During that 'ambush' oval office meeting with the South African leader, billionaire Johan Rupert stood up to plead with Trump to 'save' South Africa saying that they need starlink satellite technology and drones at every little police station, etc... IOW, they need help, from Elon Musk.

But for Trump, it was a perfect trifecta moment of playing to his own audience at home of white/Christian nationalists (who are obsessed with existential threats), distracting from prices going up at Walmart or the millions of people who will be kicked off of Medicaid, and of course... the art of the grift.