David Frum, a former speechwriter for George W. Bush, suggested President Donald Trump was testing a new White House “reality show” on Wednesday with his conspiracy-fueled remarks to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“‘Surprise the World Leader,’ where world leaders will come for prizes or else they’ll get a goat behind curtain number three if they’re on the president’s bad mood,” said Frum of the imaginary TV show during a CNN appearance.
“So we’ve had bad surprises for Zelenskyy and Ramaphosa, but maybe there’s a nice surprise for you!”
Wednesday’s Oval Office meeting between Trump and Ramaphosa has been widely described as an “ambush” by the U.S. president, who pushed unfounded claims of a “white genocide” in South Africa while flipping through printouts of alleged news stories describing attacks on white farmers in the country.
Trump, at one point in the meeting, called attention to a TV wheeled into the room before playing a video that he claimed supported the theory.
