South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said he was “bemused” by his encounter with President Trump at the White House earlier this month, laughing off the confrontational moment some have characterized as an ambush.

During Ramaphosa’s visit in the Oval Office, Trump at one point called for the lights to be dimmed so he could play a video that he used to back up claims of genocide against white South Africans.

"When I came in, I saw the room going a bit dark. They darkened the room. And for a moment I wondered, what is this? It's happening to me again?” Ramaphosa told the Sustainable Infrastructure Development Symposium in Cape Town, according to SABC video footage, in apparent reference to dimmed lights at the venue. The remark drew laughter from the audience.

“Because at that moment, we were seated very nicely, and I was beginning to get into a groove of interacting … with this man," he continued,........

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