Trump puts evidence of 'White genocide' in front of South African leader

President Trump played a video in the Oval Office that seemed to show evidence of widespread violence against White South Africans, putting South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in an awkward and uncomfortable position.

Mr. Trump has endorsed reports of a genocide against White farmers in South Africa and granted refugee status to the White minority Afrikaners who flee South Africa.

“We have thousands of stories talking about it and we have documentaries, we have news stories,” Mr. Trump said. “I could show you a couple of things and … it has to be responded to.”

Mr. Ramaphosa and the South African delegation sat there uncomfortably watching the videos play.

When the video switched to show the burial sites of white South Africans, Mr. Trump pointed it out to the South African president.

Mr. Ramaphosa asked Mr. Trump if he knew where that was.

“I’d like to know where that is because this I’ve never seen,” he said. “We need to find out.”

Mr. Trump showed a series of articles he had printed out about White farmers being killed.

“When you look at the videos. I mean, how does it get worse?” Mr. Trump said.

He said he has friends who have left South Africa and have detailed to him how White South Africans are being killed for their land.

Mr. Ramaphosa defended the South African government, saying the speeches heard in the videos are “not government policy.”

He said the government policy is against what was being said in the videos.

When Mr. Trump asked about the killings of the white farmers, Mr. Ramaphosa said that those killed through criminal activity are not only white, but also Black.

“The farmers are not Black. I’m not saying that’s good or bad, but the farmers are not Black,” Mr. Trump said.

Later, Mr. Trump said he had not made up his mind that the killings amount to genocide.

Regardless of whether it qualifies as genocide, there is no doubt that people are being killed on South African farms.

An estimated 225 people were killed on South African farms in a four-year period ending in 2024, nearly half of them Black workers living on farms, according to the New York Times.

AfriForum, a minority rights organisation for Afrikaners, recorded 40 deaths in farm attacks in 2023 and 50 in 2022.