Trump Confronts the South African President
In another remarkable bit of White House theater, just as with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky and Canada’s Mark Carney, the American president took to task a foreign dignitary within the Oval Office.
At first glance, last night’s cold-blooded murder of a young Jewish couple in our nation’s capital might not seem to have anything in common with the race-based murders of white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa.
At first glance.
But both are acts of political violence, and political violence, as we know, comes almost exclusively from the Left — whether by attempting to assassinate an American president, or terrorizing Supreme Court justices and their families, or shooting a healthcare CEO in the back, or murdering a young Jewish couple and then waving a keffiyeh and shouting “Free Palestine!” or raping and murdering and stealing the land of farmers whose ancestors began tilling that same soil around the same time the Mayflower set sail across the Atlantic.
Of course, these acts of violence don’t just spring up out of nowhere. In every case, there’s an incitement, often many of them — whether it’s a dirtbag like Johnny Depp publicly pondering “the last time an actor assassinated a president,” or Chuck Schumer declaring that Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh will “pay the price” for their constitutional jurisprudence.
In South Africa, the incitement clearly comes from its leftist political parties — such as the Marxist Economic Freedom Fighters and the nationalist-socialist uMkhonto weSizwe, both of which condone land seizures and race-based violence against the country’s white Afrikaner farmers.
It’s against this backdrop, then, that President Donald Trump discovered an immigrant group that the Left can’t tolerate when he designated Afrikaners as refugees. “It is a genocide that is taking place that you people don’t want to write about,” Trump told reporters last week. “It’s a terrible thing that’s taking place, and farmers are being killed. They happen to be white, but whether they are white or black makes no difference to me.”
Whether they are white or black makes no difference to me.
That there is the key. Unlike those on the Left, Trump doesn’t see everything through a racial prism. And because of this color-blindness, he’s able to ambush and call out a lying tinpot regardless of the color of his skin.
Such was the case yesterday, when Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa after having stated that the country is engaged in the genocide of white Afrikaner farmers.
Trump, whose flair for the dramatic has remade the very notion of the once-soporific White House presser, then ordered the lights within the Oval Office to be dimmed, theater style, in order to show a disturbing five-minute video of both political incitement and crimes against the Afrikaners.
:fire: SAVAGE TRUMP: President Trump dims Oval Office lights, shows South Africa’s president videos of their leaders calling for KILLING white farmers.
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) May 21, 2025
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As the New York Post reports, “The footage played at the meeting showed left-wing populist [Economic Freedom Fighters] leader Julius Malema calling for the murder of members of South Africa’s 4.5 million-strong white community, which comprises about 7.3% of the population, and a roadside memorial ostensibly for dozens of murdered white farmers.”
Based on the numbers, it’s perhaps a stretch to call what’s happening in South Africa a genocide, but remember: Leftists routinely call what the Israel Defense Forces are doing to the murdering dogs of Hamas a “genocide,” and this has helped create the Jew-hating culture that now infects our nation’s “elite” college campuses and the streets of our nation’s capital. So by using the term “genocide,” Trump is giving the campus anti-Semites a taste of their own medicine.
Besides, if the Left can call a couple hundred yahoos clashing with Capitol Police an “insurrection” that “nearly ended” “our democracy,” well, they’re on awfully thin ice and living in a glass house when it comes to literalism.
The meeting, as Newsweek reports, “began cordially, with Trump welcoming his South African counterpart to the White House and [speaking] of his pleasure at Ramaphosa bringing major-winning golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen as part of his South African delegation to the White House.” But neither Els nor Goosen would serve as political props for Ramaphosa, with Els saying, “We want to see things get better in our home country, that’s the bottom line,” and Goosen admitting that his own family members are afraid of what’s happening.
Ramaphosa, you might say, got a version of the Zelensky treatment.
It used to be that a foreign dignitary would jump at the chance to be seen at the White House with the American president. Going forward? Perhaps not so much.
Editor’s note 5/23/25: Reuters gloats that a “fact-check” undermines Trump’s case. Part of Trump’s evidence was “a screenshot of Reuters video taken in the Democratic Republic of Congo,” which Reuters subsequently confirmed “showed humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma.” If true, that’s shoddy work by White House staffers to not verify what they knew would be scrutinized by the Leftmedia to hurt Trump. Left-wingers are incredibly eager to prove that whites in South Africa are just fine. Of the idea that there’s a “genocide” in South Africa, Reuters even said near its conclusion, “This conspiracy theory, which has circulated in far-right chat rooms for years, is based on false claims.” And you can definitely trust Reuters to never make false claims.
