How Trump's Oval Office was attacked by South African President Ramaphosa

Cnn
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Moments before President Donald Trump accompanied his South African counterpart to the Oval Office on Wednesday, the helpers of the White House were able to cycle two large -scale TVs into the west wing.

President Cyril Ramaphosa could have had little to prepare for what he wanted to see.

Trump ordered that the lights were dimmed and admitted to his visitor, and a video of which he claimed that he was proof of his wrong proposal that white South African persecution and “genocide” are exposed.

A shocked ramaphosa, who had just exchanged courtesy with Trump over Golf, watched himself silently. Ramaphosa, an experienced diplomat who once acted as chief negotiator of Nelson Mandela during the talks to end the white minority rule, could hardly disguise his discomfort.

The moment was an orchestrum, whereby Trump's team had also printed out articles that he could hold in front of the cameras that he said that he had supported his demands on white “genocide”.

It was perhaps inevitable that Trump would use the meeting to have the marginal claims – which he had strengthened for months – that white farmers in South Africa confiscate their country and be killed in massive numbers. Just last week, 59 white South Africans arrived to the United States after granted the refugee status from the White House.

Since taking office in January, Trump has little to hesitate to convert his meetings into moments for public hostility. However, the multimedia surprise exceeded everything he previously staged in the Oval Office. Even his shouting match with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February, who appeared to some critics as pre -made trap, was not with visual aids.

An official of the White House said that Trump used the event on Wednesday to bring light into a problem that the administration of the opinion is that the “media have an eye on the eye”. CNN examined the claims of the white “genocide” in South Africa and has not found any evidence that they secure.

However, Trump said he heard of “thousands” of people about the problem. And despite Ramaphosa's calm attempts to describe the situation of his country and to deal with Trump's allegations, Trump seemed unmoved.

“Death, death, death, terrible death,” he said, leafing through the sides of the article printouts.

As the scene developed, Trump and his team had planned extensive planning in advance to try to secure the unfounded demands of white persecution. Helpers said they expected the problem at the center of the Oval Office and noticed when Ramaphosa said before traveling to Washington, he hoped to reject Trump from his misguided views.

This contributed to inspiring the plan of the White House, being equipped with the conversations with materials and playing the video that represented the politician of the opposition politician of Firebrand, Julius Malema, to demand violence against white farmers.

Shortly after the video had played, the White House had posted a copy on its official social media accounts. The articles that Trump waved around during the session were systematically shared by adjutants online.

Trump's allies applauded the confrontation online and saw them as another example of the president who fold the world leaders into account.

The organized introduction of the material indicated how eager Trump and his team were in advance to use the meeting to advance their persecution count, also hoped to talk about trade and other geopolitical questions as Ramaphosa.

No flattering or calibration by the South African leader – be it two professional golfers to join his delegation or add Trump to his renovation by Oval Oval Office – enough to ward off the waiting surprise.

“What they saw in the speeches that were kept – this is not a government policy. We have a multi -part democracy in South Africa that enables people to express themselves,” said Ramaphosa after the video. “Our government policy is completely against what he said.”

Trump's fixation on the alleged abuse of white South Africans is not a new obsession. He discussed that he wanted to help the White farmers to be driven out of their country during his first term. However, his public claims of oppression and “genocide” have increased significantly in the opening months of his second term.

The White House quickly pursued the processing of African refugees and at the same time claims refugee applications for other nationalities. And at the beginning of this year, the United States sparked help for the country and distributed its ambassador.

In many ways, Trump's criticism of the laws of South Africa – as a reparation according to Apartheid – meant exterminating diversity initiatives in the United States, which – like some of the South African laws he solves – should correct historical racial differences.

His views were supported by the billionaire Elon Musk born in South Africa, who was on Trump's top consultant in the first few months of his new government.

Musk has largely decided from his work to reform the federal government in order to concentrate on its business companies. But he returned to the White House for meeting with Ramaphosa on Wednesday, standing behind one of the golden sofas and watching how the controversial meeting developed.

Musk had accused South Africa of blocking his Starlink internet service from the company because the company did not get together with black owner laws.

Before visiting Wednesday, the heads of state and government of the South African government are preparing to offer a problem plan that enables Musk-based companies to operate in South Africa. The gesture was seen as an attempt to create a good will with the US administration before the conversations began.

Little seemed to do to smooth things. And when the spectacle of the Oval Office was in progress, Trump didn't seem to be interested in giving musk a speaking role.

“Elon is from South Africa and I don't want to talk to him about it,” he said. “I don't think it's fair for him.”