• In a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, U.S. President Donald Trump presented video footage of white crosses along a highway, falsely claiming they marked burial sites of murdered white farmers in South Africa, and a photograph of body bags he falsely claimed held the remains of white farmers murdered in South Africa.
• However, our investigation found the white crosses were not burial sites, but elements of a symbolic memorial erected for a 2020 protest against the murder of a white couple on their farm by robbers, and the murders of other white farmers in South Africa. The crosses were removed some time ago.
• The photograph of body bags showed victims of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not South Africa. It was a screengrab from Reuters footage of the aftermath of a deadly jailbreak in February 2025 in which 100 women were raped and burned alive.
• Both the video and the photograph frequently appear in social media posts amplifying the claim that a "white genocide" — the supposed deliberate and systematic mass killing of white farmers — is taking place in South Africa. Snopes first fact-checked this claim in 2018.

In late May 2025, during a tense meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, U.S. President Donald Trump presented a series of visuals as alleged evidence of a "white genocide in South Africa."

The meeting occurred after Trump admitted 59 white South Africans from the Afrikaner minority group into the United States,...

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