While Cyril Ramaphosa was sitting in the Oval Office, President Trump played a video montage showing evidence of a "genocide" against white farmers in the African country.
SAVAGERY 🚨 While hosting the President of South Africa, President @realDonaldTrump showed footage of South African government officials calling for the killing of white farmers. pic.twitter.com/YNZuHXzUIt
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The Trump administration's video compilation showed the graves of more than a thousand white farmers and "it's a terrible sight... I've never seen anything like it. Those people are all killed."
Ramaphosa responded: "I'd like to know where that is because this [the alleged burial site in the video] I've never seen".
Regardless, Mr. Ramaphosa said his meeting with President Trump went "very well".
The White House's official account on X posted the footage that was shown in the Oval Office, saying it was "proof of persecution in South Africa".
Per Sky News, "South Africa has rejected the allegation that white people are disproportionately targeted by crime."
The Trump administration's video montage reportedly included one of a communist South African politician playing a controversial anti-apartheid song that features lyrics about murdering a farmer.