US President Donald Trump appears determined to hold on to the white genocide’ narrative even when it is proven to be false over and over again.
Upon being debunked by President Cyril Ramaphosa, a desperate Trump resorted to video footage of EFF leader Julius Malema addressing rallies and chanting ‘kill the boer, kill the farmer’ to bolster his false claim that white people were being slaughtered and their land seized.
A disappointed Ramaphosa could be seen literally restraining himself from laughing as Trump made nonsensical claims one after the other.
“If this happened here this man would have been arrested very quickly, why are you not arresting him,” asked Trump after showing the compilation of videos that bizarrely included that of former President Jacob Zuma singing at an ANC rally.
“We have multiparty democracy in South Africa which includes the right to freedom of speech so the individuals you see in the video are not part of government, they have a right to say whatever they want but there’s no such government policy in South Africa. The question of expropriation is a genuine measure, within the constitution, to right the wrongs of the part and I know you too have such laws in your country,” said a measured Ramaphosa after reluctantly viewing the footage.
The two leaders held a bilateral meeting at the White House where Trump also brandished a stack of articles he claimed documented the genocide taking place against white people in South Africa .
“Death of people, death, death, death, horrible death, death, these are all people that recently got killed,” said Trump as he quickly went through the stack of documents before handing it to the South African leader.
Trump claimed the photos of a “burial sites” of white farmers killed in South Africa much to Ramaphosa’s surprise.
“I’d like to know where that is because I have never seen this before,” replied Ramaphosa.
The EFF meanwhile criticised Ramaphosa accusing him of failing to defend South Africa’s laws including a Constitutional Court ruling declaring the chant ‘kill the boer’ as harmless political speak that should not and has not been meant nor interpreted literally. This after Ramaphosa told Trump he and his party, the ANC did not support the singing of the song.
“In an act of cowardice, Cyril Ramaphosa blatantly denounced the rulings of the courts of the country he is a President of, and this was then followed by insults from John Steenhuisen who then confirmed that they reached a pact with the African National Congress (ANC) to keep the EFF out of power. This pact was a clear collusion to prevent genuine transformation in South Africa,” said the EFF in an overnight statement.
While Trump ambushed Ramaphosa with a clear aim of embarrassing him, the South African leader calmly stood his ground, spoke respectfully and even got his host to agree to further talks on trade between the two countries reminding him that there’s more than 600 American companies that are active in South Africa already.