In the elaborate setup that unfolded, Trump dimmed the lights of the Oval Office to project footage purporting to show mass graves of white farmers in South Africa who, he claimed, were victims of an ongoing genocide.
This was false. The press quickly debunked the supposed evidence that Trump offered, from inaccurate footage of a burial site to a photo that was not, in fact, from South Africa, but rather the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The president of the United States in an actual meeting with a head of state.