Trump confronted the South African President with “proving” the genocide – here is what the video really showed

A week ago, Elon Musk – one of the leading providers of false claims of the “white genocide” in South Africa – tweeted a clip that allegedly shows the graves of hundreds of killed white farmers.

“So many crosses,” said Musk.

The same clip made it into the video montage with which Donald Trump attacked South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the meeting on Wednesday in the Oval Office that the president insisted that it was “evidence” for mass murder white Africans in Ramaphosas Land.

Meanwhile, the video showed white crucifixes that lined a South African motorway, while a number of cars and vehicles drove past slowly. According to Trump, this was essentially a mass cemetery in which the families of murdered white farmers could mourn the loss of their relatives.

“These are graves – over a thousand – from white farmers,” Trump roared. “And these cars stand for love on a Sunday morning. Each of these white things they see is a cross. And there are about a thousand of them. They are all white farmers.”

Trump added: “And these cars do not drive. They are stopped there to pay respect for the family member killed. It is a terrible sight, I've never seen anything like this before.”

When Ramaphosa asked Trump for the place of the “tomb” because he had never seen it before, the president only said that it was in South Africa.

It seems that the supposed cemetery on the roadside full of “genocide” was actually a tribute to two farmers who were killed in Normandia, South Africa in August 2020. At the same time, the demonstration should raise awareness of the country's murders.

The White House has not returned a request for comment.

Shortly after the tense and chaotic meeting of the White House, in which the President also copies of boulevarder, which he claimed that “thousands of stories” over “death, death”, CNN triggered a segment that provided a necessary context of Trump's video montage.

“He claimed there were a thousand street graves,” said Cnn Anker Boris Sanchez. “Apparently this is a video that made a political statement of a certain political party in South Africa, but not of actual graves, only a political demonstration to emphasize violence against farmers.”

The CNN correspondent Larry Madowo, who lives in South Africa, pointed out that the South African Minister for Agriculture John Steenhuisen – a white man and a political opponent of Ramaphosa – had a problem for the country for the country during the meeting of the White House.

“If 1,000 white farmers died in South Africa, it would be impossible to hide it,” said Madowo, adding: “Overall, this was a very good day for white supremacists in South Africa because they received confirmation that they never imagined from the highest office in the country.”

In the meantime, the clip, the Trump, was originally shot on September 5, 2020 as a “grave” of “over a thousand” white farmers. An organizer of the demonstration now said that the public broadcasters in South Africa symbolized the crucifixes that had been killed over time.

At the time of the demonstration, South Africa Sunday stands reported on the convoy of vehicles that drove with white crosses along the street:

“Your death increased calls from community leaders, legal groups and politicians who allegedly condemned the latest murders in the country, and some demanded another prioritized police focus.

“On Saturday, a convoy of hundreds of 'affected Newcastle Citizens' made a round trip that rounded off through the city center and around the farm of the Rafferty to pay the couple respect and raise awareness of murders at farms.

“Bob Hoatson, who took part in the procession, said that the initiative was not white farmers:” It was for people from all areas of life that were worried about Murder, “said Hoatson.”

Four men were finally convicted of the murders of the Raffertys who received a lifelong detention because he attacked and killed the couple as part of an armed robbery. At the same time, the murders of Raffertys were cited as further evidence of “white genocide” by right -wing groups, especially since their murders were raised only a few hours after tens of thousands of motorcyclists who had raised more measures against agricultural murders.

The demonstration is somewhat similar to the Witkruis monument, a mound commemorate between Mokopan and Polokwane, which has about 3,000 metal crosses with the death of South African farmers.

Among the remaining evidence that the President had shown on Wednesday, which supposedly supported his claims about a genocide against white South Africans, a blog post with a photo from the Democratic Republic of Congo was included.

When he flipped a stack of articles, he called: “Death of people, death, death, death, terrible death, death!” Trump also claimed that the reports were all published in “The Last Menty Days” and “people who were recently killed”. BarronAn article that from the little-known blog American Thinker comes-and a picture of workers with the Red Cross, who deal with corpse bags. “Look, there are burdens everywhere. These are all white farmers who are buried,” said Trump.

Instead as Barron The picture was a screenshot for a month-old YouTube video of “workers of the Red Cross who were raped and burned alive during a mass jailbreak in the Congolese city of Goma”.

A large part of the rest of the video trump, which was broadcast during the meeting, mostly contained outside the context material of the left opposition leader Julius Malema and other extremist figures that “kill” the controversial anti-apartheid slogans and “kill the farmers”. For his part, Ramaphosa held his cool and condemned Malemas rhetoric and pointed out that he is a marginal element.

“In South Africa, we have a multi -party democracy that enables people to express themselves, political parties to adhere to different guidelines. And in many cases or in some cases, this policy is not associated with government policy,” he told Trump. “Our government policy is completely against what he said, even in parliament, and they are a small minority party that may exist in relation to our constitution.”

Despite the claims of the President, who quickly pursues the refugee status of the White Africans and South Africa, primarily due to the conspiracy theory of the “white genocide”, did the help, the facts do not support the facts that white South Africans are killed in mass in order to take their arable land.

According to the South African police, 225 people were killed on farms in South Africa from March 2020 to April 2024. A hundred and one of these victims were either current or former workers who lived on farms, most of whom are black. Fifty -three of the murdered were farmers who tend to be white.

“In 2024, the South African police recorded 26,232 murders nationwide, 44 of which were connected to farmers,” said Reuters. “Of these, eight of the victims were farmers.”