US Edition‘Into the mouth of Trump hell’? South African president says White House meeting wasn’t so dramatic
- On May 21, 2025, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C.
- Ramaphosa sought the meeting to address false U.S. Allegations about white farmer killings and to negotiate new trade deals amid South African concerns.
- During the meeting, Trump showed Ramaphosa a video featuring a fringe politician chanting about white farmer killings while confronting him with baseless claims.
- Ramaphosa noted that while some expected a dramatic or major event, he viewed the meeting positively and felt he had begun to shift Trump’s perspective.
- Consequently, Ramaphosa announced progress in trade discussions and expressed hope that Trump would participate in the G20 meeting scheduled to take place in South Africa in November 2025.
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The Hamilton Spectator‘Into the mouth of Trump hell’? South African president says White House meeting wasn’t so dramatic
The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leader’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House was one of trepidation.
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'Into the mouth of Trump hell'? South African president says White House meeting wasn't so dramatic
The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leader’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House was one of trepidation.
President Trump and the Video Screen
Diplomacy has rules. No matter how serious the subject matter, the negotiators are expected to be cordial, respectful, no matter what they may privately think of the person or persons sitting on the other side of the table. When a diplomat lets the mask slip for a moment, and calls out the opposition for cheating, for duplicity, even for atrocities, our sympathy is expected to lie with the person being exposed, because we simply weren’t supposed…
South Africa’s president says Trump meeting wasn’t so dramatic
South Africa's president says Trump meeting wasn't so dramatic South African President Cyril Ramaphosa made his name in some of the toughest, highest-profile political negotiations his country has ever faced. Ramaphosa was the African National Congress party's chief negotiator during the talks in the early 1990s that ended the apartheid system of white minority rule that had forced racial segregation on South Africans for nearly a half-century. …
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