WHERE WAS TRUMP? Ambushing Ramaphosa By Austin Isikhuemen

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In a week of stark diplomatic theater, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa found himself in the eye of a storm during a high-profile visit to Washington. What was meant to be a step toward rebuilding strained relations with the United States under Donald Trump’s administration instead became a global spectacle of confrontation, aired like a public performance review, with the world watching.

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Back home, Ramaphosa’s measured demeanor earned him praise for his composure, even as critics questioned his restraint in the face of Trump’s provocations. The controversy ignited fierce debate online, drawing reactions from across the political spectrum and reawakening long-standing tensions about race, colonialism, and global power dynamics.

Amid the digital uproar, commentator and poet Austin Isikhuemen offers a searing interpretation of the moment, delving deep into history, hypocrisy, and the ongoing legacy of empire.

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His poem, “Where Was Trump? Ambushing Ramaphosa,” is not merely about a diplomatic spat, but a wider interrogation of silence, complicity, and selective outrage. Here is the full poem below:

The Boers, the ancestors of yore

Came from where they came from

Looking for succour and clement milieu

Where was Trump?

Birthed in Africa’s Southern tip

Drove out and killed the natives

Brave Shaka Zulu gave them hell

But gun advantage trumped assegais

Apparthiedom, the most inhuman

Separated God’s own children

 Used skin colour as evil sort code

Where was Trump?

Didn’t Trump’s own America

The “bastion of democracy” indeed

The one they call God’s own country

“Constructively” engage the oppressors?

Melanin decided who you could love

Where you lived and worked

Whether you scavenged or died

Where was Trump?

Just a whimper from Malema

Calling for justice on their lands

Long seized by apartheid priests

Buzzard berserk in AmerIndian territory

Killing is evil, so is lying with aplomb!

Coating racist lies in such gaudy presentation?

Passing patriot Malema off as SA President?

Where is Trump headed?

Lost to him the import of hospitality

Unaware of the dictates of diplomacy

Not even etiquette and good manners?

Egged on by a vain Vice full of vice

Great that Cyril serenaded Godot well

With that shot aboard the gift aircraft

The world aghast at the new bully game

Trump achieved what with this buffoonery?

Open same doors to Ukrainians

Faced with annihilation at home

To Borno IDPs killed daily by Boko Haramites

Not white enough or the sin of being black?

 22nd May, 2025.

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