Trump leans on out-of-context images in Ramaphosa ambush

US President Donald Trump ambushed his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa at talks on Wednesday May 21, 2025 with a video and a stack of news articles meant to support unfounded claims of the "persecution" of white farmers. Trump intended the 4:30‑minute video, which has been widely shared on social media in recent weeks, and articles to be evidence of a campaign to kill white farmers in what he says amounts to a "genocide". But they contain many images taken out of context.