New Delhi, May 28 -- There is a new spectacle in global politics, 'Trial by Trump,' where the world gets to watch live on-screen US President Donald Trump tear into the leaders of other countries. The brutal takedown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February is etched in public memory. Since that infamous meeting, foreign leaders have approached the Oval Office with caution.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa's turn came on 21 May. Just a week earlier, 59 Caucasian South Africans were taken as refugees into the US, adding fuel to a narrative pushed by Trump that Ramaphosa's government had failed to protect Caucasian farmers from what the latter alleged was a "genocide."

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