It has been said that the best jokes are dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

On Wednesday, a dangerous joke was told in the Oval Office. Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, turned to the American president and said: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you.”

Nothing has so succinctly summed up the way the rest of the world feels it must now approach America as these 10 words.

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It has been said that the best jokes are dangerous because they are in some way truthful.

On Wednesday, a dangerous joke was told in the Oval Office. Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, turned to the American president and said: “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you.”

Nothing has so succinctly summed up the way the rest of the world feels it must now approach America as these 10 words.

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