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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,779 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:47 PM 5 hrs ago

World Leader Reveals He Was Stunned by 'Truly Uninformed' Trump

The president of South Africa has revealed how shocked he was by Donald Trump’s “racist” views when he met the U.S. leader in person last year.

“I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed,” Cyril Ramaphosa told the New York Times on Thursday.

“I realized that he is looking at South Africa through a completely, sort of, foggy lens, without realizing the real, real harm that apartheid did,” he added. “In my view, he was just dismissive.”

Ramaphosa was a close confidant of President Nelson Mandela, who fought for almost half a century to liberate Black South Africans from apartheid. Trump has repeatedly pushed far-right conspiracy theories about an ongoing “white genocide” in South Africa under Ramaphosa’s leadership.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leader-reveals-stunned-truly-154657290.html

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Turbineguy

(39,961 posts)
1. For centuries the whites have claimed dark skinned people were ignorant savages.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:51 PM
5 hrs ago

And then you meet Trump.

wcmagumba

(6,016 posts)
2. Rump is totally devoid of intelligence and a racist to boot...
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:52 PM
5 hrs ago

The Magas have ruined the good reputation (if we ever had one) of America...

eppur_se_muova

(41,660 posts)
3. Well, we're not sending them our best people. We're sending them multiply-convicted felons.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:55 PM
5 hrs ago

With cankles like cantaloupes.

BaronChocula

(4,399 posts)
10. Nice! Racism redux
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:45 PM
3 hrs ago

Going back to Stenchwad Steve King of Iowa with the legs like cantaloupes.

Tanuki

(16,404 posts)
4. Trump is a lifelong racist who practiced his own brand of Apartheid
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:59 PM
5 hrs ago

in his family real estate business.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067

"The FBI has released nearly 400 pages of records on an investigation the bureau conducted in the 1970s into alleged racial discrimination in the rental of apartments from President Donald Trump's real estate company.

The files detail dozens of interviews the bureau conducted with Trump building tenants, management and employees, seeking indications that minority tenants were steered away from housing complexes.

Most of those interviewed said they were not aware of any discrimination. However, some of the records recount the stories of black rental applicants who said they were told no apartments were available, while whites sent to check on the same apartments were offered leases.
....
A supervisor "told me that if a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment," the ex-doorman said.".... (more)

NoMoreRepugs

(11,964 posts)
8. The entire Planet knows he's a MORON and yet the Deplorable horde
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 10:51 PM
4 hrs ago

thinks he’s some sort of godking. Sad.

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