Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading
The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.
“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.
Doesn’t mean that we don’t have a violence issue in South Africa. Our killing stats are on par with countries at war. Think about that for a minute
No one is saying that South Africa doesn’t have a violence problem just that “white genocide” is a lie.
Indeed the president of South Africa said exactly that in the meeting.
I recall the SA president saying they do have a violence problem, just not in the way trump is describing it.
Yes sorry I was unclear. The South African president said that South Africa has a violence problem, not just for white farmers.
Ah, got it!
Sorry, I meant no one in this post. It’s not shocking that thr president would try to downplay someth8ng like that.
SA is violent however there isn’t an attempt by the government to genocide the white population
Any theories why?
Well I did a little research and there was this thing called Apartheid. It sounded pretty bad. Might have something to do with the race relations out there.
I was 6 years old when apartheid ended. My parents and many white people didn’t agree with it. You probably don’t know much about it. I had fuck all to do with it, but because I happen to be white it is my fault?
Our major problem is unemployment, our government policies are not business friendly. Keep hammering at that keyboard pal.