An image Donald Trump held up in the Oval Office on Wednesday as evidence of violence against white South African farmers actually showed people in an entirely different country. In a wild Oval Office meeting,

President Trump made a series of claims about the killing of white farmers in South Africa, some of which are demonstrably false.

Donald Trump’s haranguing of Cyril Ramaphosa at the Oval Office wasn’t wholly unexpected — the visiting leader had plenty of forewarning of the US president’s animosity toward his administration.