Trump claimed that a video had shown 'graves' of white farmers. It didn't.

In a meeting of the White House on Wednesday, President Trump President Cyril Ramaphosa from South Africa showed a social media video of a rural road with white crosses and hundreds of vehicles.

Mr. Trump said Mr. Ramaphosa that the film material “burial centers” of “over 1,000” white farmers showed in South Africa.

A New York Times analysis showed that the film material on September 5, 2020 showed a commemorative procession near Newcastle, South Africa. According to a local news website, the event was murdered for a white couple in the area from whom the police said at the end of August of this year.

The crosses were planted in the days before the event and later removed.

The false representation of the film material took place during a breathtaking meeting, in which Mr. Trump made false claims about a genocide against white farmers. Mr. Trump stretched the lights to play the film material and presented it as proof of racist persecution against white South Africans.

As the clip played, Mr. Trump said: “These are graves here. Graves. Over a thousand white farmers.”

Contrary to Mr. Trump's statements, the crosses are not graves for farmers and were not permanently placed along the street. The film material, which was published in early September 2020 before the Remembrance event on social media, shows people who set up the white crosses and show the pictures of Google Street View from 2023 that they have been decreased since then.

In South Africa there were a number of protests against the murder of white farmers. It is known that white crosses are used in these events to present the murdered farmers. Videos and photos of the event on September 5 also showed tractors that were decorated with flags, the murders of farm and a large reading of Banner: “President Ramaphosa, how many have to die?” stretched between two vehicles above the street.

South Africa has an exceptionally high murder rate, but the police statistics do not show that white South Africans or farmers are more susceptible to violent crimes than other people.

An official of the White House informed the Times that each cross was a white farmer who had been killed, but did not comment on why Mr. Trump had described the video as the funeral of burial offices.

It is unclear where Mr. Trump got the video from or from whom if someone characterized what the video showed. Elon Musk, who originally comes from South Africa and is one of Trump's consultant, published the video at least twice before today's meeting on the Social Media website X.

When Mr. Ramaphosa was asked on Wednesday where the video came from, Mr. Trump said: “I think it's in South Africa.”