Donald Trump throws South Africa’s President “Genozid” in white

US President Donald Trump has covered the South African head of state Cyril Ramaphosa with allegations of an alleged “genocide” of white at a reception in the White House. Around 30 years after the end of the apartheid, Trump asked Ramaphosa on Wednesday declarations for the fate of white farmers in South Africa. People are “executed” in their homeland and their country is confiscated, the US President claimed.

The US President had repeatedly accused the government in Pretoria a “genocide” on the descendants of white colonialists who had immigrated to South Africa from the 17th century-mostly from the Netherlands, but partly also from Germany. Trump took up the conspiracy theory of a “white genocide”. Trump’s government had taken around 50 white South Africans last week as “refugees”.

Trump’s appearance in front of numerous reporters recalled the reception of the Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj in the White House at the end of February. At that time there was a scandal because Trump and Vice President JD Vance Selenskyj accused a lack of respect and gratitude. The encounter culminated from the White House in the Ukrainian President of the Ukrainian President.

Trump played Ramaphosa video recordings that are supposed to take his allegations. Many graves of white farmers can be seen on this, the US President claimed. In fact, one of the recordings comes from South Africa, but the crosses to be seen there are not – as Trump claims – for graves of killed farmers, but were part of a memorial event in September 2020. Accordingly, the crosses were not permanently next to the street, but were removed again. Trump also showed a number of articles about “death, death, death”.

Trump justifies his allegations against Ramaphosa with a law that enables the government in Pretoria in certain cases to expropriate white farmers without compensation. In the conflict, the Trump government frozen the help for South Africa in February. In March, the United States also showed the South African ambassador.

The white descendants of mostly Dutch settlers in South Africa are also privileged three decades after the end of apartheid. The white minority only includes around seven percent of the population, but still has a large part of the country.

Ramaphosa reacted prudently to Trump’s Tirade and replied that the statements and recordings do not correspond to the official government policy. “We learned from Nelson Mandela that people always have to sit at a table and talk about it when there are problems,” said the South African head of state. In the past, Trump had compared himself to the black anti-Apartheid fighter and later South African President Mandela because of his numerous judicial problems.

Ramaphosa could not be disturbed. He thanked Trump for the delivery of ventilation devices to South Africa during the Corona pandemic, gave him a 14 kilogram book with pictures of South African golf courses and brought professional golfers Ernie Els and Retief Goosen into the White House.

The conspiracy theories countered Ramaphosa with a joke. “I’m sorry that I don’t have a plane for her,” joked Ramaphosa. “I wish they had one,” replied Trump and received laughter. “If her country of the United States air force offered an airplane, I would accept it,” added the Republican.

The background is that, despite sharp criticism, Trump’s government accepts an expensive plane as a gift from the lead in Qatar. During the meeting of Trump and Ramaphosa, the Pentagon announced that in accordance with all rules and regulations, a Boeing 747 machine accepted, which is to be upgraded for Trump as a government plane Air Force One. According to reports, the aircraft has a value of around $ 400 million (currently 355 million euros).

The expensive gift from a foreign partner raises legal and ethical questions. Trump was approached by an NBC journalist on the plane during the meeting with Ramaphosa and realized it. “You don’t have what it takes to be a reporter. You are not smart enough,” Trump assumed journalist Peter Alexander. It was a “very nice thing” that the USA would get the plane. The broadcasting level of the transmitter should “be examined”, Trump continued. “You are so terrible … as you lead this station.” The Republican said to the reporter: “You are a shame.” He prohibited Alexander’s questions.