Trump’s Oval Office Props: Deliberately Wrong, Embarrassingly So
President Trump presented South African President Ramaphosa with inaccurate evidence during a tense Oval Office meeting, claiming it depicted violence against white South African farmers. One image, purportedly showing burial sites, was actually from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while another originated from a white nationalist Facebook page. These misrepresentations fueled Trump’s ongoing accusations of anti-white sentiment and a fabricated “white genocide” in South Africa, further straining already tense US-South Africa relations. This meeting, intended to improve relations, instead highlighted existing divisions.
John Q. Hosedrinker