Legacy media outlets erupted in coordinated outrage following a bold and unexpected move by President Donald Trump during a White House meeting Wednesday with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

According to Fox News, President Trump stunned the South African delegation by presenting a multi-minute video that exposed the brutal reality facing white farmers in South Africa—a crisis that has long been ignored by the mainstream press.

Rather than address the substance of the issue, liberal media figures rushed to condemn the presentation, with many parroting the same talking point: Trump had “ambushed” Ramaphosa.

ABC’s David Muir declared that the President was “ambushing the president of South Africa,” a line echoed almost word-for-word by a CNN anchor. In total, at least seven mainstream news anchors repeated the “ambush” narrative nearly verbatim, according to a viral clip shared on X by video producer Western Lensman.

In response, Western Lensman dubbed the term “ambush” the “Fake News Word of the Day,” drawing attention to the uniformity in coverage across networks including CNN, ABC, MSNBC, and CBS News.

The media’s focus on the optics of the meeting, rather than the atrocities showcased in the footage, has drawn criticism from viewers demanding coverage of the ongoing attacks on white farmers—an issue that has been largely suppressed by the very outlets decrying Trump’s actions.

The video Trump played for Ramaphosa included disturbing imagery: footage of South African political leaders chanting “Kill the Boer,” a historical term for white farmers, as well as rows of white crosses symbolizing those murdered during farm invasions.

“Now this is very bad. These are burial sites right here. Burial sites — over a thousand — of white farmers,” President Trump said during the exchange, as reported by Fox News.

“And those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there is approximately a thousand of them,” he continued.

“They’re all white farmers. The family of white farmers. And those cars aren’t, driving, they are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed,” the President added.

“And it’s a terrible sight. I’ve never seen anything like it. On both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people are all killed.”

While President Trump shined a light on a targeted and horrific wave of violence that deserves global attention, the media instead chose to nitpick the setting and tone of his intervention—revealing, yet again, where their true priorities lie.

As Trump continues to use his platform to spotlight issues that corporate media would rather bury, Wednesday's exchange serves as another example of a Commander-in-Chief unafraid to confront uncomfortable truths—no matter how much the media squirms.