President Donald Trump is hosting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for White House talks at a moment when relations between the two countries are at a nadir. Trump has been laying into South African officials on widely rejected charges of allowing a “genocide” against minority white farmers. South African officials have strongly pushed back against Trump’s accusation and Ramaphosa sought the meeting to set the record straight and salvage his country’s relationship with the United States. Ramaphosa was greeted by Trump as he arrived shortly at the White House for a lunch and Oval Office talks with Trump.