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Make diplomacy great again
Mail & Guardian
|May 23, 2025
"Trump ambushes South African president," read The Guardian's lead headline on Wednesday night.
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The attack was undoubtedly premeditated. But an ambush implies an element of surprise. Nothing about the White House meeting would have been shocking to anyone who has followed either the irrational line of genocide rhetoric, or watched how US President Donald Trump pounced on Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
It's now the modus operandi of the Oval Office theatre: the visitor is flayed in front of the press cameras, softened up before being dragged behind closed doors for the real discussions.
The lights dimmed, a ready-to-go compilation of Kill the Boer echoed between the garish gold trimmings. Trump produced a stack of article printouts to accentuate the point. "Death, death, death," he pronounced.
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