A White House meeting between President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa took an unexpected and dramatic turn on Wednesday, as Trump confronted his guest—and the press—with a brutal montage of footage exposing violent rhetoric and deadly threats against white farmers in South Africa.
The meeting, billed as a routine diplomatic engagement, came just days after the Trump administration made headlines by granting refugee status to white South African farmers fleeing persecution and targeted violence. Critics on the left slammed the move as racially selective, accusing Trump of favoring white refugees while overseeing mass deportations of illegal immigrants from Central and South America.
But if Trump was looking to silence those critics, he did so in typical Trumpian fashion—unapologetically and on camera.
“Turn the lights down. Turn the lights down and just put this on,” Trump instructed his staff, as reporters, advisors, and President Ramaphosa looked on.
What followed was a montage of clips featuring prominent members of Ramaphosa’s African National Congress (ANC) Party chanting incendiary slogans like “shoot to kill” and calling for the “slaughter” of white farmers. One clip showed a firebrand ANC member shouting on the floor of South Africa’s Parliament about land confiscation without compensation—an issue that has become a powder keg in the country.
Another portion of the video showed aerial footage of a deserted road lined with hundreds of white crosses. “Each one of those white things you see is a cross,” Trump narrated. “They’re all white farmers. The family of white farmers. It’s a terrible sight. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Ramaphosa, to his credit, had tried to head off the spectacle by offering a carefully worded defense of his administration’s policies. “No white genocide is happening here,” he told Trump. But the president wasn’t buying it.
“We have thousands of stories talking about it, and we have documentaries, we have news stories,” Trump said before rolling the clips.
Imagine even trying to predict a week, let alone a month, ago that Trump would corner South Africa's president in the Oval Office, in front of the world's press, and make him watch videos of South African politicians calling for white genocide. Insane.pic.twitter.com/OX07I4nHYi
— RAW EGG NATIONALIST (@Babygravy9) May 21, 2025
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Also present for the meeting was Elon Musk, himself a South African expat and one of the loudest voices warning of the growing hostility white farmers face in the country. Musk nodded quietly as the video rolled.
https://twitter.com/B7frankH/status/1925251697049272462
Back on Capitol Hill, the fallout was immediate. Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the Trump administration’s decision to prioritize the asylum applications of white South African farmers, calling it a humanitarian imperative.
Rubio was grilled by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who accused him of “racial favoritism.” Rubio fired back, “I didn’t say that, you did.”
Whether you agree with Trump’s dramatic Oval Office presentation or not, one thing is certain: the White House sent a message. And the world was watching.
Forbes: “Trump falsely claims White farmers are being kiIIed in South Africa”
Reality:
All Democrats in the media do is lie. pic.twitter.com/zgiCOJUQMf
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) May 21, 2025
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