'Elon Happens To Be From South Africa': Trump Shouts Out To Tesla CEO During Meeting With Ramaphosa

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In his Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President Trump gave a shoutout to Elon Musk.

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00:00What can South Africa do?

00:04What concessions would you like to see them make to improve relations with the United States?

00:09Then I have one more for President Ramaphosa afterwards.

00:12Well, you know, we just spoke about, I got them a very, very complex machine, 150 of them.

00:18I was asked by the President if it could help, and I did that.

00:23And, you know, I have great feeling for all countries.

00:26Look, I deal with all countries, but I have a great feeling for South Africa because I have friends.

00:31I have a couple of friends, a few friends here today.

00:34I have many friends from South Africa, but many of those friends are, they can't go back.

00:41I have, Elon is from South Africa.

00:43I don't want to get Elon involved.

00:45That's all I have to do, get him into another thing.

00:48But Elon happens to be from South Africa.

00:51This is what Elon wanted.

00:53He actually came here on a different subject, sending rockets to Mars.

00:57Okay?

00:58He likes that better.

00:59He likes that subject better.

01:00That's right.

01:01But Elon is from South Africa, and I don't want to talk to him about that.

01:04I don't want to, I don't think it's fair to him.

01:06That's right.

01:07But I will say that people are fleeing South Africa for their own safety.

01:13Their land is being confiscated, and in many cases they're being killed.

01:17And that scene of, you see how many crosses they have.

01:21Those crosses, that's a dead person in every one of them.

01:24And those trucks or cars are paying their respects to all of those dead people on a Sunday morning.

01:30That's a rough, that's a rough thing to explain away.

01:34And the problem we have, and the way, you know, a correct and a fair media exposes things.

01:44But we have a very corrupt media.

01:47They won't even report this.

01:49If this were the other way around, it would be the biggest story.

01:52Now, I will say, apartheid, terrible.

01:54That was the biggest story.

01:55That was reported all the time.

01:57This is sort of the opposite of apartheid.

02:00What's happening now is never reported.

02:03Nobody knows about it.

02:04All we know is we're being inundated with people, with white farmers from South Africa.

02:10And it's a big problem.

02:13Marco Rubio was telling me he's never seen anything like it.

02:16The numbers of people that want to leave South Africa because they feel they're going to be dead very soon.

02:21Yes, please.

02:23You know.

02:24It's a tough one.

02:25That's true again.

02:26That's true.

02:27That's true.

02:28Not more Jaguar.

02:42You know.

02:43Nope.

02:44I know he's really tense.

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