President Donald Trump spent much of today’s Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa rambling about disproven claims and conspiracy theories that white South African farmers are the victims of a genocide. Ramaphosa was not interested in indulging Trump’s delusions about his country.

When a reporter asked Trump what it would take for him to believe that there was no white genocide taking place in South Africa, Ramaphosa interjected to say that such a shift would require Trump actually “listening to the voices of South Africans, some of whom he is good friends with, like those who are here.”

“It will take him, President Trump, listening to their stories, to their perspective,” Ramaphosa added.

Over the past week, attendees at the NAMPO agricultural exhibition in Bothaville, Free State — the largest agricultural expo in South Africa — categorically refuted claims that they were victims of a genocide. The allegations have also been rejected by South African courts that have blocked the transfer of funds to white supremacist groups that spread the conspiracy theory. Nevertheless, Trump has granted refugee status to over 50 white South Africans and banned the government from participating in this year’s G20 summit, which is set to be hosted by South Africa.

The claim that South African whites — particularly white farmers and Afrikaners — have been the targets of systematic, genocidal, anti-white violence in post-apartheid South Africa has existed for...

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