Donald Trump's comments about South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa shocked the world when he called him a fraud who is overseeing a white genocide in his home country. In the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician from both parties has been desperate to uphold for decades.
00:00:00.000Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it's fair to call Cyril Ramaphoso, one of the few
00:00:18.000surviving founding fathers of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped to write the country's
00:00:23.300new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also
00:00:28.360oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness
00:00:32.780and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphoso gradually accumulated more wealth and power until
00:00:37.440he finally became the country's president in 2018. He's currently worth something like half a billion
00:00:42.320dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africans now live in extreme poverty. What
00:00:48.260this means is that Ramaphoso is the personification of South Africa's post-colonial experiment. When
00:00:54.400he drafted the new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that by 2025, the country would
00:00:59.060have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world at 40%. He certainly didn't
00:01:04.540tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white
00:01:08.960farmers or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all that has
00:01:13.700happened. And yet for all this time, no one and certainly no world leader has held this deranged
00:01:19.820despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it's been something of a tradition in Washington to
00:01:24.580pretend that South Africa is somehow a great ally to the United States and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty
00:01:30.340as Joe Biden did a few years ago. But that tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office
00:01:36.420when Donald Trump did something that no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa to
00:01:41.720his face in the most public form imaginable that he's a fraud who is overseeing a white genocide.
00:01:47.660In the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician from both parties
00:01:53.300has been desperate to uphold for several decades. Now, in order to understand the importance of what
00:01:59.980Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course,
00:02:05.540Ramaphosa asked the United States for money because that's any visiting dignitary now. That's just that's
00:02:11.860what they do. They come hat in hand as beggars asking for our money. And in this case,
00:02:17.420he's done that because he's he's run his country into the ground and they can't even feed themselves
00:02:21.500anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about what it would take for Trump to
00:02:26.640stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words,
00:02:31.360the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying.
00:02:35.760And here's how that went. Our main, main real reason for being here is to foster trade and investment
00:02:45.700so that we are able to grow our economy, your support. And so that we are also able to address
00:02:53.660all these societal problems because criminality thrives when people are unemployed, when they have
00:03:00.640no other hope to eke out a living. So that is what we need to resolve.
00:03:05.640Mr. President, what will it take for you to be convinced that there's no white genocide in South Africa?
00:03:12.640Well, I can answer that for President.
00:03:15.640It will take President Trump listening to the voices of South Africa, some of whom are his good friends.
00:03:35.340So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa validates what the reporter is saying, patronizes, is being patronizing
00:03:46.180to the president of the United States, to our president. He says Donald Trump needs to listen
00:03:51.600to the people of South Africa in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people.
00:03:56.440Probably the most obnoxious answer that he could have come up with, especially after dozens of South Africans
00:04:00.080just fled the country in fear of their lives. But Trump was prepared for it. First of all,
00:04:04.680Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him, this is a two-time U.S. Open winner
00:04:11.580named Ratif Goosen, what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his
00:04:17.280father's friends who own farms had been murdered and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch.
00:04:24.020I grew up in an area in South Africa that is a farmland area, Polakwani. And there is some issues up there,
00:04:32.600obviously. My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of these buddy farmers
00:04:40.900got killed. The farm is still going. My brother's running. But it's a constant battle with farms trying
00:04:48.500to get, they're trying to burn the farms down to chase you away. So it is a concern to try and make a living as a farmer.
00:04:57.500And at the end, they, you know, without farmers, there's no food on the plate. So we need, we need
00:05:02.700the farmers to produce the food. He wouldn't do it. He wouldn't even want to do what you're doing.
00:05:07.000They love farming. They don't want to leave. But it's a struggle. Yeah. And, you know, food, food and fresh water
00:05:13.740is the most important thing in life. You know, about those two things you can't supply. How is the water there?
00:05:19.100The water is great, obviously. All the water comes out of the borehole, out of ground for us.
00:05:26.300None of them. But yeah, it is a battle to get the water out sometimes when all the equipment gets stolen all the time that you're trying to get the water out.
00:05:34.100So does your family and your brother, do they feel safe on the farm?
00:05:37.100They live behind electric fences, you know, try and be at night safe. But it is, it is constant whenever you leave that, that something could happen.
00:05:50.100And, you know, both of them has been attacked in their houses. My mom's been attacked in the house when she was 80. So it is, it is difficult.
00:06:02.100So this is a pretty extraordinary moment, because keep in mind, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office
00:06:10.100as part of the South Africa's, you know, delegation, hoping he'd neutralize the supposedly fake narrative, quote unquote, about white genocide.
00:06:18.100This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded obnoxiously that Trump listen to.
00:06:24.100He said, all you have to do is listen to these people. And then it's like, you know, this is essentially a witness for the defense, you know, basically.
00:06:32.100And this is what he says. So it didn't exactly go as planned, which probably tells you something about the level of planning that South Africa's government is capable of.
00:06:42.100And things only got worse from there as Trump dimmed the lights in the Oval Office and played a tape of South African politicians openly calling for the murders of white farmers.
00:06:51.100In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa's bluff. He listened to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans and he made Ramaphosa and the rest of the world listen to it as well.
00:07:01.100And as you watch this, notice the expression on the South African president's face as he genuinely cannot believe what's happening. Watch.
00:07:10.100It has to be responded to. Let me see the articles, please, if you would. And excuse me, turn the lights down. Turn the lights down and just put this on. It's right behind you.
00:07:23.100There's nothing you can do. There's nothing this parliament can do. With or without you, people are going to occupy land. We require no permission from you, from the president, from no one.
00:07:36.100We don't care. We don't care. We can do whatever you want to do. Who are you to tell us whether we can occupy land or not? We are going to occupy land, South Africa.
00:07:45.100A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing because the killing is part of a revolution act.
00:07:55.100Soon to kill the mother. Kill the poor, the farmer. Kill the poor, the farmer.
00:08:06.100Kill the poor, the farmer. Kill the poor, the farmer. Kill the poor, the farmer.
00:08:15.100Look, these are articles over the last few days. Death of people. Death. Death. Death.
00:08:27.100Horrible death. Death. I don't know. To pick anyone. White South Africans are fleeing because of the violence and racist laws. And this is all. I mean, I'll give these to you.
00:08:43.100So when you say, what would I like to do? I don't know what to do. Look at this. White South African couples say that they were attacked violently.
00:08:52.100Well, I could do that. Look, here's burial sites all over the place. These are all white farmers that are being buried.
00:09:01.100So just, I mean, it's an incredible moment. Again, remember the South African president, what cued this up perfectly.
00:09:09.100And, um, you, I mean, you couldn't have, you could not have scripted it any better, uh, where the South African president said, well, what, you know, what Trump needs to do is just listen.
00:09:20.100And so then Trump says, okay, we'll listen. Yeah, let's, let's do that. Let's, Hey, what do you think? Let's all listen. Let's all, let's all just listen for a moment.
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00:10:04.320Try to imagine that you run South Africa. You're in charge of the African National Congress, not exactly an enviable position. Your country has the highest unemployment rate in the entire world. Since the end of apartheid, which was supposedly the greatest evil to ever befall mankind, a lot of bad things have been happening. The power grid has collapsed along with the export markets and any semblance of public safety.
00:10:24.340Headlines like this one are common. As you can see, it reads,
00:10:29.280Grandmother 71 dies of shock after she was forced to watch her three granddaughters being raped at gunpoint at her home in South Africa.
00:10:36.960And there's plenty more where that came from because you have turned your country into the living embodiment of DEI to disastrous results.
00:10:43.220And then, to your horror, the President of the United States decides to shine an international spotlight on your incompetence.
00:10:49.500He makes it impossible to hide what's going on in South Africa.
00:10:52.980Specifically, the President allows white citizens of South Africa to flee to the U.S.
00:10:57.000so they can escape all the anti-white violence and race-based land seizures that you've implemented in your failing country.
00:11:02.840And unsurprisingly, a lot of white people take the United States up on the offer.
00:11:06.420They decide that it's better to uproot their entire families and fly halfway across the world than to spend another second under your rule in South Africa.
00:11:14.580Now, if you have an ounce of shame, that would have to be extremely, monumentally embarrassing.
00:11:21.340I mean, there are politicians in Japan who would quit, you know, quite literally commit, like, ritualistic suicide under those circumstances.
00:11:28.440The job of any government is to look after the well-being of its own people.
00:11:34.300And once the most productive members of society start leaving at great personal cost to themselves, then you have failed as a leader and as a government.
00:11:47.800And you should resign in shame at the absolute minimum.
00:11:51.440But the African National Congress has decided on the opposite course of action.
00:11:54.240And rather than engage in any kind of introspection, they decided to attack the white refugees who have just fled to America.
00:12:00.100They're not showing any interest in keeping any of the remaining Afrikaners from fleeing, even though they're responsible for maintaining the vast majority of usable farmland in the country.
00:12:09.560They're also not interested in contesting the notion that white people are going to be persecuted in their country.
00:12:14.620Instead, the African National Congress released this statement the other day.
00:12:19.300As you can see, the statement reads, quote,
00:12:21.360They flee not from persecution, but from justice, equality, and accountability for historic privilege.
00:12:27.260The statement goes on to describe the refugees as cowardly and says that they are offended by a democratic society working to redress past injustices.
00:12:34.600Then there's this concluding line, which really sells the message.