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2. This exchange from the Oval Office meeting...

Reply to UpInArms (Original post)

Wed May 21, 2025, 06:04 PM

May 21

(From MSNBC, Nicolle Wallace)

- "Trump suggested that all of this tension between them could have been avoided if South Africa had just bought him an airplane."

- "I'm sorry, I don't have a plane to give you," Ramaphosa said.

- "I wish you did, okay. I would take it if your country offered the United States Air Force a plane. I would take it," Trump said.

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