Trump Lied About White Genocide in Oval Office Ambush

Trump embarrassed America once again by ambushing another world leader during a white house visit.

The "evidence" of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while video shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.

“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article, like your grandparents showing you a fake AI image of Jesus preaching in Times Square that they found on Facebook.

The picture was actually just a screenshot of a video showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The video was shot after deadly battles that took place in Rwanda, not an unsubstantiated genocide that the Trump team is pushing.

At another point in the meeting, Trump ambushed the South African president by playing a video that he claimed proved genocide is being committed against white people in South Africa. Within it was footage that Trump claimed showed the graves of more than a thousand white farmers, marked by white crosses.

The footage – taken at a highway connecting the small towns of Newcastle and Normandein in South Africa – in fact showed a memorial site, and not graves.

“It was a memorial. It was not a permanent memorial that was erected. It was a temporary memorial,” he said. The memorial was set up in the aftermath of the murder of two Afrikaner farmers in the local community.

The video, filled with lies, was intended to back the president’s offer of “refuge” to "persecuted" white farmers. This conspiracy theory, which has circulated among the far-right for years, is based on false claims.

The video prominently featured Julius Malema, a firebrand politician known for his radical rhetoric. Trump falsely claimed that he was a government official, insinuating his inflammatory slogans reflected an official policy against South Africa’s white minority. I guess Trump thinks that since MAGA can do it in America, then other groups must do it too.

Ramaphosa visited the White House in good faith, in an attempt to mend ties with America after persistent criticism from Trump in recent months over South Africa’s land laws, foreign policy, and alleged bad treatment of its white minority, which South Africa denies.