Donald Trump has entered into another tense Oval Office meeting, by accusing South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of "genocide."
South Africa has strongly rejected the allegation and Ramaphosa pushed for the meeting with Trump in an attempt to salvage his country's relationship with the United States.
Donald Trump has hit out at South Africa’s Government, accusing it of seizing land from white farmers, pushing anti-white policies, and pursuing a foreign policy that’s hostile to the West, particularly the US.
Speaking to reporters and Ramaphosa, Trump said: "These are people that are officials and they're saying 'kill the white farmer and take their land.'
Donald Trump has hit out at South Africa’s Government, accusing it of seizing land from white farmers
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"I have friends that left, one in particular that says you can't go there. He said they want to take your land.
"They take your land and they kill you. It's okay. And they say it's okay to do. I don't know how it can get any worse."
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The President of South Africa responded: "Let me clarify that, because what you saw, the speeches that were being made, one that is not government policy.
"We have a multi-party democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to various policies.
"In many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not go along with government policy. Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying, even in the parliament and the small minority party which is allowed to exist in terms of our Constitution."
Trump fumed: "But you do allow them to take land?"
Ramaphosa responded by saying "no" several times and Trump continued: "Then they take the land. They kill the white farmer. And when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them."
Ahead of the tense row, Trump directed the room’s attention to a TV screen, where he played a documentary featuring South African opposition figure Julius Malema singing a controversial song that includes the line “shoot the Boer” a phrase widely understood to refer to White farmers.
The Potus also went through a stack of newspapers about violence in South Africa.
The South African President defended his country stating: "There is criminality in our country. People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people. Majority of them are black people."
Trump also went through a stack of newspapers about violence in South Africa
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When Trump pressed Ramaphosa about the controversial land expropriation law, he replied that South Africa’s constitution “guarantees and protects the sanctity of tenure of land ownership” for “all South Africans."
Donald Trump announced in February that he was cutting off funding to South Africa claiming the government is “confiscating land” and “treating certain classes of people very badly.”
He’s also warned he may boycott the G20 leaders' summit in Johannesburg this November.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa is the first African leader that Donald Trump has hosted at his office since he returned to power in January.
