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The President of South Africa follows the new game book for dealing with Trump

After the cars against the Volodym of Ukraine, Zelenskyy and King Abdullah from Jordan, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa may have shown other world leaders how they can prepare for the Oval Office Bear Pit of President Donald Trump.

Historically, these seats of the White House were boring affairs, full of grip-and-grin plattities and geopolitical technical jargon. Not so during the second term of Trump, who transformed his office into a Gladiatorial Arena.

There was a breathtaking stage of Vice President JD Vance against Zelenskyy in February. In the same month, Abdullah could not hide his dismay when Trump spoke in detail about his plans to take control of the Gaza Strip.

Therefore, Ramaphosa South Africa did not seem to be surprised when Trump ran over on Wednesday – the US President even became the lights for a demonstration of news clips, in which it was claimed that white farmers are victims of a genocide in South Africa.

Most of the experts agree that this is a false, unfounded claim that Trump has been used by Trump since his employment as a consultant for the billionaire Elon Musk, born in South Africa, who was in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

“It is a terrible sight – I've never seen anything like this before,” commented Trump while the film material was playing.

In contrast to other leaders, Ramaphosa – a former union leader and ally of Nelson Mandela, who Half ended with the end of apartheid – was clearly prepared. He spoke calmly and without interruption, polite but firmly with Trump.

“President Trump will need to listen to the voices of the South Africans, some of whom are his good friends,” he said when he was asked what would convince the American guide that he had wrong.

And there was a separate thrive.

Ramaphosa had brought Ernie Els and Gooses, two white South African golfers, both of whom are in the Hall of Fame and won six US open titles between them.

At a meeting together with the Golfanik Trump, the intention behind the maneuver was unmistakable.

“If there is a genocide of Africans, I can bet that these three gentlemen would not be here,” said the South African leader in the Oval Office and pointed out the white members of his entourage, including John Steenhuisen, his Minister of Agriculture. “It will mean him, President Trump, who hears her stories about her perspective.”

While the Zelenskyy fiasco “all caught up with its intensity and destructivity”, Trump's “planned attack” on Ramaphosa “recorded the level”, said Scott Lucas, a political professor at Ireland's University College Dublin.

“Ramaphosa seemed to have been very well informed and he kept his cool,” he said. “Managers all over the world now have a game book for how to deal with Trump.”

This does not mean that other managers have not yet achieved any similar successes.

The British Prime Minister Keir Strandmer developed from his breast pocket of King Charles III. When he came to the city in February – a gambit in the UK mocked because he was sycopheric, but one who was well received by Trump.

The Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has teamed up more than 20 hours of preparatory meetings with consultants before his showdown in the same month, according to a person familiar with the planning. This also seemed to be paid out: Ishiba came clearly and colorful with charts and illustrated Japanese investments in America and the kind of visual aids that Trump prefers.

As with Starrer, he played Trump's appetite for a theater gift and brought a golden samurai helmet, which in Japan often means prayers for prosperity and durability.

In the meantime, French President Emmanuel Macron, art of having a relationship with Trump, ruled, and at the same time maintained a macho resistance against some of his statements. During his own Oval Office in February, he put Trump's arm on Trump's arm and gently corrected his false explanation that the European countries had only “borrowed” money to Ukraine.

Even strict, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney kept a straight back, clumped Kiefer and – although they often fought to get a word on edge – made it clear through words and firm hand gestures that “Canada is not for sale”.

Even against this field, Ramaphosa's attitude was widespread.

“It is one thing to prepare to be attacked, and to be able to manage the situation,” said Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at the English University of Birmingham.

“Most people seem to believe that Ramaphosa has gotten out of it,” he added. “This may also be due to the fact that he has good skills of the people, which meant that he was better placed than some of the leaders of the world to defuse the situation.”

As artistic as a sparring partner Ramaphosa was, it is still unclear how effective his tactics will be.

“They wanted to see drama and something really big,” said Ramaphosa then reporters and played down the episode. “I'm sorry that we have disappointed you a little when it comes to it.”

But it was still a blue and encountered encounter for a country that needs very American financial help.

Hours before the Oval Office meeting said the South African finance minister Enoch Godongwana that his government did not have the necessary funds to cover a deficit of 430 million US dollars caused by Trump's cuts against foreign aid.

In Trump, the country faces a president who sees a “perfect trifecta” in the genocide of White farmers, Patrick Gaspard, a former US ambassador in South Africa, told MSNBC on Wednesday.

It enables Trump to “play a domestic political audience that is obsessed with white, existential threats”, while from domestic economic issues and Musk's attempts to maintain a South African license for Starlink, said Gaspard.

He not only called the encounter “deeply insulting and hurtful for a partnership that we have with a really important nation in Africa south of the Sahara”, but also said that they “a major disadvantage of Holy Space”.

The White House did not immediately respond to the NBC News request for comment.

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