednesday, as Trump lectured him on false claims that White South African farmers are the victims of a genocide.

I guess two people who were gunned down in DC, by a lunatic leftist, in that he was fueled anti-Israel hatred, is a false claim, to this journalist.

1 posted on 05/22/2025 8:46:03 AM PDT by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

Americans want “transparency”. PRESIDENT TRUMP is giving it to them. A heck of a lot better than we got from Joe Pedo Biden (*) PINO.


2 posted on 05/22/2025 8:48:36 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Where can Americans go to seek justice now that the RATS own the judiciary?)
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To: DallasBiff

Lovin it!


3 posted on 05/22/2025 8:50:45 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: DallasBiff

False claims? What the hell are they talking about. We finally have a leader that shows the world the truth and all they do ,is say he is lying. What a terrible world these scum have made. It is us against the world . MAGA!!!!!!!!!!!


4 posted on 05/22/2025 8:51:17 AM PDT by spincaster (ifi)
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To: DallasBiff

“false claims”

Yeah, those mass graves are false.

When people wonder “how Hitler got away with murder”, this is exactly how. The socialist press of the day gave a pass to the socialist Hitler and called the Holocaust a “conspiracy theory”.


5 posted on 05/22/2025 8:51:55 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: DallasBiff

Trump’s dressings-down are a metaphor for a US foreign policy that is erratic, politicized and awash in conspiracy theories.


Horse hockey! Trump’s foreign policy, while America First, is also fair; a thing it hasn’t been for a long time.


6 posted on 05/22/2025 8:53:03 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing)
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To: DallasBiff
Trump’s dressings-down are a metaphor for a US foreign policy that is erratic, politicized and awash in conspiracy theories.

As the background voice utters: "THIS, is CNN".

7 posted on 05/22/2025 8:54:20 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DallasBiff

As always, whatever CNN says you immediately know the exact opposite is the truth. No further research required.


8 posted on 05/22/2025 8:57:39 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: TheThirdRuffian

The New York Slimes (Times) literally posted numerous articles during WW2 downplaying or even denying the Holocaust, now we have CNN to join them.

https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/how-the-nyt-missed-the-story-of-the-holocaust-whil

The media has never been for the people, it has always been a tool of the elite who hate the common man.


9 posted on 05/22/2025 8:58:02 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: DallasBiff
I guess two people who were gunned down in DC, by a lunatic leftist, in that he was fueled anti-Israel hatred, is a false claim, to this journalist.

No, I doubt he'd call that a false claim.

10 posted on 05/22/2025 8:58:27 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: DallasBiff

Lesson: Don’t mess with our Trump!


11 posted on 05/22/2025 8:58:56 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Schiff to GITMO)
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To: DallasBiff

Trump is a revolutionary. Telling the truth is a revolutionary act.


12 posted on 05/22/2025 9:00:02 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Skwor

It’s like the set on Sanford and Son where Aunt Ester has come over.


13 posted on 05/22/2025 9:00:25 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: DallasBiff

CNN has decided that the claims of genocide in South Africa are false. They will only be convinced that they’re not false after all the Whites in South Africa have been ethically cleansed.


14 posted on 05/22/2025 9:00:30 AM PDT by Antoninus (Republicans are all honorable men.)
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CNN should lose its license for helping GENOCIDE
before the fact.

The FCC should be closed for doing nothing.


15 posted on 05/22/2025 9:00:41 AM PDT by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

It’s okay.

Media will walk back claims denying genocide, after everyone is exterminated.

It’s their “what difference, at this point, does it make?” policy, as shown in the Biden competency coverups.


16 posted on 05/22/2025 9:01:42 AM PDT by Rinnwald
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Trump doing the job journalism is apposa do. For the past 15 years the same journalists have been reporting the murders of South African farmers. Now......never happened.


17 posted on 05/22/2025 9:02:20 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Angelino97; DallasBiff

The failed English major would definitely call it a “false claim”, as he orally serviced another Hamas guy and chanted “from the ocean to the sea!” between gulps.


18 posted on 05/22/2025 9:02:22 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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Zelensky was another supplicant. After he was kicked out of the White House for reacting angrily to Vance’s demands for gratitude, he spent weeks making amends.

************

Zelensky was rightly kicked out because he's a disrespectful ingrate who also reneged on a deal. Those two things would earn anyone a well deserved slap down. If a similar situation had occurred with Biden doing what Trump did this CNN lackey would have praised him for defending the interests of the country.

19 posted on 05/22/2025 9:03:15 AM PDT by Starboard
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The guy got treated better than Zelensky.

He got to stay around for a Big Mac, large fries and a shake.

Although he was hoping for KFC.


20 posted on 05/22/2025 9:04:10 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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