Trump’s second Oval Office clash risks isolating US allies worldwide

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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump rejected the lights at the Oval Office on Wednesday, targeting South African President Serial Ramfosa for his latest geopolitical ambush for a foreign leader in front of television cameras.

In an unusual scenario made by the White House for the maximum impact – and reminded of Ukrainian President Wolodmeer Zelannsky’s visit in February – Trump faced false claims of genocide against South African whites, which included widespread casualties and landslides.

It was another exhibition of Trump’s clear preparations for using the Oval Office, which is historically aligned with a place of honor for foreign honors, to hold his feet to embarrass those coming from less powerful countries or to hold their feet.

The unprecedented use of Trump’s presidential setting for such a display can indicate that foreign leaders accept their invitation and think twice about the danger of public humiliation. This is a hesitation that can also make it difficult for relations with friends and partners that is being presented by the Arc Real China.

Former US ambassador to South Africa under President Barack Obama, Patrick Gaspard, said that Trump had turned his meeting with Ramphsa into a “shameful spectacle” and “saved him from some fake sniff film and violent statements”.

Gaspard, a senior colleague of the Center for American Progress Think Tank in Washington, wrote in a post on X, “It is never better for anyone to engage in Trump’s terms.”

The Oval Office meeting was called an opportunity to reset the tensions between the United States and South Africa – especially after Trump’s implementation of revenue – and eliminating the growing tension on the baseless allegations of its “white genocide” and resetting the white minority Africans.

After a pleasant start to the meeting, Trump – a former Reality TV star – ordered the lights to be dimmed and showed a video and printed articles that proved that white South Africans are being persecuted.

Ramphusa, who is clearly ready to counter Trump’s accusations but is unlikely to expect a political theater, was focused and consisted of because he tried to deny the thing offered by his host. But he prevented an American president from directly challenging or criticizing an American president with reputation.

“I am sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” Ramphosa said with a smile, referring to luxury jet liner Qatar as an alternative to Air Force One.

“You can see that President Ramfosa is being provocative,” his spokesman Vincent Magenia told South Africa’s Broadcaster Newsroom Afrika.

“You could see that his eyes were pulling, and he was not stuck in the trap,” said Magenia.

The White House did not immediately respond to the request as to whether the meeting was set up to put Ramfosa on a hot set, and whether it could discourage other foreign leaders from such visits.

Cameron Hudson, senior fellow of the Think Tank at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, said that when the television part of the meeting was a circus, it never crossed the line in anger or vitrival, so it did not go away from the mountain. “

Zelaninski – Trump screaming match

The mood stood in stark contrast to the Trump meeting a few months ago with Zelannsky, which turned into a screaming match comprising both president and vice president JD Venus.

Like Zilnsky, like Ramphosa, there was a relationship to break into relations – and in the case of Ukraine, Kiev maintain Kiev in the fight against Russian invading forces.

But the meeting was quickly withdrawn from the trains, Trump accused Zelinski of being dishonored and gambling with World War II, and Venice alleged that the Ukrainian leader had not praised US support.

The controversial nature of the meeting sent shock waves through the NATO alliance supporting the Ukrainian war against Russia.

It may be that Trump’s meeting with Ramfosa on Wednesday, but South Africa is a major political and economic player in Africa, calling China its largest trading partner, and the United States is second.

South Africa-who, in 1994, suffered severe discrimination against black people during colonialism and colorful before becoming a multi-party democracy under Nelson Mandela-dismissed Trump’s allegations.

Trump’s clash has been created for parts of his political base, especially the far -right and white nationalist classes, who have long forwarded the story of a “white genocide” in South Africa.

Exhibiting unauthorized claims of violence against white farmers and presenting ground reforms as racial persecution, Trump tapped popular points in American right -wing extremist circles.

Since returning to office in January, Trump has canceled aid, expelled the South African ambassador and re -resettled some white minority Africans based on racial discrimination claims. The program has been discriminatory, as Trump has largely stopped the entry of refugees from the whole world.

A new South African land reform law – aimed at removing the injustice of colorfulness – allows for confiscation without compensation when it is in the public interest, for example if the land is falling. There has been no such conflict, and any order can be challenged in court.

“If anyone suspects that the Zilnsky incident has not been fully managed by the White House, I think the scales should fall through their eyes,” British Foreign Affairs Observers Tim Marshall told Times Radio in London.