My leg started swelling when South African President visited me – Trump

Washington, D.C. – July 2025

In a dramatic moment of physical turmoil almost worthy of an Oval Office press conference, President Donald Trump has come forward with claims that his legs swelled to grotesque proportions, allegedly as a side effect of meeting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

“I shook his hand, leaned in for a photo… and bam! My ankles blew up like two hot-air balloons,” Trump moaned, flexing his calves for dramatic emphasis. “I haven’t been able to wear socks since. I had to cut them off and toss ‘em!”

According to Trump’s self-diagnosis, the swelling is a diplomatic affliction—contracted during Ramaphosa’s high-profile White House visit in May 2025. That visit featured a tense Oval Office moment in which Trump screened questionable footage of “white farmer burials”—which turned out not to be from South Africa at all.

Suffering more than just the pangs of a controversial meeting, Trump now says his ankles “felt like they were on strike”—a grievance he expects Congress to investigate. “What else could cause it?” he sniffed. “It wasn’t the coffee. It was that South African mojo.”

Meanwhile in Pretoria, President Ramaphosa was reportedly sidelined by a mild flu shortly after returning from the U.S., though some sources speculated he may have suffered an eye infection from diplomatic overexposure.

A spokesperson for the South African presidency insisted there was no cause for concern and confirmed the president was simply resting at home, and not hospitalized.

Back across the Atlantic, Trump has reportedly canceled his sock-donning privileges indefinitely. “I can’t risk it,” he said gravely. “One handshake, one puffed ankle—and suddenly my socks no longer fit!”

Inside sources say Trump has requested a new Oval Office protocol: “No South Africans beyond six feet!” — a reversed twist on familiar social distancing.

At press time, medical historians were unable to find any past cases of “leg swelling by diplomacy,” though one noted that President Obama’s infamous foot-tapping might qualify as a historical footnote.

Source: newsvine.co.za