{"id":198800,"date":"2025-05-25T19:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-trump-malema-ramaphosa-and-the-oval-office-grill\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T19:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T17:10:51","slug":"south-africa-trump-malema-ramaphosa-and-the-oval-office-grill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/south-africa-trump-malema-ramaphosa-and-the-oval-office-grill\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Trump, Malema, Ramaphosa and the Oval Office Grill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>This ritual of inviting foreign leaders to the Oval office and belittling and denigrating them must stop.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"69\"><strong>Trump literally ambushed Ramaphosa, lectured him, bullied him, spoke down at him, accused his government and people of heinous crimes, kept interrupting him when he attempted to speak, mocked his role as a peacemaker in the Ukraine\/Russia conflict, and sought to utterly humiliate him&#8230; To behave in this unacceptable manner and indulge in such mendacious falsehood is below any president, let&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505250151.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This ritual of inviting foreign leaders to the Oval office and belittling and denigrating them must stop. Trump literally ambushed Ramaphosa, lectured him, bullied him, spoke down at him, accused his government and people of heinous crimes, kept interrupting him when he attempted to speak, mocked his role as a peacemaker in the Ukraine\/Russia conflict, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670370:c04d27c9f19b35d1f806235a695868a3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,51413,1739,257,393,8089,51444,8878,5069,254,6264],"class_list":["post-198800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-grill","tag-malema","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-office","tag-oval","tag-ramaphosa","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670370:c04d27c9f19b35d1f806235a695868a3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}