At a tense White House meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, Donald Trump slammed what he called “white genocide” in South Africa—citing photos and videos he’d rifled through. Trouble is, one key image wasn’t even from South Africa.
📸 An image with the wrong caption
Trump held up a picture showing Red Cross workers carrying body bags. He claimed, “These are all white farmers that are being buried.” In reality, AFP uncovered that it’s footage of femicide victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo—women raped and burned alive—lifted from an Indian news clip using Reuters wire photos.
❌ False narrative exposed
That image appeared on American Thinker alongside a post fretting over South Africa’s land-expropriation law. But the photo has zero connection to those policies. Ramaphosa dismissed Trump’s genocide claims as “a false narrative,” noting no land seizures and no evidence that white farmers suffer more violence than Black farmers.
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