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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    12 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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      3 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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      7 hours ago

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