{"id":2437954,"date":"2025-05-22T12:34:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-attacks-trump-asking-who-is-killing-south-african-farmers\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:36:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T16:36:41","slug":"media-attacks-trump-asking-who-is-killing-south-african-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-attacks-trump-asking-who-is-killing-south-african-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Attacks Trump Asking Who Is Killing South African Farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-attacks-trump-asking-who-is-killing-south-african-farmers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2437954&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Teh article discusses a meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, which was criticized by the media.Trump raised concerns about violence against white farmers in South Africa, which he claimed was part of a broader issue of alleged genocide, a premise that drew skepticism from outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post. Critics portrayed Trump&#8217;s dialog with Ramaphosa as contentious, yet the meeting was described as polite by those present. Trump presented evidence of violent rhetoric against white farmers, including a video of south African leader Julius Malema calling for violence. Despite the media&#8217;s dismissal of Trump&#8217;s claims, some attendees acknowledged the reality of the situation, indicating a serious concern for the safety of farmers in South Africa. Ramaphosa&#8217;s governance faced challenges regarding crime but maintained that efforts were underway to address violence against all citizens, not just a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-rfk-jr-to-address-jewish-community-ahead-of-town-hall-event\/\" title=\"LIVE: RFK Jr. speaks to Jewish community before town hall event.\">specific ethnic group<\/a>. the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >article highlights diverging narratives<\/a> between media portrayals and the complexities of the political and social issues in South Africa.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Which is worse: murdering people or a discussion attempting to end murders?<\/p>\n<p>The shameless <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-county-that-voted-for-biden-to-lose-100-million-over-mlb-relocating-game-after-biden-remarks-report\/\" title=\"Georgia County That Voted For Biden To Lose 0+ Million Over MLB Relocating Game After Biden Remarks: Report\">propaganda press<\/a> heaped criticism on President Donald Trump on Wednesday for daring to talk with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa about alleged genocide in his country, reported by white South African farmers seeking refuge in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>With coordinated messaging, the mighty propaganda brotherhood portrayed honest communication as a bad thing, calling the conversation an &ldquo;ambush&rdquo; over &ldquo;debunked conspiracy theories.&rdquo;  <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Minutes after the meeting, The New York Times characterized it as &ldquo;contentious.&rdquo; It wasn&rsquo;t. Both Trump and Ramaphosa were polite and courteous throughout the discussion. The Times filed the story so quickly that it had no time to investigate. But it was still able to assert that Trump made &ldquo;false genocide claims.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>In February, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-south-africa-apartheid-musk-1be10eb4e443682501f2d7bc5aa0b893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued<\/a> an executive order freezing aid to South Africa and giving Afrikaners refugee status in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Afrikaners are a white ethnic group with primarily Dutch ancestry. Many are farmers. Trump said in the meeting that white farmers are having their homes burned, their farms seized, and have either been killed or fear for their lives.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parliament.gov.za\/storage\/app\/media\/Acts\/2024\/Act_13_of_2024_Expropriation_Act_2024.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">law<\/a> that allows the government to take land from farmers without compensation.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post minimized the deaths of white farmers, saying violence in South Africa is not isolated to rural areas and not only against white people.  Apparently if one group is victimized, then another group is victimized, none of the victimization matters. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;South Africa does not release crime statistics based on race, which makes it difficult to identify killings of White farmers,&rdquo; The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2025\/05\/21\/trump-south-africa-white-afrikaners-violence\/?utm_campaign=wp_main&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reads<\/a>. &ldquo;Official police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/6-7-million-covid-vaccines-given-in-u-s-with-70-of-available-doses-unused\/\" title=\"6.7 million COVID Vaccines Given in U.S. With 70% of Available Doses Unused\">data shows<\/a> 12 people were killed on farms between October and December 2024 &mdash; a period during which 6,953 people were murdered in the country. South Africa has one of the highest homicide rates in the world, the data shows, and has been plagued by violent crime for decades.<\/p>\n<p>The Post fails to connect the long-held desire to seize land from white farmers with their deaths. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lying on behalf of genocidal racists is pretty on brand for the WashPost.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1925299677693345849?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Similarly, PBS wants folk to know that yes, white farmers have been murdered. But not many. Not enough to matter. Not enough to say genocide. The left gets hung up on the word genocide, but it doesn&rsquo;t value individual lives. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>White farmers have been murdered in South Africa. But those murders account for less than 1% of more than 27,000 annual murders nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Experts said the deaths do not amount to genocide, and President Donald Trump misleads about land confiscation. (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PolitiFact?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PolitiFact<\/a>)&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; PBS News (@NewsHour) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsHour\/status\/1925271647872807169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump was not addressing all the deaths in the country. He was looking at a segment of deaths that are politically motivated and are preventable. Everyone in the room acknowledged that connection and agreed something should be done. But the Washington Post and many others presented  these deaths as a myth. <\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday&rsquo;s Oval Office meeting, filled with members of the media, Trump said Ramaphosa called him and asked for the meeting. After brief conversation, a reporter asked Trump what it would take to convince him that there&rsquo;s no white genocide in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the administration has heard thousands of stories about violence against white farmers. Then he had the lights dimmed and showed Ramaphosa videos of people in South Africa calling for the killing of white farmers. <\/p>\n<p>In the video,<a href=\"https:\/\/effonline.org\/central-command-teams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Julius Malema<\/a>, leader of the<a href=\"https:\/\/effonline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Marxism-FAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Marxist <\/a>Economic Freedom Fighter<a href=\"https:\/\/effonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Party<\/a>, led a violent chant inside a large stadium , as supporters danced and chanted along.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Shoot to kill the farmer! Go after the white man! You are going to run, white farmer.&rdquo; &nbsp;The video ended with cars lined up on a desolate road with some 1,000 crosses lining the road, each representing a dead farmer, Trump relayed. In the cars were family members there to mourn.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa asked where the line of cars was, saying he had never seen it before.<\/p>\n<p>Next there was silence in the room for about 40 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Silence is a powerful moment in negotiation. Whoever breaks silence first loses. Trump told Ramaphosa before the troubling video that he wanted to know what he had to say about it. Now a pall fell over the room as everyone, the president, the media, the world waited for Ramaphosa to speak.<\/p>\n<p>And the loser was: NBC&rsquo;s Peter Alexander, who broke the silence, changed the topic, and ruined the moment, but saved Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Mr. President, the Pentagon announced they would be accepting a Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One &mdash;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Trump cut him off, saying the jet was a great thing. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;re talking about a lot of other things here. This is NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw,&rdquo; Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Usually the propaganda press interferes with foreign affairs through its reporting, but Alexander interfered in real time.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump Takedown: &#8220;It&#8217;s NBC trying to get off the subject of what you just saw. You&#8217;re a TERRIBLE reporter. You&#8217;re a disgrace. You don&#8217;t have what it takes to be a reporter. You&#8217;re not smart enough.&rdquo; NBC Reporter Peter Alexander now understands that President Trump will not put up&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W8torFIm7e\">pic.twitter.com\/W8torFIm7e<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; John Cremeans (@JohnCremeansX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCremeansX\/status\/1925304877154009514?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump managed to get the conversation back on track, questioning Ramaphosa on farmers being killed .<\/p>\n<p>You would not know it from news reports calling the meeting an &ldquo;ambush,&rdquo; but Ramaphosa didn&rsquo;t deny people have died, just that it was not his fault.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>The talking points went out to the fake news&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>Trump &ldquo;ambushed&rdquo; the president of South Africa by playing a video montage of South African leaders calling for White genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The media is complicit. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTNqAE0OIf\">pic.twitter.com\/zTNqAE0OIf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1925301539431752162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Ramaphosa said that Julius Malema, shown in the videos, is not in his administration but from a much smaller opposition political party. Trump estimated 100,000 people chanting in the stadium, saying this is not a small movement.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN, ABC, Forbes and others claim that there are no calls for violence against White farmers in South Africa. Here&rsquo;s the reality. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4euXC8gVh6\">pic.twitter.com\/4euXC8gVh6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1925267461915484364?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;Why wouldn&rsquo;t you arrest that man?&rdquo; Trump asked. &ldquo;That man said, &lsquo;Kill the white farmers. Kill the white farmers.&rsquo; And then he danced, and he&rsquo;s dancing, dancing, and it&rsquo;s &lsquo;Kill the white farmers.&rsquo; I think, I&rsquo;m not sure, but I think if somebody got up in Parliament and started saying, &lsquo;kill&rsquo; a certain group of people that you would be in, he would be arrested very quickly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Trump mentioned the law allowing the seizure of property, which Ramaphosa acknowledged. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;People are fleeing South Africa for their own safety. Their land is being confiscated, and in many cases, they&rsquo;re being killed,&rdquo; Trump said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re being inundated with people, with white farmers from South Africa. And a it&rsquo;s big problem. Marco Rubio was telling me he&rsquo;s never seen anything like it. The numbers of people that want to leave South Africa because they feel they&rsquo;re going to be dead.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa noted that John Steenhuisen, his Minister of Agriculture, is white and asked him to speak.<\/p>\n<p>Steenhuisen said that there are memorials for people who have died from &ldquo;farm attacks.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a real safety problem. I don&rsquo;t think anyone wants to candy coat it, and it requires a lot of effort to get on top of it. It is going to require more policing resources. It&rsquo;s going to require different strategies to be able to deal with it,&rdquo; Steenhuisen said. &ldquo;The majority of South Africa&rsquo;s commercial and smaller farmers really do want to stay in South Africa and make it work.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaphosa said the U.S. could help with resources so the government can respond to the violence but did not specify if he wanted money or equipment. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is asking for aid to combat violence the propaganda press says doesn&rsquo;t exist. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. 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