“At that point I was seated very nicely. I was beginning to get into a groove of interacting with this man, and I suddenly hear him say, ‘dim the lights.” Some people have said this was an ambush. I was bemused. I was there thinking what is happening?”
— South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, quoted by Bloomberg, laughing off President Trump’s Oval Office ambush.
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