Trump Stages Another Oval Office Ambush, Lecturing Ramaphosa (2)

President Cyril Ramaphosa came to the White House looking to persuade President Donald Trump to stop floating the conspiracy theory that there’s a genocide against White people in South Africa. Instead, the man who’d helped negotiate the end of apartheid walked into a trap.

Ramaphosa had sought the meeting with Trump in a bid to build a relationship with the president and boost trade. He brought two White South African professional golfers and the country’s White agriculture minister plus a book on the sport to present to the US leader. “If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide I can bet you ...