Chido Nwangwu writes on the recent failed attempt by the United States President, Donald Trump to ambush South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa during a meeting at the former’s Oval Office in the White House, Washington DC.
On Wednesday May 21, 2025, the world watched live on kinds of multimedia platforms and channels as the perennially divisive President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, mounted a fierce, false and failed claim of “genocide” by the majority Black, indigenous people against the White, minority communities of farmers and farm owners. For radical and racially-polarizing impact, most of owners, inheritors, allies and international sympathizers and far-right activists and confederacy of ideological soulmates of the apartheid and post-apartheid period sometimes refer to their misleading drumbeat of divisive distortion as “White genocide” perpetrated by Black Africans and some non-European people in South Africa.
Hence, Trump’s clumsy efforts and embarrassing scene at the Oval Office in his meeting with South Africa’s affable President Cyril Ramaphosa was another kind of “mission impossible.”
