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The media pounces on a small Trump error to distract from the bigger truth about South Africa
American Thinker ^ | 22 May, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 05/23/2025 5:55:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Or, how I unwittingly became involved in an international news cycle.

As you’ve no doubt heard, when South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, appeared in the White House yesterday, President Trump challenged him on the fact that South Africa’s white farmers are being targeted with a new land confiscation law, and are also the victims of targeted attacks, another layer of hazard in a land rife with violent crime. It’s for this reason that Trump gave visas to a paltry 58 white South Africans, sending the Democrats—the same ones who’ve been complacent as upwards of 32 million illegal aliens breached our borders—into paroxysms of race-based rage.

When Ramaphosa denied that white South Africans are being officially and unofficially targeted, Trump said au contraire, and brought out the receipts. After Trump showed a video of a huge rally during which South African politician Julius Malema led the tens of thousands of assembled rally-goers in an old apartheid-era chant of “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,” reporters instantly tried to change the subject by talking about the jet Qatar is giving to the U.S. government, Trump dragged it back to South Africa, flipping through a stack of articles his aides had handed him.

I’ve queued up the video to begin where he brings out those other receipts: [video at link]

Three of those sources are from American Thinker. One might be this essay by Olivia Murray, although it’s a little hard to tell. The other is this one, which I wrote: “Let’s talk about Africa, which is where tribalism takes you.”

The point of my post is that the Democrat party’s efforts to bring racial tribalism to America can only lead to disaster, and I pointed to Africa as an example of the societal collapse that comes from focusing on tribalism.

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1 posted on 05/23/2025 5:55:03 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Trump set that up pretty well. His error about the Congo photo being in South Africa, from Andreas article, was a small one.


2 posted on 05/23/2025 5:55:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Whoever on his staff did that, should be seriously demoted


3 posted on 05/23/2025 6:05:35 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: MtnClimber

A google search for “SA genocide” will show that the internet media are doing their duty as good little communists and are giving the official leftist propaganda on the subject.

You can even search for “sa whites murder blacks” and it will give you the SAME results as sa blacks murder whites.

The left really doesn’t want you to know that Whites are being set up for elimination, and all their belongings seized and redistributed.


4 posted on 05/23/2025 6:18:23 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT! )
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To: MtnClimber

A good tactic would be to publish the crime report of a white farmer home invasion. The details are ghastly. The SA Mau Mau are savages.


5 posted on 05/23/2025 6:23:48 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul (quan)
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To: MtnClimber

“Trump showed a video of a huge rally during which South African politician Julius Malema led the tens of thousands of assembled rally-goers in an old apartheid-era chant of “Kill the Boer, kill the farmer,”

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President Trump should make that video a commercial and run the hell out of it....ESPECIALLY on nbc.


6 posted on 05/23/2025 6:23:52 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: MtnClimber

They never said ONE THING about Bidet’s THOUSANDS of gaffes, lies, mistakes and outright treason.

F the press.


7 posted on 05/23/2025 6:32:02 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: MtnClimber

This is their MO, modus operandi. Use a small thing to distort and distract.

At the same time I sometimes think Trump uses small errors or similar things to cause them to harp on a topic to keep it in the public debate.

The truth will out if a topic is not ignored.


8 posted on 05/23/2025 6:39:04 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MtnClimber

It’s amazing what Trump can get the left to support just by taking a position on something. Now he has them supporting killing farmers because of the color of their skin.

It’s becoming embarrassing to watch. What’s next.

EC


9 posted on 05/23/2025 6:45:53 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: I want the USA back

When the nazis started passing anti-jewish laws in the 1930’s it was not termed as “ genocide’…yet. The 140+ racial laws imposed on South Africans since the nearly 40 yrs ago end of apartheid….mimic this historical example of how a real genocide is built, in stages.

Many Jews in the 1930’s were in self-denial, would not have thought they were victims of “ genocide” even as their govt authorities gradually conditioned them and the non-Jewish public to accept Jewish subservience to discrimination and dehumanization. Just as the ANC and extremist black nationalists are herding South Africa in the same direction.

The media is happy to find white South Africans to rebut Trump and deny that there is an ongoing genocide against whites …because they have not personally perceived the threat of escalation. They are in denial of history. The country has reached only about stage 6-7 on the 10 stage Stanton scale that defines Genocide. What stops the process from continuing, even accelerating?

Perhaps only if fearless leaders like Trump speak out and shine light on the perpetrators and enablers, as he did to Ramaphosa this week in the WH, before the world.

https://www.genocidewatch.com/tenstages


10 posted on 05/23/2025 7:05:52 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Nailed it ;-)


11 posted on 05/23/2025 7:13:50 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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To: MtnClimber
There was also a small error in Trump calling the field with the white crosses "graves" - they aren't graves; the crosses represent White Farmers who have been killed by black violence.

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"A view of crosses planted at the White Cross Monument, each one marking a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder, is seen on a hillside in Ysterberg near Polokwane, South Africa, May 15, 2025."

12 posted on 05/23/2025 7:14:24 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: MtnClimber

Folks, the video wasn’t the real problem.

What really ticked off the enemedia was Trump using that fistful of enemedia cites of stories that the enemedia had run on the murders.

Trump nailed them with their own reportage.


13 posted on 05/23/2025 7:16:57 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Bon of Babble

Thanks for that photo and description.


14 posted on 05/23/2025 7:17:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Bon of Babble
The Killing Fields (2018) Katie Hopkins' documentary about South Africa
15 posted on 05/23/2025 7:19:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: silverleaf

“Whoever on his staff did that, should be seriously demoted”

Yeah that was sloppy. Trump is on a roll and taking on a lot of topics at once. There will be occasional unforced errors.


16 posted on 05/23/2025 7:27:22 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

This “error” was likely intentional.

President Trump does this kind of stuff all the time to drive the media coverage of the event and get his point across to the American people.

Rather than not publicize the facts to cover them up and go into “cover up mode” , they focus on some small point of contention and go full out media blitz in “discredit mode” which helps get the message out.

It’s part of the Trump earned media PR strategy.


17 posted on 05/23/2025 7:53:01 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: rdcbn1

As I’ve been saying, there is a method to Trump’s madness.


18 posted on 05/23/2025 7:57:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

Supposedly, there is a doc film, “Farmlands”, that shows the atrocities and how white farmers are hardening up all of their facilities to fight back to the death. Serious weaponry. Can’t get any of that stuff her in the US.

“Unsubscribe” had a guy on a few times who has a huuuuuge farm that way. Billionaire. He says that his farm has sufficient weapons, ammo, and staff to hold off the SA Army. Includes armored vehicles.

It may well be that when SAfrica finally collapses later this year the east (where the best farms are) will break away into a new country. Mebbe strike a deal with Israel to get access to serious fire power.


19 posted on 05/23/2025 8:40:09 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: MtnClimber

Taking a larger view.....what concerns me about South Africa is that the country is part of BRICS. A formidable opponent if unified.


20 posted on 05/23/2025 8:43:21 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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