Other images displayed by Trump during meeting with South African president Cyril Ramaphosa were false or misleading

The evidence of supposed mass killings of white South Africans presented by Donald Trump in a tense White House meeting on Wednesday were in some cases images from the Democratic Republic of Congo, while footage shown during the meeting was falsely portrayed as depicting “burial sites”.

“These are all white farmers that are being buried,” said Trump, holding up a print-out of an article accompanied by a picture during the contentious Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.

The picture accompanying the article was in fact a screengrab of a video published by Reuters on 3 February and subsequently verified by the news agency’s fact check team, showing humanitarian workers lifting body bags in the Congolese city of Goma. The image was pulled from Reuters footage shot after deadly battles with Rwanda-backed M23 rebels.

  • anarchyrabbit@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Also doesn’t mean that the radical party EFF lead by Julius Malema (also known as Cunt) does not sing Kill the Boer at the rallies. Boer is Afrikaans for a farmer, it is also common slang for a white Afrikaner. If you think that is ok to do, you can fuck right off.

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      17 hours ago

      I’ll be honest with you I don’t give a god damn fuck. Kids getting bombed in Gaza, whatever trump cares about I do not. if he cares about white African farmers I do not.

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        17 hours ago

        My comment had nothing to say about Gaza. But OK I understand your view, killing of some is ok…

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          7 hours ago

          It doesn’t matter what you said, I’m speaking about the goals of Trump which are part of what you’re talking about and my point stands.

          If there was a button that I could press and kill one white African to save one person in Gaza I’d be pressing it all day long. White Africans are fine, often descendants of assholes and usually assholes themselves. They’re fine

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          12 hours ago

          Can you point me to any examples of white genocide in South Africa? Surely there would be at least one news article.

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            27 minutes ago

            Look at my other comment. I said their is a massive violence problem in south Africa. It’s a fact. When you have 25000 killings in a year that is not normal. Children, old women being raped and hacked to death. Anyone for that matter is not OK. You all don’t understand the situation you choose what you want to read, when you have family or friends that have been killed violently let’s talk again. Keep banging at those keyboards. At least my country had the balls to take Israel to the icj. I fucking dare one of you to spend 6 months here, I bet you wouldn’t last a fucking week.