Trump ambushes South African President Ramaphosa but it backfires!

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    Ramaphosa didn't bite.

    This is similar to what Trump did to Zelensky and one wonders what exactly his agenda is, apart from being completely ignorant of the facts and wishing to humiliate other world leaders, live in the Oval Office.

    Accordin to the BBC these are the facts:

    Fact-checking Donald Trump's Oval Office confrontation with Cyril Ramaphosa
    President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.
    www.bbc.com

    The audience he is playing to actually see lying and bullying as signs of strength, and they admire him for being an big, strong alpha male towards unwary foreign guests who walk into the trap.


    Also, there’s not the slightest chance that people in his base will ever fact check his baseless claims, for the simple reason that they really like his Alternative Facts, aka lies.