Trump, South African President Clash in the White House meeting

The differences between President Trump and the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa came to the head on Wednesday afternoon in an Oval Office meeting when they were coordinated whether the white genocide took place in South Africa.

Mr. Trump and Rampahosa meet with the billionaire Elon Mousk born in South Africa for a critical conversation in the middle of tensions between the USA and South Africa to the USA accepted 59 white Africans last week and gave them status as refugees.

At a time of the meeting, Ramaphosa asked Mr. Trump what it would need to convince him that there is no white genocide in South Africa.

“It will need President Trump who listen to the voices of the South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here,” Rampahosa replied, who brought South African golfers Ernie Els and was reserved with him in the White House. “… President Trump will need to listen to them. I will not repeat what I said.”

Mr. Trump replied that there were “thousands of stories” and “documentaries” about the situation in South Africa before he led his employees to affect the lights in the Oval Office and play a video for everyone in the room against violence against white South Africans. The President said the pictures show graves from the white farmers.

After completing the video, Mr. Trump and Ramaphosa went back and forth through the situation.

Ramaphosa said that he did not see the videos that the President's team played, and the videos do not represent a government policy. He said he and his party were “completely against the language used in the film material.

“We have dead white, dead white farmers, mostly,” said Trump.

Others in the South African delegation, which accompanied Ramaphosa, said Mr. Trump that the problem in South Africa is not a white genocide, but the crime in general that affects the South Africans above demographic data.

The Trump-Ramaphosa meeting, in which reporters were allowed in the room for over an hour, is another case of the US president who invites the media to testify and transfer testy exchange with other world leaders instead of keeping these discussions behind closed doors.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly white farmers said In South Africa there were destinations of “Völkermur” – an assertion in South Africa and Ramaphosa rejected – and insists that South Africa is “out of control” and Muschus reflects. In the meeting on Wednesday, Mr. Trump said “Elon Want” that the Africans would be left to the United States as refugees. During the time when reporters were in the Oval Office for the meeting, Musk said nothing.

The beginning of the Oval Office meeting was more smooth. Mr. Trump called it a “great honor” to be with the South African president, who, as he said, in some circles that are really respected, other circles, a little less respected, like all of us, in all fairness. ”

“We are essentially here to reset the relationship between the United States and South Africa,” said Ramaphosa in his first comments.

When asked by a reporter, why the government lets white Africans to the United States and at the same time refused to enter other refugees, the president first began the news channel who asked the question.

“We had enormous symptoms of Africa, including other countries, of people,” said Trump. “They said there are many very bad things in Africa, and we will discuss that today.”

“We have a lot of people who feel like they are persecuted,” added Mr. Trump.

Africans are white South Africans Dutch descent who have lived in South Africa for four centuries. In addition to English, Africans have their own language, Afrikaans, who have his roots in Dutch and is one of 12 official languages ​​in South Africa.

The accelerated procedure for the Africans takes place because the Trump government works to suspend the refugee control program and to receive several legal challenges.

In a tense exchange during a hearing on the Capitol Hill on Tuesday in budget matters, the democratic Senator Tim Kaine from Virginia asked that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio are being followed more than the Africans than the Uyghurs or Rohingyas, or dissidents in Kuba, Venezuela or Nicaragua or those who are threatened by the valley they threatened by the Taliibs.

Kaine suggested that the Trump administration preferred the Africans due to the skin color, and asked Rubio why the USA should prioritize Africans. Rubio said the Africans were a “small sub -group”.

“It's a new problem,” said Rubio. “And the president identified it as a problem and wanted to use it as an example. However, this differs from these refugee programs, which basically spend money on accepting people in communities and accommodating them, and it was as a magnet.”

“Let me challenge me, and I will only say for the public if you want to understand about the quote that the persecution of the African farmers, look at the composition of the South African government,” replied Kaine. “Since July 2024 there has been a government of national unity today. And the opposition party – the ANC – the African party, the Democracy – alliance is part of the government coalition. Is the Minister of Agriculture in South Africa currently.

Caroline Linton and

Sara Cook

contributed to this report.