Trump Gets Irritated By African Leader And Abruptly Cuts Him Off

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During his meeting with African leaders at the White House on Wednesday, President Trump got irritated by Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani.

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00:00over here be nice if you could oh there it is you could speak to the you don't want to turn your

00:05head so much i do it a lot it's not pleasant but perhaps we could start with you please

00:13thank you very much

00:15great gentleman by the way

00:21thank you for giving me the floor mr president

00:28first of all i would like to thank you thank you mr president

00:40for inviting us to come here today

00:45i'm president gazwani president of the islamic republic of mauritania

00:53thank you mr president

00:57for this invitation

01:00and the invitation

01:05you sent to the other colleagues

01:06this is a very strong message from you

01:10and we are receiving this message

01:13very well this is a message of interest

01:18that you're sending to us and it's a message that you're sending to the whole of africa

01:23all of this is generous on your part we are receiving this and we accept this message from you

01:32before i talk about my country

01:42i would like to

01:46let you know that we are

01:50delighted to see president trump's commitment

01:55to our continent

01:58mr president

01:59in the short time you've been back in office the last few months

02:06you came to the rescue

02:10for peace

02:12you did it in asia

02:13with pakistan and india

02:15the war sort of started and if it had gone on

02:22the consequences could have been a real disaster

02:26since the beginning

02:32you've been doing a great deal of work

02:36on the war in europe that is the conflict between russia and ukraine

02:44you

02:45a venir rapid ma

02:47rush

02:48to africa

02:49to resolve

02:51a long-standing problem

02:54lots of efforts

02:56had been made

02:57by many heads of states

03:00but

03:02your will

03:04made it possible

03:07for this agreement to be signed

03:09and now

03:10this conflict is behind us

03:13you are currently

03:15working

03:16with a great deal of enthusiasm

03:19and you're also working on the middle east

03:25you're paying a great deal of attention to the middle east

03:27we all

03:28know

03:29how far back this conflict goes

03:32it is a conflict

03:34that is about 80 years old

03:3770 years

03:40but it is also a war

03:42that has been raging for a year and a half

03:45and you've also talked about the human role

03:49many people have died in this conflict

03:52of course

04:00you also stopped

04:02the war between iran and israel

04:07that could have been

04:09a real disaster for the region

04:10it's a sensitive region

04:12to start with

04:14your work

04:17in favor of peace

04:19has been

04:20tremendous

04:21and

04:22we are also very

04:24interested

04:26in supporting peace

04:28peace

04:29in the same way

04:31when there is no peace

04:32like you said earlier

04:33today

04:35when there is no peace

04:37a lot of other things are lacking

04:39when there is no peace

04:41it is difficult to have prosperity

04:45it is difficult to have calm

04:49to have

04:50a sense of quietness

04:53it is hard to sleep

04:54it is hard to go about your business

04:56every day

04:57you understand that well

04:58Mr. President

04:59and you are working on this

05:00so thank you

05:01thank you very much

05:03I appreciate it

05:04I am the president of Mauritania

05:11Mauritania is a small country

05:19depending on the criteria you apply

05:25if you look at the number of people who live in Mauritania

05:31it is a small country because we have about 5 million people in Mauritania

05:37we might just be a little bit over 5 million

05:40it is a small country also

05:42in the sense that

05:45what influence it has throughout the world

05:49it is not like the US, Mr. President

05:52internationally

05:56we understand that our weight

06:00our influence is not that great

06:02and we have no complex about this

06:07it is also a small country

06:11because of our level of prosperity

06:14we are not a very prosperous country

06:17we have many problems related to the well-being of our population

06:21but it is also a great country

06:23a big country

06:24a big country

06:25in other ways

06:30Mauritania

06:31is a great country

06:33in the sense of its strategic position

06:35it is on the Atlantic coast

06:38which makes it a neighbor to the US

06:41it is what unites

06:44North Africa

06:46Africa

06:47and Sub-Saharan Africa

06:49are what links the two

06:51that is its strategic position

06:53but also in terms of resources

06:56we have a great deal of resources

06:58many, many resources

07:00and we have a lot of opportunities to offer

07:04in terms of investment

07:05we have minerals

07:09rare earths

07:12rare minerals

07:15we have manganese

07:18we have uranium

07:20and we have

07:22a good inclination that we have lithium and other minerals

07:28where the second largest producer

07:30for the last 60 years

07:31in Africa

07:32of iron

07:33iron ore

07:34we produce

07:35a lot

07:37and we have a lot of resources

07:41in our seawaters

07:44so a lot of fishing

07:45and what not

07:46I don't want to spend too much time on this

07:48we have to go

07:50but I appreciate it very much

07:53I appreciate it

07:55maybe we are going to have to go a little bit quicker than this

07:57because we have

07:58a whole schedule

07:59if I could just say

08:01it's you know

08:02your name and your country

08:04would be great

08:05thank you please

08:07Thank you Mr. President

08:13and welcome everything

08:17for us the second time

08:18here to come with us

08:20as a guest

08:22the first time we had that meeting

08:25on this ground

08:27for the second time

08:29in Guinea-de-Sau

08:31and I'm going to be along

08:32but I will not

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08:44but I will not

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