One of the most surprising moments in Donald Trump’s recent televised Oval Office ambush of Cyril Ramaphosa came just after Trump accused the president of South Africa of overseeing a genocide against white farmers.
“Death, death, death, horrible death,” Trump declaimed, like some dinner-theater Shakespearean villain, after showing the stunned South African delegation a video of hundreds of white crosses, which he claimed marked a mass-burial site. (It was actually a temporary memorial to two South African farmers who had been killed.)
