Trump’s ‘white genocide’ claims, police reform reversal, Chris Brown bail & more

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

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We start with a tense White House meeting between President Donald Trump and South Africa’s president. The Trump administration is putting police reform on the chopping block in two major cities. Israel may be planning to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. Target is facing more financial pressure since its DEI rollback. Plus, the latest on Chris Brown’s arrest in the UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.3	President Donald Trump defended granting white South Africans refugee status after 59 of them arrived in the U.S. last week. A lot of people are very concerned with regard to South Africa, and that's really the purpose of the meeting, and we'll see how that turns out.
0:53.3	But we have many people that feel they're being persecuted.
0:56.0	Trump said he hoped to receive a quote,
0:59.0	explanation from South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa,
1:03.0	on his country's approach to racial equity laws that Trump has falsely claimed
1:07.0	amount to, quote, genocide being committed against white South African farmers.
1:11.6	Trump made the remarks alongside Ramaphosa in the Oval Office during his White House visit.
1:16.6	South Africa has strongly denied those claims.
1:19.6	During their meeting, Trump and his aides played a short documentary,
1:23.6	which Trump says backs his claims of white genocide in South Africa, with members of Ramaphosa's
1:29.2	delegation surprised by the presentation. Trump also picked up a thick stack of articles claiming
1:34.9	white genocide, flipping through them. The South African president also defended his country's
1:40.4	land policy that was passed earlier this year that empowers the government to take
1:45.3	land and redistribute it on the basis of iniquities that have carried over from the apartheid era.
1:52.1	The Trump administration is attempting to end police reform agreements in Louisville, Kentucky,
1:57.1	where police shot and killed Brianna Taylor during a raid, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where
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