2️⃣ President *Donald Trump ambushed South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa* by playing him a *video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed* against white people, *driving farmers to flee to the United States.* 🇺🇸 🇿🇦 The *televised stunt* on Wednesday *turned the usually staid diplomatic setting* of the Oval Office into a *stage for Trump's contention* that *white South African farmers* are being *forced off their land and killed.* With *reporters present,* Trump had staff *put the four-minute video on a large screen,* saying it *showed black South African politicians calling for the persecution* of white people. _*"You do allow them to take land,* and then when they take the land, *they kill the white farmer,* and *when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them,"*_ Trump said. South Africa's president *disputed Trump's claims,* and after *initially appearing stunned* stayed *calm,* *avoiding the kind of row* Trump had with *Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky* in February. *Ramaphosa denied that his country confiscates land* from white farmers under a *land expropriation law* signed in January that *aims to redress the historical inequalities* of apartheid rule.