By Katherine Tinsley
11:52am PDT, May 22, 2025
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Donald Trump met with South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, May 21, as the Republican continues to claim that a "white genocide" is occurring in the African nation. Fox News'
Peter Doocy later described the meeting — which
went off the rails when Trump verbally attacked an NBC News reporter — as incredibly "awkward."
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Fox News' Peter Doocy compared Donald Trump's time with Cyril Ramaphosa to
his explosive meeting with Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky.
"I didn't even know that you could dim the lights in the Oval Office, which is decades old. Seems like a place that would just have an on or off switch, but President Trump called for the lights to be dimmed so that he could show this multimedia presentation to basically call the visiting South African president's bluff," Doocy said.
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Cyril Ramaphosa met with Donald Trump to refute the former reality star's "white genocide" claims, but Peter Doocy implied he was unsuccessful in that goal.
"The South African president came here to say there is no genocide happening in South Africa. President Trump basically said, 'Okay, well, then what's all of this?' And he showed political leaders and opposition leaders in South Africa saying some very heinous and violent things for several minutes," Doocy said.
"And he just made the South African president and the rest of the South African delegation sit there in the half-dark room and watch it," he continued. "And afterwards, President Trump did want to talk a little bit about trade and his visiting famous golfer friends from South Africa got to speak as well."
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A South African judge previously called the genocide assertion "clearly imagined" and "not real," but Donald Trump continues to assert that Afrikaners are being systemically oppressed.
"He said he has not made up his mind, despite the presentation that he had his staff cut and put forward, he's not made his mind yet about whether or not there's genocide happening," Peter Doocy recalled.
"That is something the South African team strenuously denies, and it's worth pointing out that is definitely the most awkward Oval Office meeting since [Volodymyr] Zelensky was here," he continued, referencing the time Trump asked Ukraine's president to leave the White House after
their meeting turned sour.
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Cyril Ramaphosa seemed largely unfazed by Donald Trump's claims, and he did not appear to cut short his time in Washington, D.C., in response to the former reality star's rhetoric.
Peter Doocy pointed out that it seemed Trump's meeting with Ramaphosa "ended a little bit better" than his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky because "the South African delegation is not leaving early."
"They will be sticking around for lunch," Doocy noted.
"But really when you watch that, it seems like the Trump foreign policy doctrine is a lot like the old slogan for the MTV show The Real World: 'Where people stop being polite and start getting real,'" he said. "And that's what we just saw from President Trump."
