South African-born Musk evoked by Trump during meeting with nation's leader: 'Don't want to get Elon involved'

President Donald Trump evoked Elon Musk during his Oval Office gathering with South Africa's president connected Wednesday, during talks astir the ongoing attacks achromatic farmers successful the state are facing.

Trump went backmost and distant with President Cyril Ramaphosa implicit whether what is occurring successful South Africa is so a "genocide" against achromatic farmers. At 1 point, during the conversation, a newsman asked Trump however the United States and South Africa mightiness beryllium capable to amended their relations. 

The president said that relations with South Africa are an important substance to him, noting helium has respective idiosyncratic friends who are from there, including nonrecreational golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen, who were contiguous astatine Tuesday's meeting, and Elon Musk.

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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk be a UFC 309 astatine Madison Square Garden past November. (Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC)

Unprompted, Trump added that portion Musk whitethorn beryllium a South African native, helium doesn't privation to "get [him] involved" successful the ongoing overseas diplomacy matters that played retired during Tuesday's meeting. 

"I don't privation to get Elon involved. That's each I person to do, get him into different thing," Trump said to airy laughter. "But Elon happens to beryllium from South Africa. This is what Elon wanted. He really came present connected a antithetic taxable — sending rockets to Mars — OK? He likes that better. He likes that taxable better. But Elon's from South Africa, and I don't privation to speech to him astir that. I don't deliberation it's just to him."

Musk, who was contiguous astatine the Oval Office gathering Tuesday, has been an unfastened professional of his native-born country's authorities and has described the ongoing struggle determination arsenic a "genocide."

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Unprompted, Trump evoked Elon Musk's sanction during an Oval Office gathering with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Getty Images | Associated Press)

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Ahead of the gathering with Ramaphosa earlier this month, Musk-owned X garnered backlash implicit its AI chatbot, Grok, providing unsolicited responses astir attacks against achromatic farmers successful South Africa. 

Musk's artificial intelligence company, which makes the exertion for Grok, said pursuing complaints that an "unauthorized modification" to Grok's algorithm is the crushed wherefore it kept talking astir contention and authorities successful South Africa, according to the Associated Press.