President Donald Trump showed South Africa’s president a damning video montage of threats against white people in his country after Cyril Ramaphosa asserted that there was no genocide against white farmers there.
During Ramaphosa’s meeting with Trump in the Oval Office on Wednesday, a reporter asked what it would take for Trump to believe there isn’t a genocide in South Africa.
Trump has said the white South Afrikaners are the victims of “genocide,” a claim Ramaphosa has called “a completely false narrative.”
Last week, Trump’s State Department welcomed 23 families of South African refugees to the United States.
Ramaphosa answered the reporter before Trump could speak, saying that it would take “listening to the voice of South Africans.”
“We have thousands of stories talking about it,” Trump retorted. “We have documentaries. We have news stories.”
The president then proceeded to play a video documenting persecution of whites in black-majority South Africa.
Trump flipped through a thick stack of news articles about white farmers being killed.
“Death, death, death,” he said.
He slammed South Africa for a law signed by the president in 2023 enabling the government to “seize ethnic-minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.”
“You’re taking people’s land away from them, and those people in many cases are being executed … how do you explain that?” Trump asked.