Lemon LIVE at 5 | Trump Meets Ramaphosa…And Humiliates Us All (Again) - May 21st, 2025
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So glad that you could be with us this evening for Lemon Live at 5. Thank you so much. Look, I really appreciate you guys joining us. And oh my gosh, I don't really know what to say here. Sorry, we're a little bit late. There's technical difficulties. And I don't know what's going on, but we'll figure it out. Where are you guys streaming from? Let me know. I want to get right to it, though, because I don't know if you saw what happened in the Oval Office today. I'm embarrassed. I am embarrassed. And I love being an American, but I am embarrassed. It is just unbelievable that we have a president that doesn't even understand anything, that plays propaganda videos in the office, that embarrasses us in front of foreign leaders, that it is a mess.
I think we witnessed the single most racist, the single most deranged, the single most disgraceful conduct to ever occur inside the Oval Office. And that's saying a lot considering what happened with Vladimir Zelensky. If you thought that that meeting with Vladimir Zelensky, if you thought that was a low for this country, wait until you see what happened today. Some folks didn't see it. They were working. Donald Trump met with the South African president. Cyril Ramaphosa. And after exchanging some basic pleasantries, and I could see that President Ramaphosa was trying to be diplomatic, trying to explain to Donald Trump that he has been fed propaganda and what he is believing is propaganda. But Trump just doesn't really have the mental capacity or the will to even
I don't know, to even give credence to the fact that either maybe he's being misled by people around him or maybe he's just being a terrible racist. But first they exchanged some basic pleasantries. They launched into a rant, Donald Trump did, that was so untethered from reality that words like crazy are unhinged. They don't accurately describe what happened. Currently in the White House, we have a man who is so viciously racist that it appears that his bigotry has quite literally rotted his brain. And that he is now existing in a state of abject ignorance. An abject unreality where white people are being hunted down in the streets. An abject unreality where, quote, white genocide is taking place in Nelson Mandela's Rainbow Nation.
It's disgusting. And it's embarrassing. It's alarming. And for any of you who have heard a lot in the recent days about Joe Biden's alleged cognitive decline, this version from Donald Trump is on a whole new level. So I'm so glad that we have this person. And really, today, I want you guys to sit and listen. This is a lesson for all of us.
What happened when Trump met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office?
And I think this is a motivation to stand up against this ignorance, this bigotry, this intolerance. It's just ridiculous. Simon Allison is the co-founder of The Continent magazine and the unofficial South African correspondent for The Don Lemon Show. So, Simon, we appreciate you joining us today. And we know it's nearly midnight there in Johannesburg. So thank you for staying up late to chat with us. Thanks, Don. This felt important to talk about. Am I right to say that this is embarrassing for us? It's it's it's it's I feel like it is an American embarrassment, as I have been saying, as we have said here, it's an American embarrassment. Let me show you before you respond. This is Donald Trump in the Oval Office being asked a question about white genocide in South Africa from a reporter and then playing a video for the South African president and and just being his unhinged self.
Here it is.
What will it take for you to be convinced that there's no white genocide in South Africa? Well, I can answer that for President. I'd rather have him answer. My president will respond to you. Thank you, Mr. President. 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 around 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.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:15–3:25
2
What happened when Trump met South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office?
3:25–5:49
3
Why did Don Lemon call the meeting an international embarrassment?
5:49–20:17
4
What footage did Trump play and why is it controversial?
20:17–35:12
5
Who is Julius Malema and why did his video alarm viewers?
35:12–49:02
6
How do South African experts explain the ‘white genocide’ conspiracy claims?
49:02–1:09:33
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