Trump Confronts South Africa's Leader with False Claims of White Genocide

Wednesday, May 21, 2025

In a moment that rivaled the Trump-Zelensky meeting, the South African leader Cyril Ramaphosa met at the White House with Trump who showed Ramaphosa a video and print outs to prove that White genocide is happening in South Africa. Ramaphosa pushed back on Trump's claims but expressed his willingness to have an in-depth conversation with Trump about the claims.

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Trump spends most of a meeting with South Africa's president rambling about disproven claims and conspiracy theories www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol ...

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-- Lisa Tozzi (@lisatozzi.bsky.social) May 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM

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"Gareth Newham, who heads a justice and violence prevention program at the Institute for Security Studies in South Africa.

"As an independent Institute tracking violence and violent crime in South Africa, if there was any evidence of either a genocide or targeted violence taking place against any group based on their ethnicity this, we would be amongst the first to raise (the) alarm and provide the evidence to the world."

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"The stated reasons for [Trump's actions] are claims of victimisation, violence and hateful rhetoric against white people in South Africa along with legislation providing for the expropriation of land without compensation," read the letter from white South African religious leaders, which included among its four authors an Anglican priest.

"As white South Africans in active leadership within the Christian community, representing diverse political and theological perspectives, we unanimously reject these claims."

www.npr.org

Trump's lies are like music to the Cult's big floppy ears.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-22 12:59 AM

"Dont believe the people actually going through it. You think those white farmers are lying?

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ AT 2025-05-22 07:50 AM | REPLY | FLAG"

Link to BBC article:

www.bbc.co.uk

From the article:

"There was an image clearly visible as Trump spoke and said: "Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried."

But the image isn't from South Africa - it's actually from a report about women being killed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The French news agency (AFP) initially pointed out the image, and BBC Verify ran a search and confirmed it as being from a Reuters news agency clip filmed in the DR Congo city of Goma in February."

Looks like someone is lying.