Trump rips into NBC news during showdown with ‘controversial’ South African President Cyril Ramaphosa: Live updates

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House

President Donald Trump took a swipe at NBC News when asked by the network’s Peter Alexander why the U.S. will welcome white South Africans but not Afghan and Venezuelan refugees.

‘Well, this is a group, NBC, that is truly fake news,’ Trump replied, seated alongside South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office on Wednesday.

Trump continued, ‘We’ve had tremendous complaints about Africa, about other countries too, from people.’

‘They say, there’s a lot of bad things going on in Africa and that’s what we’re going to be discussing today,’ the U.S. president continued.

President Donald Trump held up a printout of a Daily Mail report on why white Africans are fleeing the country.

The file details how 25,000 white farmers have left South Africa to go to the United States.

They have been accused of endemic racism by favoring the majority black population against people with European ancestry.

Some will never return to the ‘Rainbow Nation’, which is racked by rising numbers of murders and rapes, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world for anyone, of any skin color, to live, the report states.

Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a White House Oval Office meeting about the ongoing genocide and also showed him a video of ‘mass graves.’

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent at the White House

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrived at the White House Wednesday at little past nooon for his meeting with President Donald Trump.

Trump stood outside the West Wing to greet Ramaphosa, who has come to try and turn around the relationship with the current administration.

South African-born billionaire and DOGE leader Elon Musk has criticized Ramaphosa’s administration for pursuing anti-white policies.

In turn, Trump has canceled aid to the country, expelled the South African ambassador and offered refuge to white minority Afrikaners.

Ramaphosa hopes to be able to turn things around by offering Trump a trade deal and investment opportunities, Reuters reported.

Online critics are lambasting Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for flubbing the definition of the Latin legal term ‘Habeas Corpus’ at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.

Even worse, however, is that the DHS head provided a completely inaccurate definition for the phrase.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Migrants deported to South Sudan by Donald Trump include murderers and sexual abusers, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The latest deportations come as a federal judge ruled U.S. officials must retain custody and control of the migrants in case he orders in the future that their removals were unlawful.

The Daily Mail can now reveal that the migrants sent to East African country include at least five murderers and a pedophile.

Only one is a citizen of South Sudan, while the others are from Cuba, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and Laos.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

Elon Musk will attend President Donald Trump’s Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Musk, who was born in South Africa, is a critic of Ramaphosa’s government and spread conspiracy theories that the country is conducting a ‘genocide’ against white farmers and has ‘racist land laws.’

Ramaphosa has denied he’s pursing anti-white policies.

Also attending the meeting will be Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law Massad Boulos, who serves as the president’s senior advisor for Africa.

Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are also scheduled to attend.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Congressman Gerry Connolly died at the age of 75 on Wednesday morning.

The Virginia Democrat ‘passed away peacefully at his home,’ according to a  statement from his family.

Rep. Connolly announced he was diagnosed with esophageal cancer just days after the 2024 election in November.

‘The sun is setting on my time in public service,’ he said in a statement in April when revealing his cancer had returned.

By Emily Goodin, senior White House correspondent

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will meet with President Donald Trump later Wednesday at a time the president’s MAGA supporters are fixated on South Africa’s racial politics.

Trump, during the sitdown in the Oval Office, will press Ramaphosa to roll back his country’s racial equity laws and to do more to protect Afrikaners, a white ethnic minority, the New York Times reported.

The president has taken aggressive action against South Africa, including cutting all foreign aid, expelling its ambassador, calling for the upcoming G20 meeting to be moved from there to another country, and welcoming white South Africans to the U.S. as refugees.

The U.S. is South Africa’s second biggest trading partner after China. Ramaphosa will offer Trump a trade deal and also will discuss opportunities for Tesla and Starlink, companies owned by Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa and has accused Ramaphosa of pursuing anti-white policies.

President Donald Trump has issued an astonishing defense of Joe Biden, claiming a shadowy network of advisors took advantage of the 82-year-old’s cognitive decline in the White House and wreaked havoc on the country.

Trump campaigned with a tough-on-borders approach, vowing to embark on the largest mass deportation scheme the United States has ever seen and slamming the Democrats for opening the flood-gates during their time in office.

He has consistently targeted Biden for his lack of action while in the Oval Office.

According to a new Marquette Law School poll, Trump is underwater on several major issues.

He is excelling in one particular area – the border – with a 12-point jump in his favor.

But he’s struggling on the economy, foreign policy and world conflicts including the Russia-Ukraine war.

He’s at overall approval rating of 46 percent, according to the Marquette survey.

That’s four points behind Daily Mail/JL Partner’s exclusive poll finding the president at 50 percent approval coming off his big Middle East trip.

Another recent poll out by Reuters has him at his lowest-ever approval at 42 percent.