Ramaphos continues cool during Trump’s choreographic press

Three months on Donald Trump’s second term, foreign leaders should know that the cherished trip to the oval office comes at the risk of very public dressing, often deviating from provocation and humiliation.

The episode on Wednesday with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphos was a classic of this kind, with an ambush -added turn, with the participation of dim lights, long -term video checks and news.

As the television cameras swept, and after a good discussion, Trump’s journalist asked that he would need to make sure that the white genocide’s discredited claims in South Africa are untrue.

Ramaphos replied first, saying that the president would have to “listen to the voices of the South African.” Then Trump entered, asking the assistant to “turn off the light” and put the TV so he could show the South African leader “a couple of things”.

Elon Musk, his advisor and billionaire born in South Africa, calmly watched from the sofa.

The following was an unusual and highly choreographed pressure of the US president’s alleged persecution of white South Africans who repeated the aggressive treatment of Ukraine’s leader Floodimir Zelensky during his February visit to the White House.

South African political fires were presented on the big screen, chanting “shooting” the storm, anti-port. And Trump, which so often was critical of the media, seemed a happy advice on photos of uncertain origin.

The US leader also seemed to believe that political leaders in the personnel – who are not part of the government – had the power to confiscate the land from white farmers. They don’t do it.

While Ramaphos has signed a conflicting bill that allows for land attacks earlier this year, the law was not fulfilled. And the South African publicly devoted themselves to the language in the specified political speeches.

But the main ally of South Africa Nelson Mandela and the negotiator who helped put the apartheid regime, came to this meeting.

Sometimes Trump does not know about the transparent efforts of foreign leaders in the foxes, and it was obviously part of the South African strategy.

However, Donald Trump is a golf fanatics, but the Ramaphos’s Golph Golph brings the top two golmonists – Ernie Els and Retieph Gussen – to meet on diplomatic problems and trade policy is not taken from the textbook on international relations that I read.

However, the pleasure of the US president from two white South African goliotists to be at the exhibition for everyone.

Their forecasts for the fate of white farmers received almost as many screen as democratically elected President of South Africa, which was heavily limited to quiet, short intervention.

But Ramaphos will probably be satisfied with this. Gololists, together with his White Minister of Agriculture, himself from the opposition party, which is part of the national government, were there, at least in part, as a shield – a kind of diplomatic gold dome, if you like, and it worked.

Trump has repeatedly returned to the question of the situation of farmers – dozens of which he welcomes in the US as refugees. But President Ramaphos did not bite, and the provocations remained largely on the breeze.

At one point, he referred to golf and a billionaire billionaire who joined his delegation, saying Trump: “If there was an African genocide, I can argue that there would be no three gentleman here.”

But despite the fact that the President of Trump failed to withdraw from the President of South Africa, this does not mean that his efforts for more than an hour were in vain; Of course, they were not.

This performance of diplomacy is directed as much to the domestic American audience as the newest visitor of the oval office.

Central in the project “Make America Great (Maga)” is the preservation of energy around perceived grievances and resentment, and President Trump knows what his supporters want.

If some foreign leaders learn to navigate these moments with skill, Donald Trump may have to change the book a little to continue to have the influence he wants.