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President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa over his claims of genocide against White Afrikaners.
On Wednesday (May 21), Trump met with Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, where he continued to push claims that White Afrikaner farmers are being slaughtered and forced off their land, per Fox News.
Trump aired footage at the White House of the alleged grave treatment of White farmers, showing white crosses lining a road.
"Now this is very bad. 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 is approximately a thousand of them," Trump said. "They're all White farmers. The family of White farmers. And those cars aren't, driving, they are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed. And it's a terrible sight. I've never seen anything like it. On both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people are all killed."
"Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? I'd like to know where that is. Because this I've never seen," Ramaphosa asked Trump.
"I mean, it’s in South Africa, that’s where," Trump replied.
"We need to find out," Ramaphosa said.
Trump's meeting with the South African president comes after the first group of White Afrikaners flew to the U.S. under the administration's refugee plan amid alleged "race-based persecution."
Trump issued an executive order in February that accused the South African government of discrimination against Afrikaners and announced a refugee program offering to relocate them to the U.S. The Trump administration further claims the South African government is enacting racist, anti-white policies through affirmative action laws and targeting Afrikaners' land through a new land expropriation law. The U.S. has also alleged that Afrikaners are being targeted in racially motivated attacks in rural communities.
"We had a lot of people, I must tell you, Mr. President, we have had a tremendous number of people, especially since they've seen this, generally they're White farmers and they're fleeing South Africa. And it's, you know, it's a very sad thing to see, but, I hope we can have an explanation of that, because I know you don't want that," Trump told Ramaphosa on Wednesday.
Ramaphosa continued to deny Trump's claims of genocide and harassment.
"I'm not going to be repeating what I've been saying. I would say if there was Afrikaner farmer genocide, I can bet you these three gentlemen would not be here, including my Minister of Agriculture. He would not be with me. So it will take him, President Trump listening to their stories, to their perspectives, that is the answer to your question," Ramaphosa said.
At one point during the meeting, Trump held up a stack of papers that were articles covering the alleged genocide of White South Africans.
"Look, these are articles over the last few days," Trump said. "Death of people. Death. Death. Horrible death," Trump said as he started flipping through the sheets.
"White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws… So when you say, what would I like to do? I don't know what to do," he added.
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