During a meeting at the White House, President Donald Trump surprised the South African leader, Cyril Ramaphosa, by showing videos linked to the genocide of the white population in South Africa.
The South African leader, who did not expect it, watched in silence and then feigned distraction by saying: "I would like to know where this comes from, because I have never seen these videos."
Trump presented evidence and recordings of South African communist leaders singing racist and violent songs against white farmers. The American president added: "People are fleeing South Africa for their safety (...) Their lands are being confiscated and, in many cases, they are being killed."
La reunión entre Donald Trump y Cyril Ramaphosa.
During the meeting, Trump even dimmed the lights in the Oval Office to project a video in which a communist politician performed a controversial song that promotes the genocide of whites, with lyrics that incited killing farmers. "These are people who are officials and are saying: kill the white farmer and take their lands," he detailed.
"We completely oppose that," stated Ramaphosa, referring to Trump's statements, although he doesn't demonstrate it in practice, as he allows these attacks to occur.
The President of the United States also showed journalists several news articles from recent days, highlighting "death of people, death, death, death, horrible death, death."
He also pointed out: "Look at this headline: a South African white couple claims to have been violently attacked." Regarding another article, he added: "Here are burial places everywhere; they are all white farmers being buried."
La reunión entre Donald Trump y Cyril Ramaphosa.
Subsequently, Ramaphosa excused himself: "What you saw, the speeches that were made, are not the government's policy. We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, and political parties to adhere to various policies. In many cases, or in some cases, those policies do not align with government policy."
In February, Trump signed an executive order that cut all financial aid to South Africa due to some of its internal and foreign policies. The order criticized the South African government in several aspects, accusing it of applying anti-white policies in the country and supporting "bad actors" in the world like Iran and the terrorist group Hamas.
Trump also criticized the South African government for violating the rights of white Afrikaner farmers through the confiscation of lands under a new expropriation law.
