In a highly charged and emotional exchange at the White House on Wednesday, President Donald Trump directly confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with video footage depicting “the slaughter of White farmers” in South Africa.
The video, played during a private portion of the meeting before press were allowed in, showed a long stretch of road lined with hundreds of white crosses — a visual that President Trump said represented the graves of murdered White South African farmers.
“Now this is very bad. These are burial sites right here. Burial sites — over a thousand — of White farmers,” Trump said, visibly disturbed. “Those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there is approximately a thousand of them. They’re all White farmers. The family of White farmers. And those cars aren’t driving, they are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed. And it’s a terrible sight. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
President Ramaphosa, taken aback, questioned the video’s origin, asking: “Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? I’d like to know where that is. Because this I’ve never seen.”
Trump responded without hesitation: “I mean, it’s in South Africa, that’s where.”
Ramaphosa replied, “We need to find out.”
“We’ve had a tremendous number of people, especially since they’ve seen this — generally they’re White farmers — and they’re fleeing South Africa. And it’s, you know, it’s a very sad thing to see,” said Trump.
Reports emerged that 50 Afrikaners were flown to the United States last week under refugee status, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirming, “there’s more to come.”
Despite this, South African officials and legacy mainstream media have consistently denied allegations of a campaign of violence or targeted displacement of White farmers.
Ramaphosa dismissed claims of genocide during the meeting, stating, “If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture.”
In response to a journalist’s question asking what action he wanted President Ramaphosa to take, Trump said candidly, “I don’t know. I don’t know.” He then pulled out a thick stack of news clippings and documents: “Look, these are articles over the last few days… Death of people. Death. Death. Horrible death.”
“White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws,” he added. “So when you say, ‘What would I like to do?’ I don’t know what to do.”
Trump’s confrontation sparked a wave of reactions on social media. Supporters praised the President’s boldness in standing up for persecuted minorities abroad, while legacy media outlets quickly moved to discredit the claims.
Trump presents evidence of the persecution of White South African farmers…
The Media: “FALSE CLAIMS! UNFOUNDED! BASELESS!”
The media are evil. Pure garbage. pic.twitter.com/LVSdxVW1hQ
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2025
Many of Trump’s supporters echoed this sentiment online, accusing mainstream news networks of whitewashing violence and downplaying suffering due to political correctness. “When Trump defends minorities like Afrikaner farmers, the media suddenly loses interest,” one user tweeted. “Their bias is showing.”
Meanwhile, legacy media outlets such as CNN, the New York Times, and the BBC ran headlines dismissing Trump’s remarks as “inflammatory,” “unsubstantiated,” and “dangerous misinformation” — despite firsthand testimony, immigration movements, and now direct video evidence presented at the White House.
Critics of legacy media argue this isn’t the first time press organisations have rushed to shut down uncomfortable truths. “This is the same media that claimed the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinfo,” a commentator wrote. “Why should anyone believe them now?”
The talking points went out to the fake news…
Trump “ambushed” the president of South Africa by playing a video montage of South African leaders calling for White genocide.
The media is complicit. pic.twitter.com/zTNqAE0OIf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2025
While President Ramaphosa left the meeting without agreeing to any specific action, Trump’s challenge has reignited the international spotlight on rural South Africa — and raised serious questions about who is telling the truth.
“Whatever the media says, the footage speaks for itself,” Trump stated before departing. “And I’ll continue to speak for those who aren’t being heard.”
F#*K THE LEGACY COMMUNIST MEDIA…It’s all J3wi$h owned & controlled anyway, and right in line with the teachings of the Talmud!
All this is, is Trump throwing the dead cat on the table to South Africas calling out Israel and their backers of genocide.
Look at these guy(SA) and argue over whether the evidence is legit so you are distracted and not focussed on the genocide actually occuring with the US’s approval
Yes its a distraction, no doubt but its also true.
Utterly retarded comment. The article and the event it describes has nothing whatsoever to do with two tribes halfway across the world who’ve been murdering each other since the opening chapters of Genesis (and probably still will be 1000 years from now).
Please focus
This has been going on for years. How the MSM could claim this is false, only shows what a bunch of shills, most of them, are. As for the South African government, there is no way they can’t know, what’s going on.
There’s a great doco from Laura Southern, I think its a couple of years old now, that exposes the treatment of white people in South Africa. Its well worth a look, if you can find it.
I will add, Trump needs to apply the same moral yardstick, to Israel’s crimes in Gaza.
Israel and Gaza are AT WAR though. Two rival foreign powers fighting one another. That doesn’t mean crimes and atrocities are excused, but war is understood to be war – deaths and casualties are inescapable, sadly.
The white South Africans aren’t at war with anybody. There is no foreign power invading their country, in this case it’s their own government (whose protection they’re supposed to be under) who are sanctioning and encouraging their slaughter. And it’s their own tax money that’s paying for it.
Two vastly different situations, with different calculus, different moving parts and different political outcomes. Half the international governments and press have picked either Palestine or Israel’s side, almost NOBODY cares or even believes what’s happening to the South Africans.
The smooth brains here in the comments who keep trying to conflate the two issues and wield it as some kind of criticism against Trump are delusional and disingenuous. It’s a GOOD thing that Trump is helping these South African farmers and drawing attention to their plight.
F#*K THE LEGACY COMMUNIST MEDIA…It’s all J3wi$h owned & controlled anyway, and right in line with the teachings of the Talmud!
Russian President Putin has been taking-in White South African farmers for some time now.
Hopefully, the White South Africans will displace the illegal migrant hordes sent to the U.S. via Israeli NGO’s located in Darien Gap in Panama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-cKQ-emN6Y
Fake news media in lockstep with one another again with their fake headlines and stories no wonder everyone hates them
Let’s stay focused for a moment and remember the wider audience that follow MSM, its this that Trump exposes this truth with no uncertainty and he should at least be applauded for what he has shown to the world. It is so easy to be slagging Trump off but none of this would of ever happened by Kamala Harris.
Where are the indian’s graves ? Because the US was also funded on a genocide, slave labour and racial segregation not so long ago abolished.
Supports israhell in land’s theft, racisms, apartheid and genocide.
Not very well placed to give lessons on ” human rights”. Bl**dy hypocrites !!!
Most slave owners were Jewish, and Jews OWNED THE SLAVE SHIPS!
18% of Northern Black Americans owned black slaves.
The Barbary Coast Slave Trade didn’t stop until the mid 1800’s, and the slaves were WHITE PEOPLE kidnapped from the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia and the northern coast of the Mediterranean Nations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMw7c88xUMI
God bless Trump, you folk on here are being exposed, about time!
Took me some time to understand.
Of course it is South Africa that filed a complaint at the International Criminal Court in the Hague against israhell genocidal behaviour in Gaza.
So manipulated pictures etc of South African ” abuse” ( some pic are from Congo’s slaughters actually) were given to trump by you know whom.
So obvious.
Arn’t we used to lies, manipulation, distortion, blackmail etc from the ” chosen ones” ?