Trump Forces South Africa's President to Watch Video Calling for Genocide of White Farmers

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When Donald Trump met with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, the President made him watch a video of his country's leaders calling for the mass killing of white farmers.

The two leaders watched the video from the Oval Office.

At one point, Trump told his staff to play the video of “genocide in South Africa.”

The video showed various clips of leaders from South Africa's minority party demanding the killing of Boers, which means “farmers” and is a reference to white South Africans.

It also showed many supporters chanting these calls for genocide.

President Ramaphosa did not look at the screen for much of it, instead looking forward or at Trump.

The video then showed an endless line of cars paying tribute to murdered white farmers.

Trump pressed what was on the screen, saying “Burial sites. Right here. Burial sites. Over a thousand white farmers and those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there is approximately a thousand of them. They are all white farmers, the family of white farmers."

"And those cars aren’t driving," Trump noted. "They are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed."

Ramaphosa began to watch the video.

Trump added, “And it’s a terrible sight, I have never seen anything like it."

Ramaphosa said he had never seen the footage and asked where this had taken place.

“South Africa,” Trump replied.

“I need to find out,” Ramaphosa said.

After the video was over, both presidents took questions, with Trump getting into an exchange with Ramaphosa. 

Ramaphosa said, “What you saw, the speeches that were being made... one, that’s not government policy. We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves, political parties to various policies. In many cases, or in some cases, those policies don’t go along with government policy. Our government policy is completely, completely against what (the leaders were) saying, even in the parliament — a minority party, which is allowed to exist in terms of our constitution."

Trump asserted, “But you do allow them to take land."

“No, nobody can take land,” Ramaphosa responded.

Trump pushed again, “When they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they do, nothing happens to them. Nothing happens to them."

“How do you explain that?” the President added.

President Trump has said that white South African farmers are being forced off their land and murdered. 

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