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.
“Look at me, i am the fake news now” -Dictator Donnie
Now???
- the rest of the world
funny how the racists come out in the comments as soon as any thread mentions white genocide.
Like he can tell the difference.
Evergreen
I once got into an argument with a south African on reddit about white genocide. Even over there it’s a political issue, but the way he and many people describe it makes it seem like if you even set foot there as a white person you’ll get mugged.
I was saying I lived there for six months, spent a lot of town in the townships where it was only black people, and I legit never once was harmed. Yeah it’s dangerous but like, they act like they’ve never been in a dangerous neighborhood in the states.
But because I was an American sharing this perspective and they were South African, I got relentlessly shamed by redditors. To be fair I get where they’re coming from. If you have no clue about the issue and someone from another country trying to say something said about that persons own country is BS, it doesn’t look good. But it’s literally a political topic and he was coming at it from the extreme right perspective. Because I’m an American, like a dozen people took away from that thread that white genocide is real.
I am no stranger to Africa but - I blend in. White genocide is not a thing. They took land from the original inhabitants who were not white. They should leave, go back to Holland or wherever they came from apparently they will fit in well with Maga USA. Those white farmers can absolutely get fucked. And Trunp too.
They should leave, go back to Holland or wherever they came from
They didn’t take land. Their ancestors did. They were born and grew up in South Africa.
And yes, they benefitted from an absolutely horrible system of apartheid.
But telling them to “go back where they came from” is racist AF, just like it is when said to a brown person in the States. Don’t be that guy. They are where they came from.
And it’s always land, isn’t it. Inheriting some land, in this day and age, is worth much less than a good education.
Inheriting industries is much more problematic and can be solved, completely without reference to skin colour, by taxation. To fund the previously mentioned education.
Quick, post it a third time
It just applies in so many situations!!! 🤷♂️
It’s the same situation.
If there’s a continent where white genocide is justified, Africa sure is a front runner!
Well
Where is Congo?
Is it in the north?
I rest my case /s
I heard the photos were supplied by the US based neo fucking Nazi group American Tinker.
Ramaphosa was right to ask “I’d like to know where that is”, when the “evidence” was shown to him live.
Other world leaders should be prepared to challenge Trump right to his face when he fabricates lies like this in those pathetic ambush attempts.
To choose SA of all places for this particular agenda has to be the most ironic thing I’ve heard in a while 🤦♂️ quite brave asw considering Musk’s family history
Lying liar lies again.
Honestly, I don’t know if he’s knowingly lying or just genuinely fucking stupid.
Fascists can never admit that they’re wrong, becauae then their vaneer of being infallible immediately falls apart.
I still remember back in 2015-2016 when 4chan called Trump “God Emperor.” That mentality hasn’t gone away. Fascism is a cult.
The only “truth” that fascists believe is the “truth” of the fascist leader. Trump even calls his social media platform “Truth Social” FFS. It couldn’t be more blatent.
In his defence (feels dirty and weird typing that) he’s probably being lied to. I have very little clue about the legitimacy of information I get on world news, as everybody has an agenda and misinformation is so easy to create and disseminate. If he’s got to be on the case with basically every issue, he’ll just be getting fed information and has to trust that his advisors know what they’re doing. I wouldn’t bother fact checking everything if I were in that position, there’s simply not enough hours in the day.
Of course he’s also a confirmed liar and a known prick so who knows.
Fun fact, it’s both! He knows he’s lying all the time and doesn’t care. He’s also stupid.
That is certainly a fact, but I’m not sure I’d consider it a fun one.
This is the right answer. Life has already shown him that operating on a level playing field and being honest, really doesn’t get a guy like him very far. So the genius workaround is to lie your pants off instead, and build an alternative environment around yourself where you can’t lose.
My theory is that he’s so narcissistic that he genuinely believes every thought that comes into his mind is the truth.
hes like the system lords, they believe in thier own bs, because of thier narccistic personalities, except one.
You can tell he is lying because he’s talking
Same energy.
How does that happen? Who goes “text text text, blah blah blah, now I need a specific flag, let’s definitely type ‘flag’ and tediously look for the right one, because typing [country name] would be too easy”? I get that they look VERY similar and I couldn’t tell you which one is which if they’re side-by-side but that doesn’t fucking matter if you simply ask your keyboard for the country! Gaaaaaawddddddd.
Romania: 🇷🇴 Chad: 🇹🇩
Same for stereotypical USians going “yeeeeah 🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷”
Legit identical on my phone.
Also I use the Liberia flag ironically all the time. It’s fun to see who notices.
There’s a miniscule difference in the yellow. Also eeeever so slightly more “shine” in Chad’s red.
source believe me bro
Not for me
This is what I see.
i second
SDE
I don’t think anybody in our federal government that’s in charge of anything has any good intentions at all at this point
he would have said that these were real coffins for white farmers children if they didn’t have the palestinian flag on them.
What is this photograph? Isn’t it AI?
It was a demonstration in London: https://www.sopaimages.com/galleries/62294
Worse, it’s an image of Britain.
A lot of really distateful comments here, genuinely surprised they weren’t deleted by mods
