“Don’t have a plane to give you”: Trump pushes “white genocide” claims in chaotic Ramaphosa meeting

president Donald Trump She directed a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramavusa on Wednesday, which stopped their conversation at the Oval Office to play a video of the alleged “white collective genocide” in the country of Ramavusa.

While taking questions from the correspondents, Trump played snapshots of white crosses along a fast rural road in South Africa. The crosses have been victims of agricultural attacks in the country since 1990. South AfricaTrump Adviser Elon Musk It was very straightforward about South Africa whites and apparently Pay it on social media Chatbot Grok To enhance the idea earlier this month.

Trump said by mistake: “More than a thousand white farms and those cars lined up to push love on Sunday morning. Each of those white things that you see is a cross, and there are approximately a thousand of them.”

US Several dozens of Africans have admitted as refugees Earlier this month. The reality of murders in the country It does not bear their story. Of the 225 murders reported on farms in the past four years, only 53 of these white farmers have been.

South African officials have Constantly Genocide allegations of the white African population in the country. These allegations have grown in a louder voice in recent months, after South Africa has passed a law allowing the government to issue rural lands that were not in use. Ramavusa defended the law as a move towards ethnic stocks in a country where a white minority possesses nearly half of all agricultural lands.

At the meeting on Tuesday, Ramavusa repeatedly asked about Trump’s assumptions. When the meeting grew tense after he asked one of the reporters Trump talented plane from QatarRamavusa offered mockery.

“I am sorry, I don’t have a plane to give you,” he said.