The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump Blows Up in Presser with South African President

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump’s disastrous Oval Office press conference with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, where Trump suffered one of his most embarrassing meltdowns yet. Visit MeidasPlus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connex Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. BetMGM operates pursuant to an operating agreement with iGaming Ontario. Wow, what a disaster. Donald Trump had South Africa's president, Cyril Ramaphosa, in the Oval Office today. This thing went sideways really quickly. Watch as the president of South Africa tells Donald Trump that, unlike Qatar, he can't give Donald Trump a gold-plated private jet.

Here, play this clip. That idiot you hear Donald Trump say, well, I would like another private jet? Seriously? Then throughout this press conference in the Oval Office, Donald Trump kept on blowing up at an NBC reporter in front of the president of South Africa and the other delegation from South Africa. This whole site was humiliating. Play this clip. Okay. Mr. President, the Pentagon announced it would be accepting a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One. What are you talking about? We know. What are you talking about?

You know, you need to get out of here. What does this have to do with the Qatari jet? They're giving the United States Air Force a jet, okay? And it's a great thing. We're talking about a lot of other things. It's NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw. You are a real, you know, you're a terrible reporter. Number one, you don't have what it takes to be a reporter. You're not smart enough. But for you to go into a subject about a jet that was given to the United States Air Force, which is a

very nice thing. They also gave $5.1 trillion worth of investment in addition to the jet. Go back. You ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be investigated. They are so terrible the way you run that network. And you're a disgrace. No more questions from you. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead, talk about that. His name is Peter something. He's a terrible report.

Quiet, quiet, quiet. I mean, the United States is really just looking so clownish to the international community right now. And no offense to clowns with things like this. So then Donald Trump starts taking out a series of articles to spread the lie that there is a genocide in South Africa against the white Afrikaner farmers. And then the president of South Africa is there also with the white agriculture minister, who also knows that there is not a genocide against the white farmers in South Africa but Donald Trump keeps pulling these like conspiracy-laden articles here watch what he does play this clip to do about the situation I don't know these are articles over the last few days. Death of people. Death. Death.

Death. Horrible death. Death. I don't know. White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws. And this is all. I mean, I'll give these to you. So when you when you say, what would I like to do? I don't know what to do. Look at this. White South African couples say that they were attacked violently. Well, I could do that.

Look, here's burial sites all over the place. They're all these are all white farmers that are being buried. And he asks about a jet that was given. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. You know, you are so bad. You're such a bad reporter. And then there's more of Donald Trump blowing up at and attacking an NBC reporter

and calling the NBC reporter a jerk. Like you can see Trump's face turn like bright orange as well. Here, play this clip. Talk about it. And I didn't know we'd get involved here, but I will say this, that if the news wasn't fake like NBC, which is fake news, totally one of the worst ABC, NBC, CBS, horrible. But if they weren't fake news like this jerk that we have here, if we had real reporters, they'd be covering it. But the fake news in this country doesn't talk about that. So then the reporters keep asking Donald Trump and you have international reporters,

they're reporters from South Africa and others saying to Donald Trump, what will it take to convince you that there is not a genocide against white Afrikaners and white farmers in South Africa? I mean, you literally have the white agriculture minister who's not from President Ramaphosa's party here saying that there isn't one. What's it going to take? Here, play this clip. What would it take for you to be convinced that there's no white genocide in South Africa? Well, I can answer that for Chris. I'd rather have him answer. So then Donald Trump has a video that he's made or that his regime has made to further spread the lies that there's burial sites

for this genocide that is not taking place. And you have the president of South Africa, Ramaphosa, sitting there saying, what is it? What are you showing me? I'm the president of South Africa. I don't know what the hell you're talking about here. Watch this. Now, this is very bad. These are the these are burial sites right here.

Burial sites. Over a thousand of white farmers and those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there's approximately a thousand of them. They're all white farmers, the family of white farmers. And those cars aren't driving. They're stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed. And it's a terrible sight. I've never seen anything like it. Both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people were all killed.

Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? No. I'd like to know where that is because this I've never seen. Okay. I mean, it's in South Africa. So then President Ramaphosa of South Africa tells Donald Trump, he goes, I can assure you that if there was an Afrikaner farmer genocide. The three white Afrikaner and other white agriculture ministers and opposition party leaders who are here in the Oval Office from South Africa right now, Donald, they would tell you they're standing here right now. Here, watch this moment here. Play this clip. It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here.

When we have talks between us at a quiet table, it will take President Trump to listen to them. I'm not going to be repeating what I've been saying. I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. He would not be with me. So it'll take him,

President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspective. That is the answer to your question. President Trump, we have thousands of stories talking about it. We have documentaries. We have news stories. Is Natalie here?

Somebody here to turn that? I could show you a couple of things. It has to be responded to yeah sure let me see the articles please if you would and turn excuse me turn the lights down so then you have marjorie taylor green's boyfriend is in the oval office and he's one of the people who asked these questions remember he was the guy who attacked zielinski and said why weren't you why aren't you wearing a suit? Is what Glenn said.

So here, Brian Glenn asked this ridiculous question. But then President Ramaphusa of South Africa says, why don't I? Why don't I direct this question to the agriculture minister who's white, who's here? He'll he'll answer this question. He's from the opposition. He's part of my cabinet here let him answer the question watch this clip numbers of people that want to leave south africa because they feel they're going to be dead very soon yes brian if i can just ask you a question 72 percent

of farmers in your country are white if they flee do you feel that maybe the economy could collapse? You may not have a gap to fill those people that need to replace those farmers. You know, I'd like my Minister of Agriculture, who is white, who comes from an opposition party to mine, who has joined my government at my invitation to address this very issue, including the question that you've just raised. John? Thank you very much, Mr. President. Mr. President, thank you for welcoming us to

the White House. I would say we have a real safety problem in South Africa. I don't think anyone wants to candy coat that. And it requires a lot of effort to get on top of it. It's going to require more policing resources. It's going to require different strategy to be able to deal with it. But certainly the majority of South Africa's commercial and smallholder farmers

really do want to stay in South Africa and make it work. And I've just come from the largest agricultural show in the southern hemisphere with organized agriculture and farmers, and the majority want to stay. But they too there have a memorial to those who've died as a result of farm attacks and as the Minister of Agriculture it is something that I'm particularly exercised with my colleagues of police and my colleagues in the justice cluster to stop making farm attacks and stock theft a priority crime and it affects all farmers in South Africa particularly stock theft, a priority crime. And it affects all farmers in South Africa,

particularly stock theft has a disproportionate effect on small black farmers. Then Donald Trump mentions that Elon is from South Africa. Today, I have many friends from South Africa, but many of those friends are, or they can't go back. I have, Elon is from South Africa. I don't wanna get Elon involved. That's all I have to do, get him into another thing. But Elon happens to be from South Africa. This is what Elon wanted. He actually came here on a different subject, sending rockets to Mars, okay?

He likes that better. He likes that subject better. That's right. But Elon is from South Africa, and I't want to talk to him about that. I don't want to. I don't think it's fair to him. More of Donald Trump attacking NBC. Let's play it.

Any questions? Mr. President, you welcome the white Afrikaner refugees here. Can you explain to Americans why it's appropriate to welcome white Afrikaners here when other refugees like Afghans, Venezuelans, Haitians have all had their protective status revoked. Well, this is a group, NBC, that is truly fake news. They ask a lot of questions in a very pointed way. They're not questions, they're statements. Then Donald Trump randomly thinks that it's a good idea to attack the new york attorney general letitia james

in this oval office meeting with the president of south africa very much let me get your thoughts on letitia james director pulte according to him letitia james says that the alleged mortgage fraud was simply a mistake i want to get your thoughts on that. She put down that her father was her husband in the order, and this is very similar to, I guess, the false attacks that have on here. Well, I don't know what it is currently, but Letitia James, who is the Attorney General of New York State, it seemed, I'm not involved in that at all. I know it's being handled by various groups, I guess,

but it's major fraud, mortgage documents, and fraudulent everything. I think she said the father was her husband, which she had to have a husband. So she chose her father, and she put it down, and she had, didn't she sign in Virginia yet? She said she lived in Virginia. She's the New York State Attorney General.

She did that for tax reasons so she could take advantage of taxes. And she had the wrong number of units. She had a much different number, which wouldn't have allowed her to qualify and scam the government. So I don't know. I think she's very bad for New York, but I really don't know too much about it.

But I appreciate the question. Thank you very much. And then you have some of the other ministers there with President Ramaphosa explaining, look, we have too many deaths in general in South Africa. We have gang violence in South Africa, the way you have gang violence in the United States. And it's not specifically gang violence targeted South Africa the way you have gang violence in the United States. And it's not specifically gang violence targeted at white people. There's a lot of black farmers who are targeted as well.

I mean, there's violence. So we would like to have the support from the United States and from the international community to help as well. Here, play this clip. And look how he's changed right we have too many deaths but it's across the board it's not only white farmers it's across the board and we need technological help we need starlink at every little police station. We need drones. I actually got drones donated for the peace parks to stop elephant and rhino poaching.

And his predecessor stopped the importation because he said the United States would spy on us. I mean, US SpaceX the ridicule so if we can if you can help us remember sir you and I lived in New York in the 70s we never thought New York could be what it became two commissioners a tough mayor we need your help to stop this awful killing but it's across the board you know and as i watch this disaster in the oval office unfold i just think about what's going on in beijing right now where xi jinping must have the biggest smile on his face and think about how the bricks block is going to be strengthened how america looks so unreliable and weird to

the international community. It looks like a pariah regime, like a Kim Jong-un-like regime with Donald Trump, orange-faced, exploding at reporters, holding up weird articles, and we're just speeding up the rise of China. It's a ridiculous, it's objectively, no matter what political party you're from, you should look at this and go, what in the world just happened here? We're going to cover it every step of the way in the Midas Touch Network. Now hit subscribe and help us get to 5 million subscribers. Love this video? Continue the conversation by following us on Instagram, at Midas Touch, and help us

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