By Molly Claire Goddard
3:13am PDT, May 23, 2025
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Donald Trump's meeting with South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa was quite eventful.
During the world leaders' sit-down in the
Oval Office at the White House on Wednesday, May 21, the commander-in-chief of the United States tried to show sufficient evidence that there is a "genocide" of white farmers in South Africa. However, the picture Trump presented as evidence showed an atrocity in a completely different country.
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During the contentious meeting, Cyril Ramaphosa tried to impose on Donald Trump that it isn't only white farmers who are being killed.
"There is criminality in our country," Ramaphosa explained in the gathering in front of the press. "People who do get killed, unfortunately, through criminal activity, are not only white people — the majority of them are Black people."
"The farmers are not Black," Trump said, cutting off his fellow politician. "I'm not saying that's good or bad, but the farmers are not Black. The people are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all of those gravesites."
"Death of people, death, death, death, horrible death, death," the former star of
The Apprentice added while reaching for a paper with a horrific photograph on it.
Instead of the image showing anything about the alleged mass deaths of white farmers in
South Africa, the picture appears to be of Red Cross workers responding to a mass r*** and murder site in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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The major slip-up comes after Donald Trump reportedly sped up the process of
granting white South Africans refugee status in the United States while he continues to be tough on immigration for other nationalities and parts of the world.
He made the change, he said, "because they're being killed and we don't want to see people be killed."
"Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me — I understand sometime next week — and we're supposed to have a G20 meeting there or something; but we're having a G20 meeting. I don't know how we can go unless that situation's taken care of. But it's a genocide that's taking place that you people don't want to write about, but it's a terrible thing that's taking place," he said during a meeting with the press on Monday, May 12.
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa seemed perplexed by Donald Trump's statements about what is allegedly taking place in the nation he governs.
"We think that the American government has got the wrong end of the stick here, but we'll continue talking to them," Ramaphosa
said during a conference in Ivory Coast last week.
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Fox News' Peter Doocy seemed to pick up on the awkward tension between Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa during their meet-up.
"The South African president came here to say there is no genocide happening in South Africa. President Trump basically said, 'Okay, well, then what's all of this?' And he showed political leaders and opposition leaders in South Africa saying some very heinous and violent things for several minutes," the rightwing journalist said during a Thursday, May 22, broadcast. "And he just made the South African president and the rest of the South African delegation sit there in the half-dark room and watch it. And afterwards, President Trump did want to talk a little bit about trade and his visiting famous golfer friends from South Africa got to speak as well."
