US President Donald Trump hosted South Africa’s leader at the White House on Wednesday for a meeting. Trump has falsely accused the country’s government of allowing ‘genocide’ to take place toward minority white farmers.
President Donald Trump shared photos from news articles this week when he forcefully confronted South Africa’s president in the Oval Office with baseless claims that white farmers are being systemically killed.
As he leafed through printouts to underscore his point, he said South Africa’s white farmers have faced "death, death, death, horrible death." Trump was unmoved when South African President Cyril Ramaphosa pushed back and said "that is not government policy" and "we are completely opposed to that."
"These are all white farmers that are being buried," Trump said as he held up an article with a photo.
But reports have since revealed that the photo Trump showed as evidence – a screenshot of a Reuters video – was not filmed in South Africa.
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