US President Donald Trump ambushed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa by playing a video of anti-white racism in his country in a heated meeting.
According to BBC, a meeting between the presidents of two countries on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at the Oval Office was supposed to soothe tension between the US and South Africa, but Trump’s false claims and proofs of white “genocide” put the counterpart in a defensive position.
A week after granting nearly 60 white Afrikaners in the US, Trump meets Ramaphosa in the White House to reset the relationship between the two countries.
Trump said, “We have many people that feel they're being persecuted, and they're coming to the United States. So we take from many ... locations if we feel there's persecution or genocide going on. People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety. Their land is being confiscated, and in many cases, they're being killed.”
However, Ramaphosa remained poised and pushed back claims, saying, “If there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here,” referring to golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen and billionaire Johann Rupert, all white, who were present in the room.
Reality behind the video of 'graves' of white people
The Republican president surprised Ramaphosa during a live news conference with a baseless accusation of "white genocide" in South Africa and by playing a video featuring an exhibit with crosses along a road, claiming that these were burial sites for murdered white farmers.
Surprisingly, Trump did not know where in South Africa that video was filmed.
In reality, the corses were not actually graves but a part of an exhibit protesting violence against farmers in 2020 after a farming couple was murdered in KwaZulu-Natal province. The organisers set up the marks to represent farmers killed over the years.
