US President Donald Trump rejected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s argument that there’s no genocide against White Afrikaners, airing a video and showing images in the Oval Office that he said showed how they were beaten and killed.

The meeting on Wednesday appeared to fulfil the worst fears of some of Ramaphosa’s advisers that the South African leader was walking into a trap.

“Each one of those white things you see is a cross, and there’s approximately a thousand of them. They’re all white farmers,” Trump said, pointing to the video that aired on a television screen positioned to the side of the two leaders.

Ramaphosa had initially struck an upbeat tone at the meeting, calling for a reset in ties between the two countries and to advance trade. He even offered Trump a book about golf in South Africa — he said it weighed 14 kilograms — and said he had started practising the sport.

But the meeting went off the rails quickly after Ramaphosa was asked what could be done to bring Trump around.

“It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom are his good friends, like those who are here, when we have talks between us,” Ramaphosa said. He later said those calling for expropriation represented a “small minority” of the country.

In the run-up to the meeting, some of Ramaphosa advisers feared that their boss was being set up for an Oval Office humiliation similar to the one what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy experienced earlier this year when Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated him over his handling of Russia’s invasion.

The result was nearly the same: a heated exchange, in which Ramaphosa denied white South Africans were being singled out and Trump insisting that farmers were being killed.

Trump was joined in the room by his billionaire, Pretoria-born backer Elon Musk. Both have spread the conspiracy theory that the country that ended apartheid is conducting a genocide against the White minority that once ruled it. South African golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen were also in attendance.

Trump has objected to a land bill that Ramaphosa signed late last year that will make it easier for the government to expropriate private property if it’s in the public interest.

While similar to eminent domain laws in the US, the law in South Africa allows for expropriation without compensation in certain cases such as land that’s been abandoned and state-owned property not in use. For now, no land has been seized.

The South African president sought to explain the law and it’s relationship to the country’s apartheid era.

“We are completely opposed to that,” Ramaphosa said in response to a question about whether he denounced the remarks from those who appeared in the video.

Ramaphosa, a lawyer who has led South Africa since 2018, was accompanied on his trip by the agriculture minister — a White man who called claims of genocide “nonsense” — along with the trade and foreign ministers as well as billionaire Johann Rupert.

In February, Trump froze almost all aid to Pretoria, claiming it persecuted White Afrikaner farmers and took “aggressive positions” toward the US, including filling a court case in the International Court of Justice that accuses Israel of genocide.

Last week, the US granted a first batch of White Afrikaners refugee status, flying them in on a chartered plane and twice repeated the claim that they are suffering a genocide.

“We have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they’ve seen this, generally they’re white farmers, and they’re fleeing South Africa, and it’s a you know, it’s a very sad thing to see, but I hope we can have an explanation of that, because I know you don’t want that,” Trump said.

The standoff between the two nations has cast a shadow over South Africa’s presidency of the Group of 20, with Trump and his top officials shunning meetings of the bloc and rejecting calls for it to focus on addressing issues such reducing developing nations’ debt and climate change.