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Oval Office Showdown

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At White House, Trump confronts South African President over white genocide  claims - India Today

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In a tense Oval Office meeting, President Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with claims of a white genocide against white farmers. The New York Post reported that the lights were dimmed to show a video featuring inflammatory rhetoric and a memorial for murdered farmers. Trump also criticized the country’s new land confiscation law.

The Daily Signal reported:

Trump flipped through a thick stack of news articles about white farmers being killed.

“Death, death, death,” he said.

He slammed South Africa for a law signed by the president in 2023 enabling the government to “seize ethnic-minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”

“You’re taking people’s land away from them, and those people in many cases are being executed … how do you explain that?” Trump asked.

Ramaphosa denied the claims, stating the government opposes such actions and the rhetoric shown is not official policy.

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