In a complete meeting with the South African president in the White House this Wednesday, May 21, Donald Trump interrupted the question of the questions and answers of a “off the lights” to transmit in front of Cyril Ramaphosa, a video edition that is supposed to demonstrate his accusations of “genocide” against white farmers.
The presentation made by the US president, using these videos and then the items soft under the nose of his interlocutor, included many errors.
• The crosses are not tombs
A video extract shows vehicles stopped along a road bordered by a white cross planted on the ground.
“You saw all these tombs,” said Donald Trump a few moments later.
“These are relatives who go, I imagine, on Sunday morning to meditate in front of theirs who were killed.”
The sequence transmitted in fact corresponds to a demonstration of 2020 near Newcastle in eastern South Africa after the murder of a couple of farmers, according to videos and press articles of the time. These crosses had erected symbolically and the protesters had paraded aboard their vehicles. The couple’s murderers were sentenced to life imprisonment.
• The politician who is shown is not in power
At another stage of the edition appears a politician who launches this call: “We are South Africans, we occupy lands.”
“The people you saw in this movie are leaders,” says Donald Trump. Actually, the author of this speech is Julius Malema, the leader of the radical party on the left. His training carried out 9.5% in last year’s elections and is not part of the ruling coalition. I was no longer in the previous government.
• “Kill the Boer” is a song of the fight against apartheid
In his usual red outfit, Julius Malema, known for his pro-ruse positions, sang “Kill the Boer”, a song inherited from the fight against apartheid, the old white minority regime.
The song is denounced in South Africa and its prohibition was requested by the second largest South African party, the Democratic alliance that has governed since 2024 in coalition with the ANC, Nelson Mandela’s party.
In 2010, a court had also banned it before other judges invited him to consider it, not as an incentive for hate but as a history of the fight against racial segregation. In 2024, the highest patio in the country, seized by Afrikaner Afriforum Identity Group, confirmed this decision.
• A Trump -soft image comes from the RDC
After the video, the US president has shown files that contain articles about farmers’ murders.
One of them comes from the “American Thinker” site, a blog with a modest audience and reproduces an image of people in the Red Cross uniform that manipulate mortuary bags.
“All of that is the white farmers who are being buried,” said Donald Trump.
The image is actually a screenshot of a YouTube video dating from February and filmed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (RDC) in the Congolese of rubber, according to the legend of the video. It shows the remains of women victims of abuse in the context of the war in the east of the country and was published by Wion Media, which used images of the Reuters agency.
• A “large number” of white farmers are not killed
“These people are killed in large quantities,” the US president insisted. He also surprised a journalist asking him a question about the Boeing offered by Qatar: “Is that why this idiot speaks to me after watching a video where thousands of people died?”
The murders of white farmers represent a small proportion of homicides in South Africa, a country that shows one of the highest homicide rates on the planet. The Afriforum Identity Group, which is the source of a campaign to highlight the phenomenon, had identified 49 murders of white farmers in 2023. compared to the 27,621 homicides identified between April 2023 and March 2024 in official police statistics.
Source: BFM TV
