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Watch: Trump asked for a white African persecution and plays a video for the South African President in the Oval Office

President Donald Trump confronted the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and accused him of not protecting white farmers from violence while playing misleading videos, supporting the controversial and unfounded claims of the white genocide in the country.

Take a look at the full clip in the player above.

After a reporter Trump asked what it would need to be convinced that there is no white genocide in South Africa, Ramaphosa said that Trump “listened to the voices of the South Africans” and repeated that the claim was not true. He said white members of his administration had not accompanied him to the Oval Office on Wednesday if there were genocide.

Trump then asked his employees to “turn off the light” and play a video that killed large graves with South African activists and demonstrators after killing farmers and an air clip of what he said.

Ramaphosa replied that the clips of small minority parties, not the official government policy, were and South Africa is a “multi-party democracy” that enables people to express themselves.

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“There is crime in our country,” he said. “People who are unfortunately killed by criminal activities are not only white people. Most of them are black people.”

In the past few days, the Trump administration has exhibited Africans, mainly white South African farmers, who have the feeling of being pursued because of their breed. White South Africans have three quarters of private land in the country and control around 60 percent of top corporate management jobs, although only 7 percent of the population make up.

Africans are the descendants of predominantly Dutch settlers who colonized South Africa centuries ago. They were the architects of apartheid, the racist government system, which prioritized the country's white minority, which officially ended 30 years ago.

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