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FactCheck.org reports:
Pointing to the screen, which showed an aerial view of a rural highway dotted on each side with white crosses, Trump said, “These are burial sites, right here. Burial sites — over a thousand of white farmers. And those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross and there’s approximately a thousand of them. They’re all white farmers. The family of white farmers.”
Rather than burial sites, as Trump claimed, the video showed a demonstration following the August 2020 murder of Glen and Vida Rafferty, who had been killed during a robbery at their farmhouse in Normandien, a rural area about 200 miles southeast of Johannesburg. The crosses along the road were meant to memorialize and draw attention to the many farmers who have been killed over the years.
Read the full article. Yesterday multiple outlets noted that printout held up by Trump was not a report on murdered white South African farmers, as he claimed, but showed Red Cross workers in the Congo tending to the bodies of black women raped and killed following a prison break.
Trump: “These are burial sites. Over a thousand white farmers…Those people were all killed.”
President Ramaphosa: “I would like to know where this is because this I’ve never seen.”
Trump: “It’s in South Africa.” pic.twitter.com/En08kyCk4b
— The Bulwark (@BulwarkOnline) May 21, 2025
The talking points went out to the fake news…
Trump “ambushed” the president of South Africa by playing a video montage of South African leaders calling for White genocide.
The media is complicit. pic.twitter.com/zTNqAE0OIf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2025
During his incendiary Oval Office meeting with South Africa’s president, Trump played a video that he said showed “burial sites” for “over a thousand of white farmers.” Except it didn’t. @RileyMellen @AricToler fact check.https://t.co/N6crwcxNg5
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) May 22, 2025