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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(134,823 posts)
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:47 PM Yesterday

World Leader Reveals He Was Stunned by 'Truly Uninformed' Trump

The president of South Africa has revealed how shocked he was by Donald Trump’s “racist” views when he met the U.S. leader in person last year.

“I just thought that he is so uninformed, truly uninformed,” Cyril Ramaphosa told the New York Times on Thursday.

“I realized that he is looking at South Africa through a completely, sort of, foggy lens, without realizing the real, real harm that apartheid did,” he added. “In my view, he was just dismissive.”

Ramaphosa was a close confidant of President Nelson Mandela, who fought for almost half a century to liberate Black South Africans from apartheid. Trump has repeatedly pushed far-right conspiracy theories about an ongoing “white genocide” in South Africa under Ramaphosa’s leadership.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/world-leader-reveals-stunned-truly-154657290.html

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World Leader Reveals He Was Stunned by 'Truly Uninformed' Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP
For centuries the whites have claimed dark skinned people were ignorant savages. Turbineguy Yesterday #1
Rump is totally devoid of intelligence and a racist to boot... wcmagumba Yesterday #2
Well, we're not sending them our best people. We're sending them multiply-convicted felons. eppur_se_muova Yesterday #3
Is there any chance that those cankles might explode and Satan will bleed out? OGBuzz Yesterday #7
Hope springs eternal.... n/t lastlib 10 hrs ago #14
Just as long as Trump bleeds out, too. Aristus 4 hrs ago #23
Nice! Racism redux BaronChocula 22 hrs ago #10
Trump is a lifelong racist who practiced his own brand of Apartheid Tanuki Yesterday #4
The insular president who appeals to insular-minded Americans. Baitball Blogger Yesterday #5
Hey World Leaders, we told ya!!!!!! WarGamer Yesterday #6
The entire Planet knows he's a MORON and yet the Deplorable horde NoMoreRepugs 23 hrs ago #8
I'm stunned that anyone is still stunned by anything he does. I always expect the worst from him. live love laugh 23 hrs ago #9
You are never disappointed are you? BattleRow 9 hrs ago #15
When another scandal-ridden gazillionaire calls you out BaronChocula 22 hrs ago #11
I doubt he knew radical noodle 12 hrs ago #12
Welcome to our world. Martin68 11 hrs ago #13
Poor guy having to deal with that hateful slug wolfie001 8 hrs ago #16
We'll never be stunned by Chump's stupidity, since we see it every day FakeNoose 8 hrs ago #17
Any world leader Trump has encountered knows he is totally ignorant of world history, economic policy, etc., etc. Lonestarblue 7 hrs ago #18
I'm sure some think it must be an act, has to be, nobody's that stupid. betsuni 6 hrs ago #19
"Is she a phoney or a real phoney?" BigmanPigman 2 hrs ago #25
When will MAGAts get the message? Aussie105 6 hrs ago #20
Trump has nothing between his two ears stage left 5 hrs ago #21
Yeeeaah... Foggy lens.. . . . . Half-step 5 hrs ago #22
In reality popsdenver 3 hrs ago #24
Dump knows he's racist JBTaurus83 1 hr ago #26

Turbineguy

(39,962 posts)
1. For centuries the whites have claimed dark skinned people were ignorant savages.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:51 PM
Yesterday

And then you meet Trump.

wcmagumba

(6,021 posts)
2. Rump is totally devoid of intelligence and a racist to boot...
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:52 PM
Yesterday

The Magas have ruined the good reputation (if we ever had one) of America...

eppur_se_muova

(41,666 posts)
3. Well, we're not sending them our best people. We're sending them multiply-convicted felons.
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:55 PM
Yesterday

With cankles like cantaloupes.

Aristus

(72,038 posts)
23. Just as long as Trump bleeds out, too.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 05:37 PM
4 hrs ago

I mean, he is evil, but not as evil as Trump.

BaronChocula

(4,413 posts)
10. Nice! Racism redux
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 11:45 PM
22 hrs ago

Going back to Stenchwad Steve King of Iowa with the legs like cantaloupes.

Tanuki

(16,404 posts)
4. Trump is a lifelong racist who practiced his own brand of Apartheid
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 09:59 PM
Yesterday

in his family real estate business.
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/02/trump-fbi-files-discrimination-case-235067

"The FBI has released nearly 400 pages of records on an investigation the bureau conducted in the 1970s into alleged racial discrimination in the rental of apartments from President Donald Trump's real estate company.

The files detail dozens of interviews the bureau conducted with Trump building tenants, management and employees, seeking indications that minority tenants were steered away from housing complexes.

Most of those interviewed said they were not aware of any discrimination. However, some of the records recount the stories of black rental applicants who said they were told no apartments were available, while whites sent to check on the same apartments were offered leases.
....
A supervisor "told me that if a black person came to 2650 Ocean Parkway and inquired about an apartment for rent, and he, that is [redacted] was not there at the time, that I should tell him that the rent was twice as much as it really was, in order that he could not afford the apartment," the ex-doorman said.".... (more)

NoMoreRepugs

(11,967 posts)
8. The entire Planet knows he's a MORON and yet the Deplorable horde
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 10:51 PM
23 hrs ago

thinks he’s some sort of godking. Sad.

radical noodle

(10,562 posts)
12. I doubt he knew
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:08 AM
12 hrs ago

South Africa is a country until recently and if he did, he certainly didn't know their history. I'd bet whatever he thinks he knows came straight from Musk.

Lonestarblue

(13,433 posts)
18. Any world leader Trump has encountered knows he is totally ignorant of world history, economic policy, etc., etc.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:20 PM
7 hrs ago

Trump's only skill is knowing how to manipulate people and threaten them with dozens of lawsuits if they don't do what he wants. Had he not inherited many millions of dollars, he would most likely be a retired nonentity today.

betsuni

(28,981 posts)
19. I'm sure some think it must be an act, has to be, nobody's that stupid.
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:44 PM
6 hrs ago

The whole thing -- costume, makeup, hair, acting -- is so over-the-top exaggerated, a cartoon, that it can't be real. But it is! He's a phony, but he's a real phony.

BigmanPigman

(54,988 posts)
25. "Is she a phoney or a real phoney?"
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 08:32 PM
2 hrs ago
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1:19 time stamp

I remeber that line from Breakfast At Tiffany's. Classic!

Aussie105

(7,813 posts)
20. When will MAGAts get the message?
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 03:51 PM
6 hrs ago

Here am I half way around the world, watching the global stock markets do a major shrinkage.

Here am I half way around the world, and Trump's mismanagement of just about everything has cost me AU $5K in my retirement funds.
And that is just over the last few days, with possibly worse to come.

What chance does anyone in the middle of it, Ground Zero America, have of not seeing that?

When will MAGAts get the message, Trump's ham-fisted administration isn't good for them?

stage left

(3,269 posts)
21. Trump has nothing between his two ears
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 05:29 PM
5 hrs ago

both of which appear to be perfect. My congratulations to the plastic surgeon.

popsdenver

(2,122 posts)
24. In reality
Fri Mar 6, 2026, 07:12 PM
3 hrs ago

he shouldn't be concerned, or even meeting with Trump. He should be concerning himself, full time, about Putin coming after controlling his country............

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