Trump, Oval Office and South Africa
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Moments before President Donald Trump escorted his South African counterpart into the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House aides could be seen wheeling two large-screen televisions down the driveway and into the West Wing.
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Trump hosted South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House amid tensions between the two nations over the U.S. resettlement of white South Africans.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s top law enforcement official said Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he “twisted” the facts to push a false narrative about mass killings of white people in his country.
After an uncomfortable Oval Office encounter with Donald Trump, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa becomes the latest world leader hoping to mend relations only to discover the US president has something else in mind: confrontation.
Trump lives in a tech-filled world that frequently seems to perplex him at the best of times. While staging a publicity stunt for Elon Musk’s cars at the White House back in March, Trump famously blurted out “everything’s computer” while sitting in a Tesla. Everything is indeed computer, Mr. President, and you seem to struggle with those.
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The US President was hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office when he was shown a video of white South Africans mourning their loved ones