Donald Trump is ’misinformed‘

Cyril Ramaphosa meets with Donald Trump this week. As far as I can gather, the key message my country's president wants to put across is that the US leader is 'misinformed' about South Africa.

It's what the mainstream media do with narrative building. Even the New York Times has climbed onto the bandwagon of Ramaphosa's praise singers:

South Africa will get its chance to directly rebut what it says is Mr. Trump’s misinformation with President Cyril Ramaphosa’s scheduled visit to the White House on Wednesday.

So where does the leader of the world's most powerful country get his information? 

1. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)
   • Oversees the entire intelligence community; integrates foreign, military, and domestic intelligence. Personnel: ±1 500–2 000
2. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
   • Foreign intelligence collection (espionage), analysis, covert operations, and counterintelligence. Personnel: ±20 000–25 000
3. National Security Agency (NSA)
   • Signals intelligence (SIGINT), cyber operations, information assurance. Personnel: ±30 000–40 000
4. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
   • Military intelligence, defence-related foreign intelligence. Personnel: ±16 500
5. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
   • Geospatial intelligence (maps, satellite imagery). Personnel: ±14 500
6. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
   • Design, launch, and operate reconnaissance satellites. Personnel: ±3 000
7. Army Intelligence (U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command - INSCOM)
   • Tactical and strategic military intelligence for Army operations. Personnel: ±10 000
8. Navy Intelligence (Office of Naval Intelligence - ONI)
   • Naval and maritime intelligence. Personnel: ±3 000
9. Air Force Intelligence (25th Air Force / now part of Sixteenth Air Force)
   • Airborne signals and imagery intelligence, cyber operations. Personnel: ±8 000–10 000
10. Marine Corps Intelligence
    • Supports Marine Corps operations with tactical intelligence. Personnel: ±1 000–1 500
11. Space Force Intelligence (Space Delta 7, etc.)
    • Intelligence on space threats, space domain awareness. Personnel: ±1 000
12. Department of State – Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR)
    • Political and diplomatic intelligence analysis. Personnel: ±300–500
13. Department of the Treasury – Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA)
    • Financial intelligence (money laundering, terrorist financing). Personnel: ±150–200
14. Department of Energy – Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence (OICI)
    • Nuclear and energy-related intelligence and counterintelligence. Personnel: ±500–1 000
15. Department of Homeland Security – Office of Intelligence and Analysis (DHS I&A)
    • Domestic threat analysis; information sharing with local and federal law enforcement. Personnel: ±1 000
16. Federal Bureau of Investigation – Intelligence Branch
    • Domestic intelligence and counterterrorism; counterintelligence within US. Personnel: ±35 000 total FBI staff of which ±5 000–10 000 involved in intelligence functions
17. Coast Guard Intelligence (part of DHS during peacetime)
    • Maritime domain awareness, counter-narcotics, port security. Personnel: ±1 000
18. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) – Office of National Security Intelligence
    • Narcotics-related intelligence, especially related to foreign and transnational threats. Personnel: ±300–500

In short, Trump gets his information from at least 100,000–120,000 civilian and military personnel, (not all agencies publicly disclose numbers), and this is not counting thousands of foreign paid informers.

These guys are able to tap into our phone calls, sift through our text messages, intercept our emails, map our social media posts, and access our medical records.

You think he's misinformed?