Politics
NEW: Trump Calls Out Anti-White Genocide In South Africa
When pressed on why his administration would allow Afrikaner refugees from South Africa to enter the United States while blocking asylum-seekers from war-torn African nations, President Trump didn’t hesitate on Monday.
“Because they’re being killed, and we don’t want to see people be killed,” Trump said in a press conference. “Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me, I understand, sometime next week. And you know, we’re supposed to have a—I guess a G20 meeting there or something. But we’re having a G20 meeting. I don’t know how we can go unless that situation’s taken care of.”
Trump went further, characterizing the violence against white farmers in South Africa as nothing short of genocide—a term that mainstream media and Western governments have been reluctant to use.
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place,” he said. “And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.”
While Trump made clear he does not care about race or color, saying, “I don’t care who they are. I don’t care about their race, their color. I don’t care about their height, their weight… I just know that what’s happening is terrible,” he highlighted a double standard in media coverage.
“If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they’d talk about,” Trump stated, criticizing the selective outrage from the press.
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His comments come amid growing concern from international observers and civil rights advocates about targeted attacks against white South African farmers. Civil rights group AfriForum has documented hundreds of farm attacks over the past decade, often marked by extreme violence and slow police response. In many cases, perpetrators are never caught.
South Africa remains one of the most violent countries on Earth, and rural white farmers have been disproportionately affected. Though the ruling African National Congress (ANC) has denied allegations of genocide, critics say the government’s rhetoric—particularly around land reform—has inflamed tensions.
The 2018 remarks by Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema—“We are not calling for the slaughter of white people—at least for now”—still loom large in the minds of many.
The ANC has insisted that its goal is restorative justice through land reform, not racial persecution. But Trump isn’t waiting for the bureaucrats or fact-checkers to catch up.
On Sunday, a group of 49 white South Africans, primarily Afrikaners, departed for the United States under a new refugee resettlement program announced by President Trump in February. The policy, established via executive order, accuses South Africa’s Black-led government of racial discrimination against Afrikaners and prioritizes their asylum claims ahead of other global refugee populations.
These individuals are the first cohort to benefit from this initiative, arriving at Dulles International Airport with support from U.S. agencies like the Department of Health and Human Services. Trump administration officials describe their migration as protection from “race-based persecution,” citing affirmative action and land expropriation laws as discriminatory.
However, the South African government refutes these claims, asserting no systemic racism against Afrikaners.
