South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is openly calling President Donald Trump’s policies “racist” and “uninformed,” especially after what he called a “spectacle” of a meeting last year. Ramaphosa had visited the Oval Office, hoping to clear up Trump’s false claims about white South Africans facing discrimination and killings because of their race.
Instead, the meeting turned into an “ambush.” In an interview with the New York Times, Ramaphosa described Trump dimming the lights, presenting misleading video footage, and handing over a stack of newspaper clippings, some of which weren’t even related to South Africa, all to push his point. Trump even suggested that white South Africans were experiencing conditions as bad as Black people did during apartheid.
