What President Donald Trump did in the Oval Office with the President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, was astonishing.
We hear people talk all the time about how, when we’re talking with foreign nations, we should be pressing on human rights. Well, we got that, big time, from Trump, when he cornered the South African leader, lowering the lights and treating him to a video of evidence of the issues in his country. There wouldn’t be a better time to do it, to promote change. The South African leader is there because he wants things. That’s the time to say, okay, you want things, so do we, we want you to do something about what’s going on.
This moment was interesting as Trump says he hadn’t made up his mind yet on whether to term what’s happening as “genocide,” with President Ramaphosa at his shoulder.
Reporter: “Genocide is a very strong word. I’m…
