Trump seizes videos from a South African politician as proof of threats to white farmers

New York – President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa On Wednesday with claiming that white farmers are being killed in the country. The most important proof of Trump, compiled in a video shown during their Oval Office meeting: Speeches kicked by a politician who was kicked out of the Ramaphosa party, is not part of the coalition that rules the country and whose own political movement yielded less than 10% of last year’s elections.

The Trump government has used the rhetoric of an edge politician and the endemic violence of South Africa as a justification for which allow white South Africans Apply to become refugees in the United States, even if the country is no longer to accept all other refugees and tries to expel the national immigrants such as like Afghans who helped the American army.

Some Trump allies have seized Julius Malema’s Vert cross-left economic freedom fighters to claim that South Africa is involved in genocide against white farmers, a position that seemed to be astonished during his visit to Oval Office the most important political rival of Malema, Ramaphosa. Ramaphosa repeatedly emphasized that Eff is ‘a small minority party’.

Trump seems to rely on representations of certain rich white South Africans, Including his close adviser, Elon Muskwho was at the Wednesday meeting and repeatedly posted clips from Malema and sang an old anti-apartheum song with the texts “Kill the Boer” and “Shoot the Boer” on his X account. Boer refers to the white farmers of the country.

“Very few people know that there is an important political party in South Africa that actively promotes white genocide,” posted the Tesla and SpaceX CEO in March next to a video of the song. “Where is the outrage? Why is there no reporting by the Legacy Media?”

When a reporter asked Trump for his vision of whether a genocide is underway in South Africa, he said, “I did not decide.”

The Oval Office video ended with an aerial photo of a line of white crosses along a road that Trump claimed to show cemeteries for white farmers killed in South Africa. Local news items from the country show that the crosses were part of a demonstration in 2020 instead after a white couple was killed on their farm. The video got new life earlier this year and was posted by Musk.

Ramaphosa seemed stunned by the video and turned to Trump as it was shown before he said: “I would like to know where that is because this has never seen.”

The crosses resemble those on a Hillside Memorial in South Africa that claims to mark around 3,000 murders of white farmers in a country that registers more than 20,000 murders a year.

Ramaphosa noted that most victims of murder in South Africa are black. He said that if Trump listened to ‘the voices of South Africans’, he would do that Understand the situation better. A visibly frustrated Trump prevented “we have thousands of stories” and then Ramaphosa confronted with video from Malema that called on Black South Africans to take over land, even if the president tells them that they cannot.

“That is not a government policy,” Ramaphosa protested. “Our government policy is completely against what he says, even in parliament.”

Ramaphosa’s agricultural minister, John Steenhuis, who is white, added that he had joined the reigning coalition to ensure that “that fate” never gets power in South Africa.

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Riccardi reported from Denver and Magome from Johannesburg. Associated Press writer Melissa Goldin has also contributed.