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In a tense meeting, Trump has the South African president watch videos about 'White Völkermur'.

Washington – What started as the friendly first meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, quickly shifted after a reporter Trump asked about the United States' decision to admit dozens of white South Africans as refugees.

Trump claimed that there was a genocide against white in South Africa, which Ramaphosa and other South Africans had vigorously contested.

The heated meeting on Wednesday marks the latest in a number of unusually tense Oval Office meetings with foreign leaders. In the middle of an increased tensions between the USA and South Africa for claims by Trump and Elon Musk about the laws of the country's right to racen, which caused the United States to recover white South African refugees – while refugees from other countries were eliminated.

Musk, who was born in South Africa, went on and claimed that it was a genocide against White in the country – commented that Trump finally started to come back.

After reporters asked about his genocide representatives, Trump paused to assemble clips on a television in the room he said to have supported his claims.

Ramaphosa replied to the assembly, which contained videos of people who spoke about “throat” and shoot white people, and said that the comments in the videos are “not a government policy”. Later, the Minister of Agriculture in South Africa said that several people included in the assembly were part of minority parties who are not part of the country's ruling coalition.

“We have a multi -party democracy in South Africa that enables people to express themselves,” he said.

When asked whether he condemned the language in the video, Ramaphosa said: “Oh yes.”

When asked by NBC News in the meeting On the decision of the White House to admit white South African, Trump claimed that “many people in relation to South Africa are very concerned” and raised false accusations of genocide in the country.

“We take in many, many places when we believe that persecution or genocide are going on,” said Trump.

Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, met on Wednesday together with several cabinet officers. Musk was a convinced critic of his country of birth.

Trump and Musk claim that the Africans, white descendants of Dutch and French settlers, were the goals of a “genocide” – although there are no data that supports it. This month, the government gave 59 white South Africans as refugees after claiming that they were against violence and discrimination. The South African leaders have violently contested the murder claims.

“We all know that South Africans both know that there is no genocide here,” said Ramaphosa last week in a video clip about X.

President Donald Trump welcomes South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House on Wednesday.Alex Wong / Getty Pictures

The Guide's Oval Office meeting started with Trump that Ramaphosa was “a little less respected” by some.

“He is a man who is certainly really respected in some circles,” said Trump about Ramaphosa. “Other circles, a little less respected, like all of us, fairly.”

Ramaphosa replied: “We are all like that,” laugh.

Ramaphosa informed the reporters on Tuesday that his visit on Wednesday will concentrate on potential trade and investment transactions and consolidate “good relationships between our two countries”.

Trump accused South Africa of being “terrible” to farmers, and in February he said that the United States would dismantle the country to help the country because in the truth it claims social aids that South Africa was “very bad”.

Last year there were 12 murders at farms, reported Associated Press, citing police statistics. One of the victims was a farmer, and the rest were agricultural workers, none of whom was identified through the breed. According to government data, white farmers have about three quarters of the privately owned state data.

The White House has also criticized the law on the expropriation of 2024 South Africa, which enables the government to confiscate unused country without compensation in some cases, or if there is a public interest in redistribution (a process similar to the United States of the excellent domains).)

Ramaphosa said in February that his government had not confiscated the country.

“The recently adopted law on expropriation is not a confiscation instrument, but a constitutionally prescribed legal process that guarantees public access to land in a fair and justified manner, as is guided by the constitution,” he said to X.

Nevertheless, the White House claimed that the law was a “shocking disregard for the rights of its citizens” and claimed that measures followed that “refueling disproportionate violence against racistically untried landowners”.

The administration used the law to prioritize the approval and resettlement of the refugees for the Africans, even when the Trump government came to admit refugees from most other countries, including Afghanistan, Sudan and Myanmar.

One of Trump's Executive Orders on his first day in office stopped the refugee registration program and argued that the country was unable to “accept large number of migrants and refugees”, which does not affect the availability of resources for Americans who protect their safety and protects the appropriate assimilation of refugees. “

Africans are white descendants of Dutch and French settlers who ruled the country during the apartheid regime, which ended in 1994. During Apartheid rule, Africans enforced the racial regulation and confiscated land of black residents.

The X account for the South African government published in February: “We look forward to dealing with the Trump administration about our land reform policy and questions of bilateral interest.”

“We are sure that we will share a better and common understanding of these matters from these engagements,” the position continued.

Musk has also said that Starlink, his satellite internet service, “is not allowed to operate in South Africa because I am not black”. Starlink would need certain licenses in the country, and South Africa has regulations to ensure that some of the telecommunications licenses abroad are sold to historically disadvantaged groups.

The United States and South Africa also stuck the heads of the Israel Hamas War after South Africa accused of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. South Africa leads a case in front of the United Nation's International Court of Justice.

The White House referred to the allegations of genocide in Trump's executive regulation in February in the focus of African refugees and said that “South Africa took aggressive positions to the United States and its allies”.

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