摘要：据美国有线电视新闻网2025年5月21日（星期三）报道，就在唐纳德·特朗普总统陪同南非总统进入椭圆形办公室前一刻，有人看到白宫助手将两台大屏幕电视推过车道，搬进西翼。来访的西里尔·拉马福萨总统几乎无法预料自己即将目睹的一幕。
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一、白宫再次上演滑稽大戏
据美国有线电视新闻网2025年5月21日（星期三）报道，就在唐纳德·特朗普总统陪同南非总统进入椭圆形办公室前一刻，有人看到白宫助手将两台大屏幕电视推过车道，搬进西翼。来访的西里尔·拉马福萨总统几乎无法预料自己即将目睹的一幕。
特朗普下令调暗灯光，对拉马福萨发动了一场“伏击”：播放了一段视频，称其为“南非白人遭受迫害和种族灭绝”这一错误说法的证据。
刚刚还在与特朗普寒暄高尔夫话题的拉马福萨震惊不已，默默观看。作为曾在结束白人少数统治谈判中担任纳尔逊·曼德拉首席谈判代表的资深外交官，拉马福萨几乎无法掩饰自己的不适。
这一幕是精心策划的：特朗普团队事先打印了多篇文章，让他在镜头前展示，称这些文章支持他所谓南非在对白人实行“种族灭绝”政策的主张。
特朗普利用此次会晤宣扬其数月来反复炒作的极端言论：南非白人农民的土地被没收、遭大规模屠杀。就在上周，59名南非白人获得白宫批准的难民身份后抵达美国。
自今年1月上任以来，特朗普毫不犹豫地将会晤变成公开表达敌意的场合。然而，这场“多媒体突袭”远超他此前在椭圆形办公室的任何表演。即便今年2月他与乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽连斯基的争吵（被一些批评者视为预设陷阱），也未动用视觉辅助工具。
一名白宫官员称，特朗普利用周三的场合揭露一个“媒体视而不见”的问题。美国有线电视新闻网已对南非对白人实行“种族灭绝”的说法展开调查，未发现任何证据支持该指控。
但特朗普称，已有“数千人”向他反映此事。尽管拉马福萨冷静地试图阐述南非国情、反驳特朗普的指控，但特朗普却不为所动。
特朗普翻看着助手为其打印的文章喃喃自语：“死亡，死亡，死亡，可怕的死亡。”现场情景清楚地表明，特朗普及其团队事先进行了周密策划，试图为毫无根据的白人受迫害论提供支撑。助手们称，他们预料到这一问题会成为椭圆形办公室会晤的核心，尤其是拉马福萨在访美前曾表示，希望消除特朗普的错误看法。
这促使白宫决定在会谈中携带相关材料并播放视频。视频中，激进反对派政客朱利叶斯·马莱马呼吁对白人农民使用暴力。视频播放后不久，白宫便在官方社交媒体账号发布了视频片段。特朗普在会谈中挥舞的文章也被助手们系统地分享到网上。
美国以所谓难民的缺人接纳南非白人农场主及其家人赴美定居
二、何罪之罪何患无辞
特朗普的盟友在网上为这场对峙叫好，认为这是总统“追究世界领导人责任”的又一范例。这种有组织的材料投放表明，特朗普及其团队早已急于利用此次会晤宣扬“迫害论”，尽管拉马福萨本希望讨论贸易和其他地缘政治议题。
无论这位南非领导人如何奉承特朗普或调整策略，比如邀请两名职业高尔夫球手加入代表团和称赞特朗普对椭圆形办公室的金色重新装修，都未能避免这场预设的“震惊”表演。
拉马福萨在白宫播放完视频后表示：“你在那些演讲中看到的内容并非南非政府的政策。南非是多党民主国家，允许人们表达观点，我们的政府政策完全、彻底反对他（激进反对派政客朱利叶斯·马莱马）所说的一切。”
特朗普对所谓南非白人受虐待的关注并非新话题；他在第一任期内就曾提及想帮助失去土地的白人农民。但在第二任期的头几个月，他公开宣扬的“压迫”和“种族灭绝”论显著升级。
白宫一方面加速处理南非荷兰语裔难民的申请，另一方面暂停其他国家的难民申请。今年早些时候，美国还冻结了对南非的援助并驱逐其大使。
马斯克要求特朗普撤消对等关税，特朗普说我不听
三、马斯克在美国对南非的政策中发挥了什么作用，是否会成为被烹的走狗？
在很多方面，特朗普对南非法律（旨在纠正种族隔离后果）的批评，与其在美国根除多元化政策的努力相呼应，这些美国政策与他所反对的南非法律一样，旨在纠正历史种族不平等。他的观点得到了南非出生的亿万富翁、特朗普的高级顾问埃隆·马斯克的支持。
马斯克虽然已基本退出美国联邦政府的改革工作，转而专注于自己的商业项目。但周三他又回到白宫参加与拉马福萨的会晤，站在一张金色沙发后观看这场充满争议的会谈。
马斯克此前曾指控南非以不符合黑人持股法律为由，阻挠其星链互联网服务公司在南非的运营。
在周三访美前，南非领导人正准备提出一项变通方案，允许马斯克的企业在南非运营。这一姿态被视为会谈前向美国政府示好的尝试。但这并未缓和气氛。当椭圆形办公室的“表演”进行时，特朗普似乎无意让马斯克发言。他说：“埃隆来自南非，我不想和他谈这个，我觉得这对他不公平。”
各种迹象再加上特朗普根本不让马斯克发言清楚地表明，马斯克在特朗普政府中的地位很可能已经走上被卸磨杀驴和狡兔死走狗烹的不归路。您认同吗？
How the White House orchestrated Trump’s Oval Office ambush of South African president. By Kevin Liptak and Kristen Holmes, CNN. Wed May 21, 2025.
Moments before President Donald Trump escorted his South African counterpart into the Oval Office on Wednesday, White House aides could be seen wheeling two large-screen televisions down the driveway and into the West Wing.
Little could have prepared President Cyril Ramaphosa for what he was about to see.
Trump ordered the lights dimmed and launched into what amounted to an ambush of his visitor, screening a video he claimed was evidence for his false suggestion that White South Africans are being subjected to persecution and “genocide.”
A shocked Ramaphosa, who had just been exchanging pleasantries with Trump about golf, watched silently. An experienced diplomat who once served as Nelson Mandela’s chief negotiator during talks to end White minority rule, Ramaphosa could barely disguise his discomfort.
The moment was an orchestrated one, with Trump’s team also having printed out articles for him to hold up in front of the cameras that he said backed up his claims of White “genocide.”
It was perhaps inevitable that Trump would use the meeting to advance the fringe claims — which he’s amplified for months — that White farmers in South Africa are having their land seized and are being killed in massive numbers. Just last week, 59 White South Africans arrived in the United States after being granted refugee status by the White House.
Since taking office in January, Trump has shown little hesitation at turning his meetings into moments for public hostility. Yet the multimedia surprise exceeded anything he has previously staged in the Oval Office. Even his shouting match with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in February, which appeared to some critics as a preplanned trap, did not come with visual aids.
A White House official said Trump was using Wednesday’s event to shed light on an issue that the administration believes the “media had turned a blind eye to.” CNN has investigated the claims of White “genocide” in South Africa and found no evidence to back them up.
However, Trump said he had heard from “thousands” of people about the issue. And despite Ramaphosa’s calm attempts to describe his country’s situation and pick apart Trump’s allegations, Trump appeared unmoved.
“Death, death, death, horrible death,” he uttered, flipping through the pages of article printouts.
As was evident as the scene was unfolding, Trump and his team had done extensive planning ahead of time to attempt to back up the unsubstantiated claims of White persecution. Aides said they had anticipated the issue would be at the heart of the Oval Office sit-down and took notice when Ramaphosa said before traveling to Washington that he hoped to disavow Trump of his misguided views.
That helped inspire the White House’s plan to come to the talks armed with materials and to play the video, which depicted the firebrand opposition politician Julius Malema making calls for violence against White farmers.
Shortly after the video finished playing, the White House had posted a copy on its official social media accounts. The articles Trump waved around during the session were systematically shared online by aides.
Trump’s allies applauded the confrontation online, seeing it as another example of the president holding world leaders accountable.
The organized rollout of the material suggested how eager Trump and his team were ahead of time to use the meeting to advance their narrative of persecution, even as Ramaphosa was hoping to discuss trade and other geopolitical issues.
No amount of flattery or calibration on the part of the South African leader — be it inviting two professional golfers to join his delegation or complementing Trump on his golden Oval Office redecoration — was enough to stave off the waiting surprise.
“What you saw in the speeches that were being made—that is not government policy. We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves,” Ramaphosa said after the video. “Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.”
Trump’s fixation on the alleged mistreatment of White South Africans is not a new obsession; he discussed wanting to help White farmers displaced from their land at points during his first term. Yet his public claims of oppression and “genocide” have significantly ramped up in the opening months of his second term.
The White House has fast-tracked the processing of Afrikaner refugees while pausing refugee applications for other nationalities. And earlier this year, the US froze aid to the country and expelled its ambassador.
In many ways, Trump’s criticism of South Africa’s laws – meant as redress after apartheid – dovetail with his efforts to eradicate diversity initiatives in the United States, which — like some of the South African laws he resents — are meant to correct historical racial disparities.
His views have been supported by the South African-born billionaire Elon Musk, who was among Trump’s top advisers in the opening months of his new administration.
Musk has largely stepped away from his work reforming the federal government to focus on his business ventures. But he returned to the White House on Wednesday for the meeting with Ramaphosa, standing behind one of the gold sofas and watching as the contentious meeting unfolded.
Musk had accused South Africa of blocking his Starlink internet service from operating because the company didn’t comport with Black ownership laws.
Ahead of Wednesday’s visit, South African government leaders were preparing to offer a workaround plan that would allow Musk’s venture to operate in South Africa. The gesture was viewed as an attempt to generate goodwill with the US administration before the talks began.
It seemed to do little to smooth things over. And when the Oval Office spectacle was underway, Trump seemed uninterested in giving Musk a speaking role.
“Elon’s from South Africa, and I don’t want to talk to him about that,” he said. “I don’t think it’s fair to him.”
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