President Trump's meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa turned into a controversial theater, featuring false claims about white genocide against farmers. The event drew scrutiny, highlighting the ongoing narrative problems surrounding South Africa's socio-political issues. Media outlets debunked the white genocide theory, redirecting focus to the longstanding inequities post-apartheid that affect all South Africans. The meeting, anticipated as a diplomatic reset, ended up highlighting tensions rather than fostering reconciliation, leaving Ramaphosa's public relations efforts in tatters.
In a surreal display of diplomatic theater on Wednesday, President Donald Trump subjected his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa to watch fabricated evidence of a genocide against white farmers.
To single out white victims distorts the nation's trauma and turns a shared tragedy into a divisive fiction—one which Trump has turbocharged.
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