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"I Started to Die." Trump Talks "White Genocide" With South African President in the Oval Office

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

Politics, News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Ben Parker is joined by former CIA analyst Holly Berkley Fletcher to discuss Wednesday’s oval office meeting between President Donald Trump and South African Cyril Ramaphosa, where the administration’s conspiracies about white genocide in the latter’s country were brought to the surface.

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0:00.0

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Ben Parker from the bulwark, President Trump just had an Oval Office meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa,

0:31.3

and wow is all I can say. Just wow. Here to try to make sense of what just happened is a friend of the

0:40.2

bulwark, Holly Berkeley Fletcher, who was not only raised in Kenya, but also was an Africa analyst for

0:50.3

the CIA for a very long time and knows more about African politics than I will ever forget.

0:56.0

So first question, based on that bonkers Oval Office meeting, Holly, who is the president of

1:02.4

Africa?

1:02.9

The president of Africa?

1:04.2

I think that's me.

1:05.4

I think I'm the president of Africa.

1:06.8

I mean, if it's an open job, I'll take it, right?

1:09.9

Don't I get free travel and free wine?

1:12.7

I've brought some South African wine here.

1:15.0

I'm just looking at my notes here.

1:17.2

And the president repeatedly said that, you know, he had a great meeting with Africa.

1:25.2

And he said, referring to Africa, a lot of countries don't have the land

1:31.7

value that you have. So that's a great way to start out. That's what I made out of all of that.

1:38.2

But I heard lots of, there's a lot of death in Africa. And I heard that there's a lot of actually

1:43.3

valuable land in Africa.

1:45.7

Yeah. So this was a meeting with Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, which is actually a

1:53.0

country. It's a country, a good, a real country, for real. Democracy. Yeah. Holly,

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