The president of South Africa could not stop laughing about his meeting with Donald Trump.
Cyril Ramaphosa said that he had obtained flashbacks to meet him with the American president when he went on stage at the sustainable infrastructure development symposium on Tuesday at Cape Town.
“When I entered, I saw the room become a little dark. They darkened the room. And for a while, I was wondering:” What is it? It happens to me again “”, he said with a little laugh while the crowd laughs.
Trump’s otherwise cordial meeting with Ramaphosa in the White House last week took a Zelensky style turn when he played a video of what he claimed to be the place of burial of white farmers who would have been killed by black South Africans trying to take their land.
“At that time, we were very well seated and I was starting to enter a groove of interaction with this man, and I suddenly heard him say:” No, Dim the Lights “, told Ramaphosa to the Cape Town, who laughed again.
Trump used their meeting to face Ramaphosa with unleated affirmations that the government led by black South Africa is anti-white and perpetuates a “white genocide” against local farmers while Elon Musk, the South African billionaire, stood on the sidelines of the oval office.
Verification of facts However, have noted that the images that Trump did not show the “burial sites” of “more than a thousand” white farmers. Instead, the white crosses exposed were temporarily erected as a memorial of a white agriculture couple shot dead in their premises in 2020.
The press secretary of the White House Karoline Leavitt recognized That “the video shows crossings that represent the corpses of people who have been racly persecuted by their government”, but who have passed an effiloche on issues that stressed that Trump said it was “burial sites”.
The interaction with Ramaphosa recalled a meeting similar to Trump with Volodymyr Zelensky FEBRUARYWhen he dressed the Ukrainian president in front of the cameras.
“I must say that a number of people said:” It was an ambush. It was an ambush “” said Ramaphosa on Tuesday. “And I was perplexed. I said, “What’s going on? »»
The Sunday TimesAn eminent South African newspaper, castigated Trump for “blind“Ramaphosa with the claims of a” white genocide “.
During the meeting of the Oval Office, Trump also organized an impression of an article by Thinker American as proof that white farmers “are buried” in South Africa. But the image that accompanied the article – which made the descent of the humanitarian workers raising bodies of the body – was, Actuallytaken in Congo.
American Thinker Director General Andrea Widburg, who is the author of the post that Trump quoted, said Reuters that the President “has poorly identified the image”. The White House did not respond to a request for comments from Reuters.
