WASHINGTON (Reuters) — U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will skip a Group of 20 finance officials meeting in South Africa next week, sources familiar with his plans told Reuters, but will attend the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan, according to a Treasury spokesperson.
Bessent&#8217;s decision to miss the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting marks the second time this year he has opted against attending a G20 meeting in South Africa, which is serving as the group&#8217;s president this year.
A Treasury official confirmed that Michael Kaplan, acting undersecretary for international affairs, will represent the department at the July 17-18 meeting near Durban, South Africa instead of Bessent. The United States is due to head the G20 group, which it helped found in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, next year.
Bessent, a key figure in President Donald Trump&#8217;s trade negotiations, will represent the United States at the U.S. national day at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, a Treasury spokesperson said. The national day will be marked on July 19.
It was not immediately clear if he would engage in bilateral meetings during the visit.
The White House said Bessent would lead the U.S. delegation, which will also include Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau.
News of Bessent&#8217;s trip comes a day after Trump sent a letter to Japan raising tariffs on Japanese imports to 25%, starting August 1. Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he would continue negotiations with the U.S. to seek a mutually beneficial deal.
Bessent skipped South Africa&#8217;s first G20 finance meeting in February to attend Trump&#8217;s first cabinet meeting in Washington. Finance ministers from China, Japan, India, and Canada also skipped the meeting in Cape Town focused on tackling global poverty, as did the European Union&#8217;s top economic official.
Bessent&#8217;s February decision came amid rising tensions between Washington and Pretoria as Trump threatened to cut off funding for South Africa, accusing President Cyril Ramaphosa&#8217;s government of confiscating land from white South Africans and turning a blind eye to the targeted killings of white farmers. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio also skipped a February G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa.
In May, Trump declined to say whether he would attend a G20 leaders summit in South Africa in November, after blasting Ramaphosa at the White House over reports of white genocide and land seizures in Africa&#8217;s largest economy.
On Monday, Trump sent Ramaphosa a letter informing him that imports from South Africa would be subject to a 30% tariff starting next month, unless the country agrees to reduce its trade barriers to U.S. goods &#8211; one of more than a dozen countries to get similar letters.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Writing by David Lawder; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Christopher Cushing)

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There is a philosophy that has now become dominant on the Left and even parts of the center. It&#8217;s throughout the West.
The deeper roots of this philosophy bear a deadly fruit.
Let’s begin with a bizarre and hilarious spectacle. Great Britain’s King Charles III was visiting the Canadian Parliament and decided that it would be worthwhile to offer a land acknowledgment.
This is hilarious because King Charles is the King of Great Britain. The only reason the Canadian Parliament exists is because of the settlement of Canada by British citizens. That’s why he is there in the first place.
Charles doing a land acknowledgment and taking that seriously would amount to essentially disestablishing Canada, the United States, Australia, South Africa and a bunch of other countries, because all of those countries were originally created as functioning polities by the British Empire.
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This bizarre idea that Charles can arrive on Canadian territory and start apologizing to the indigenous people for the presence of white people in this particular area is absurd, especially coming from King Charles, who is the greatest beneficiary on planet Earth of the imperialism of the British Empire.
There are human universals, such as migration, settlement, annexation, and conflict, and they are not unique to white people, Westerners, or Europeans; it&#8217;s just that white people, Westerners and Europeans, have been much better at it than other parts of the population on planet Earth. They&#8217;re more successful, particularly in the 18th and 19th centuries, but that does not mean that there is some unique sin that attends to whiteness, being Western, or being European.
Charles said, “I would like to acknowledge that we are gathered on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people. This land acknowledgement is a recognition of shared history as a nation. While continuing to deepen my own understanding, it is my great hope that in each of your communities, and collectively as a country, a path is found toward truth and reconciliation, in both word and deed.”
Of course the land is unceded, because the nature of human conflict is that when people migrate from one part of the Earth to another part of the Earth, conflict tends to arise, and then someone wins and someone loses. And it is a very good thing that the British Empire won in Canada.
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Here’s the basic idea: The world is better off because of the British Empire. The world is better off because of American power and the spread of European ideals. That is obviously true. The spread of things like property rights, due process of law, capitalism, freedom of religion, all of which are not human universals — those are the legacy of the West.
There&#8217;s always an attempt to take human universals and then project them as West-specific problems. That is not true.
The problems of murder and raping and looting and slavery are human universals.
What is unique about the West is all the other stuff. Reversing that polarity and suggesting that the West is somehow uniquely sinful because it was better at war than others, or because Westerners were better at settlement than the Algonquin who lived on the land where Canada&#8217;s parliament now sits, and that is a human tragedy, is not, in fact, a human tragedy.
Bad things happen throughout human history. The bad things are tragedies. But overall, in the broad scope of history, it is an absolutely wonderful thing that Europeans ended up on the North American continent.
Anyone who doesn&#8217;t believe so should probably leave. If you don&#8217;t believe that, you probably should go back to your dingy apartment and cede it back to the natives from whom your ancestors took it.
All of this ties into a deeper and more deadly philosophy.
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, visited the White House and was asked about the “Kill the Boer” chant, which has become common at some rallies, targeting the Afrikaner farmers who originally settled in the area of South Africa as early as the 17th century, fought for hundreds of years, and were responsible at one point for tremendous racism against black people.
But the solution to that is not genocidal chants. Yet there’s an idea that as long as the people who are shouting the genocidal chants are not white, European and Western, it suddenly becomes okay.
Why? Because the rules don&#8217;t equally apply in this left-wing philosophy, where the sins of the West are unique and the West is unique in its evil.
What that means is that the West has to be destroyed. This has deadly consequences. And it doesn&#8217;t matter whether you call this stuff anti-white or anti-Semitic or anti-whatever. The problem with this generalized philosophy is that it is simply evil.
When you separate the world into victims and victimizers and you suggest that anyone who&#8217;s been uniquely successful is the victimizer and anyone who is not is a victim, what you get is victimizers with the moral impetus and the moral weight to kill people.
What you end up with is actual terrorism, actual violence, actual overthrow of the institutions that made the West great in the first place.

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Asked why his country would not arrest blacks who chant “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa answered that his country did not need to “be instructed by anyone” to take that step, asserting that the country’s constitution protected freedom of expression.
Last week, President Donald Trump confronted Ramaphosa at the White House about the threat to whites in his country.  When Ramaphosa claimed blacks in South Africa were also killed by criminals in the country, Trump responded, “The farmers are not black. And the people that are being killed in large numbers, and you saw all those grave sites, and those are people that loved ones are going &#8230; on a Sunday morning, they told me to pay their respects to their loved ones that were killed &#8230; their heads chopped off. They died violently.”
In late March, Julius Malema, the founder and leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters, a communist political party, led a rally at which the crowd chanted “Kill the Boer! Kill the farmer!” Malema has also led chants to “cut the throat of whiteness.”
“In 2023, a little under 300 white-owned farms were attacked across South Africa, with 49 people killed in those attacks, according to <a href="https://www.artikels.afriforum.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Farm-attacks-and-murders-in-South-Africa-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">figures from AfriForum,</a>” NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/south-africa-racist-white-farmers-trump-musk-genocide-ramaphosa-rcna190749" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a>.
In 2010, a South African court <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-14878102" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> that the song “Kill the Boer, Kill the Farmer,” which Malema was using, did constitute hate speech. But in 2022, Judge Edwin Molahlehi <a href="https://groundup.org.za/article/judge-rules-kill-boer---kill-farmer-not-hate-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed</a> the ruling, saying, “It does not constitute hate speech and deserves to be protected under the rubric of freedom of speech &#8211; it articulates the failure of the current government to address issues of economic empowerment and land division.”
On Saturday, Malema defiantly <a href="https://www.channelstv.com/2025/05/25/south-africas-malema-vows-to-keep-chanting-controversial-song/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “The struggle heroes composed this song. All I am doing is to defend the legacy of our struggle. Therefore I will never stop singing” the song. &#8220;That will be a betrayal to the struggle of our people.&#8221;
“When it comes to the issues of arresting anyone &#8230; it’s a sovereign issue,” Ramaphosa stated. “It’s not a matter where we need to be instructed by anyone that ‘Go and arrest this one.’ We are a very proud, sovereign country that has its own laws, that has its own processes, and we take into account what the constitutional court also decided when it said that that slogan, ‘Kill the Boer. Kill the farmer,’ is a liberation chant and slogan. And it’s not meant to be a message that elicits or calls upon anyone to go and be killed. That is what our court decided. So they will probably want to arrest people willy-nilly, [but] we follow the dictates of our constitution because we are a constitutional state and we are a country where freedom of expression is in the bedrock of our constitutional arrangement.&#8221;
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In January, Ramaphosa <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg9w4n6gp5o">signed</a> the <a href="https://www.gov.za/documents/acts/expropriation-act-13-2024-english-sepedi-24-jan-2025" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-hveid="CAIQAg">Expropriation Act 13 of 2024</a>, permitting the government to seize land for public purposes or in the public interest.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confronts-south-african-president-in-oval-office-over-white-farmer-genocide">Trump Confronts South African President In Oval Office Over White Farmer Genocide</a>

President Trump Meets With South African President Cyril Ramaphosa At The White House

South African President: Don’t ‘Instruct’ Us To Arrest Those Chanting Death Threats To Whites

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Ever since the death of Nelson Mandela, it&#8217;s fair to call Cyril Ramaphosa one of the few surviving &#8220;founding fathers&#8221; of post-apartheid South Africa. He helped write the country&#8217;s new constitution, which would supposedly usher in a new era of prosperity and equality. He also oversaw the transition to the new government. And as South Africa descended into lawlessness and squalor over the ensuing 30 years, Ramaphosa gradually accumulated more wealth and power, until he finally became the country&#8217;s president in 2018. He&#8217;s currently worth something like half a billion dollars, even as the vast majority of South Africa&#8217;s residents now live in extreme poverty.
What this means is that Ramaphosa is the personification of South Africa&#8217;s post-colonial experiment. When he drafted that new constitution, he presumably did not foresee that, by 2025, the country would have the single highest unemployment rate of any country in the world, at 40%. He certainly didn&#8217;t tell anyone that he eventually planned to sign new laws that would disenfranchise and rob white farmers, or that white people would be systematically slaughtered in their homes. But all of that has happened. And yet, for all this time, no one &#8212; and certainly no world leader &#8212; has held this deranged despot accountable for any of that. Instead, it&#8217;s been something of a tradition in Washington to pretend South Africa is somehow a &#8220;great ally&#8221; to the United States, and to treat Ramaphosa as royalty, as Joe Biden did a few years ago.
That tradition came to a very abrupt end yesterday in the Oval Office, when Donald Trump did something no other political figure has ever done. He told Ramaphosa, to his face in the most public forum imaginable, that he&#8217;s a fraud who&#8217;s overseeing a white genocide. And in the process, Trump took a blowtorch to a mythology that pretty much every politician, from both parties, has been desperate to uphold for several decades.
In order to understand the importance of *what* Donald Trump communicated here, you have to first see exactly how he communicated it. First, of course, Ramaphosa asked the United States for money, because he&#8217;s run his country into the ground and they can&#8217;t even feed themselves anymore. Then a reporter asked a patronizing question about &#8220;what it would take&#8221; for Trump to stop repeating supposedly false claims about white genocide in South Africa. In other words, the reporter is basically calling Trump a liar to his face, and asking him what it would take for him to stop lying. Here&#8217;s how it went:
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So after begging for cash, Ramaphosa essentially validates what the reporter is saying. He says Donald Trump needs to &#8220;listen&#8221; to the people of South Africa, in order to stop lying about the alleged genocide of white people. It&#8217;s probably the most obnoxious answer that he could&#8217;ve come up with, especially after dozens of white South Africans just fled the country in fear of their lives.
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But Trump was prepared for it. First of all, Trump asked one of the white golfers that Ramaphosa brought with him &#8212; a two-time U.S. Open winner named Retief Goosen &#8212; what the situation was like in South Africa. And the golfer responded that his father&#8217;s friends, who own farms, have been murdered, and the farms are constantly being torched. Watch:
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Retief Goosen: &quot;My dad was a property developer as well as a part-time farmer. And yeah, some of his buddy farmers got killed&#8230; it&#39;s a constant battle with — they&#39;re trying to burn the farms down to chase you away.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/93b4YZhpLQ">pic.twitter.com/93b4YZhpLQ</a>
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Again, this is one of the golfers that the president of South Africa brought to the Oval Office, as part of South Africa&#8217;s delegation, hoping he&#8217;d neutralize the supposedly &#8220;fake narrative&#8221; about white genocide. This is one of the people that the president of South Africa demanded, obnoxiously, that Trump &#8220;listen to.&#8221; It didn&#8217;t exactly go as planned &#8212; which probably tells you something about the level of &#8220;planning&#8221; that South Africa&#8217;s government is capable of.
And 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. In other words, Trump once again called Ramaphosa&#8217;s bluff. He &#8220;listened&#8221; to the calls for genocide coming from South Africans &#8212; and he made Ramaphosa, and the rest of the world, listen to it as well. And as you watch this, notice the expression on Ramaphosa&#8217;s face, as he genuinely cannot believe what is happening. Watch:
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If you&#8217;ve listened to this show, or been active on social media over the past year or so, then you&#8217;ve seen or heard most of these clips before. And you&#8217;ve heard stories like the ones that Trump just cited. That&#8217;s because in South Africa, black politicians have openly called for genocide for many years now. White farmers have been tortured in their homes for decades, in attacks that are clearly racially motivated. And instead of stopping the carnage, the government has just passed a law allowing the government to seize land from white people without compensating them. All of this has been known for a while now.
But in their coverage of this Oval Office meeting, the corporate press pretended to be surprised by this footage from South Africa. So before we go back to the Oval Office incident yesterday, let&#8217;s take a brief look at that coverage. Here&#8217;s ABC, for example. Watch as they deliberately give the impression that they had never seen anything like this footage before:
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&#8220;We do not know the source of the videos.&#8221; That&#8217;s pretty extraordinary. There are only two explanations for how that reporter could make a statement like that. Either she&#8217;s monumentally lazy, and she&#8217;s confessing that no one at ABC News is capable of verifying the authenticity of footage that&#8217;s been available on the Internet for years. Or, she&#8217;s deliberately lying to ABC&#8217;s viewers, and trying to get them to believe that the footage might be fake. Those are the options. If anyone at ABC News was actually interested in the truth about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa, they&#8217;d tell their audience that, yes, the footage is real, and that the genocide of white people is something they&#8217;re openly encouraging over there.
For his part, after Trump played the footage in the Oval Office, Cyril Ramaphosa offered this response. As you listen to this, see if you can spot the very familiar sleight of hand he uses. Watch:
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First of all, he&#8217;s right that some of the clips show politicians from minority parties in South Africa. That&#8217;s true. But it&#8217;s also not very reassuring, for two reasons. First of all, these minority parties are filling stadiums with tens of thousands of people, chanting about murdering white farmers. So we&#8217;re not talking about one fringe politician here. This is a very common sentiment in South Africa. And secondly, as Trump pointed out, the government of South Africa has just signed legislation that calls for white people to lose their homes and their farms, without any form of compensation whatsoever. That&#8217;s a pretty good indication that, indeed, the government is aiding and abetting the ongoing genocide.
Ramaphosa had no answer to that. Instead, he simply pointed out that, in South Africa, the majority of people who die are black. This is one of those lines that only works if you&#8217;re a race-obsessed, illiterate moron who doesn&#8217;t understand the concept of &#8220;per capita,&#8221; which of course describes most South African leaders. So maybe the talking point works there. But it doesn&#8217;t work when you&#8217;re dealing with intelligent people, because intelligent people recognize the significance of the fact that over 80% of the population of South Africa is black. So obviously, most of the people who are killed in South Africa are going to be black. No one is disputing that.
The relevant question is whether white people (particularly white farmers) are being targeted because of their skin color, and whether they&#8217;re dying at a rate that&#8217;s higher than black people, given that they only make up something like six percent of the population. And of course, no one in South Africa&#8217;s government wants to address those questions, because they know the truth: white farmers are being killed at dramatically higher rates than you&#8217;ll see in literal warzones, or places like Afghanistan. By some estimates, the murder rate for white farmers is something like 150 per 100,000 people. That&#8217;s why white people in South Africa are currently leaving everything behind &#8212; their farms, their homes, everything &#8212; in order to fly to the United States and stay in Holiday Inns off the interstate in Idaho. They&#8217;re not doing it for fun. They&#8217;re doing it because their lives are endangered in South Africa.
But even after Trump explained all of this in the Oval Office &#8212; even after Trump played the evidence of white genocide for the press, and for the president of South Africa &#8212; the corporate press is continuing to lie, universally, about what&#8217;s happening in South Africa. They&#8217;re simply denying that white people are being targeted. We&#8217;ll put a selection of the headlines on the screen now:
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I won&#8217;t read all of these, but every single one of them accuses Trump of &#8220;falsely&#8221; spreading claims of white genocide in South Africa. They say Trump &#8220;abused&#8221; the South African president with lies, even though he literally played ten minutes of video for him, and listened to first-hand testimony from the country. Pretty much every media outlet did the same thing. This is one compilation that Chaia Raichick assembled. Watch:
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This was shameless and coordinated to a pretty amazing degree, even by these people&#8217;s standards. But there was one outlet that told the truth, seemingly by accident. Here was a <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Grg3ImuXUAAVYNH?format=jpg&amp;name=small" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photo</a> that the AP posted, buried in an image gallery inside their article about how South Africa is supposedly safe for white people.
Here&#8217;s the caption: &#8220;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 South Africa.]&#8221;
That&#8217;s the reality of what&#8217;s happening. And occasionally it gets out. But you won&#8217;t find similar reporting at the New York Times. Here&#8217;s how they <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/ernie-els-retief-goosen-south-africa-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discussed</a> what the white golfers said in the Oval Office: &#8220;Two of South Africa’s most famous golfers were drawn into a tense Oval Office discussion about race in their country on Wednesday, after President Trump ambushed his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, with videos intended to support his false claim of mass killings of Afrikaners. .. Mr. Goosen &#8230; shared that his relatives on farms lived behind electric fences in fear of crime, like many other South Africans. &#8216;But the guys live a great life, despite what’s going on,&#8217; he said.&#8221;
Yes, that&#8217;s what the New York Times took from the golfer&#8217;s statement. They left out the fact that the farmer&#8217;s friends are dead, that the farms are being torched, and that his elderly 80-year-old mother was attacked in their home. And the reason they left those details out is that, ordinarily, most criminals don&#8217;t set fire to farms or beat old women for no reason whatsoever. But they will do those things if they&#8217;re motivated by racial resentment, which is clearly the case in South Africa.
Over at CNN, meanwhile, they tried to convince their 15 viewers that the song about killing white farmers, which is often repeated at political rallies in South Africa, really isn&#8217;t meant to be taken literally. Watch:
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They&#8217;re simply incapable of bringing themselves to say that, yes, it&#8217;s bad to call for the mass executions of white farmers. They can&#8217;t acknowledge that post-colonial South Africa is a failure, for the same reason they can&#8217;t acknowledge that Rhodesia was a functioning, thriving state &#8212; the &#8220;breadbasket of Africa,&#8221; they called it &#8212; while Zimbabwe (the new name for Rhodesia) is a hellhole that needs to import food in order to avert famine. One after another, these post-colonial African states are demonstrating that colonialism wasn&#8217;t so bad after all. In fact, it was a lot better than the alternative.
It&#8217;s obvious why they can&#8217;t admit any of this. Every single Left-wing agenda item &#8212; from the modern civil rights movement to DEI &#8212; is predicated on the idea that past &#8220;oppression,&#8221; as they define it, justifies hand-outs and preferential treatment today. But that logic falls apart when you realize that, any effort to supposedly balance things out and make up for the alleged sins of the past, only means the murder rate would be ten times higher than it was in Afghanistan at the height of the U.S. occupation, everyone would be poor, and elderly women would regularly be tortured and beaten to death in their own homes. That&#8217;s the reality. It&#8217;s gone unsaid for generations, and people in South Africa &#8212; of all races &#8212; have suffered because of it. So have people in this country.
It is a lie that, yesterday in the Oval Office, Donald Trump confronted and debunked in the most direct way that he possibly could. And in doing so, Trump didn&#8217;t just demolish one of the central mythologies of the Left &#8212; one that, until now, has sustained the vast majority of their depraved social experiments. Trump also signaled that, in this administration, doublespeak and innuendo are not going to be the default mode of communication, with foreign leaders or anyone else. Instead, we&#8217;ll be direct. We won&#8217;t cower from the truth, or sugarcoat it with euphemism.
Every single aspect of society would be improved if we all adopted that level of discourse. We need a lot more of this if we&#8217;re going to reverse the damage that South Africa&#8217;s leaders have done &#8212; and more importantly, if we&#8217;re going to prevent that ideology from spreading here. That&#8217;s been the main goal of true conservatives in this country for many years now. And yesterday in the Oval Office, for the first time since the 1960s, Donald Trump gave us reason to think we&#8217;re going to succeed in that effort.

Donald Trump/Cyril Ramaphosa

Trump Just Forced The South African President To Acknowledge The White Genocide

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Matt Walsh

Trump Administration

President Donald Trump defended Afrikaner farmers during an Oval Office meeting today with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, playing a video of alleged incitements to violence after Ramaphosa rejected claims of a white genocide.
The video included a clip of Julius Malema, a member of South Africa’s National Assembly, singing “Kill the Boer” at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.
While the video played, Ramaphosa looked away from the screen, visibly uncomfortable, while Trump looked straight on.
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President Trump directly accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of an Afrikaner genocide.
When Ramaphosa denied the claim, Trump played a video showing anti-Afrikaner speeches and footage of white farmers&#39; burial sites. <a href="https://t.co/IgDXz1vJKQ">pic.twitter.com/IgDXz1vJKQ</a>
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The video also included footage of what Trump claimed was the gravesite of 1,000 Afrikaner farmers.
Ramaphosa said he had never seen the site but “would like to know where that is.”
Trump also held up articles that he said showed proof of the genocide against Afrikaners.
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“I don’t know how it can get any worse,” Trump said.
Ramaphosa responded to Trump, raising concerns about the “Kill the Boer” chant, claiming that it was said by a minority party and was not representative of the government.
“When they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them,” Trump said. 
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President Trump arguing with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa about the genocide of White farmers.
&quot;The farmers are not black,” Trump said. <a href="https://t.co/3kt5vbAIUc">pic.twitter.com/3kt5vbAIUc</a>
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Ramaphosa responded, claiming that black people are also killed by criminals in the country.
“The farmers are not black,” Trump said. “The people that are being killed in large numbers, and you saw those grave sites and those are people that loved ones are going on a Sunday morning they told me to pay their respects to their loved ones that were killed. Their heads chopped off. They died violently.”
Ramaphosa, being diplomatic, asked to discuss the “criminality” issues in South Africa outside of the media and encouraged American partnership in addressing them.
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The meeting comes amid controversy over the Trump administration welcoming Afrikaner refugees to the United States, alleging they are the victims of a race-based genocide. 
Tensions between the two countries have increased following the passage of South Africa’s Expropriation Act, which allows the South African government to confiscate land without compensation.
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Trump issued an executive order in February saying the act ignored citizens’ rights and enabled the government to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation.” The directive cut aid or assistance to South Africa and declared that the United States would promote resettling Afrikaner refugees.
Ramaphosa denied that Afrikaner land is being taken away during the meeting. He pointed to his South African Agriculture Minister, John Steenhuisen, who is white, and claimed that the majority of white farmers want to stay. 
Steenhuisen said he joined Ramaphosa’s coalition government as an opposition party to keep the anti-white politicians out of power in South Africa.
“Why wouldn’t you arrest that man?” Trump asked, pointing out that Malema was inciting violence by calling for white people to be killed.
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The Trump administration accepted 59 farmers who arrived in the United States on a chartered flight earlier this month through an expedited program. Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-says-dem-senator-only-opposes-afrikaner-refugees-because-of-their-race">have denied</a> that Afrikaners are being persecuted for their race and have criticized the Trump administration for resettling the refugees in the United States.
Trump pushed back on those criticisms last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-critics-of-south-african-refugee-policy-its-a-terrible-thing-thats-taking-place?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Rips+Critics+Of+South+African+Refugee+Policy%3A+%E2%80%98It%E2%80%99s+A+Terrible+Thing+That%E2%80%99s+Taking+Place%E2%80%99">saying</a> the refugees “happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio doubled down on the Trump administration’s belief that Afrikaners are being persecuted during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
“These are people whose farms were burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin,” Rubio said in a heated exchange with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
Rubio added that the farmers qualify for refugee status because they “live in a country where farms are taken and land is taken on a racial basis.”

Trump Confronts South African President In Oval Office Over White Farmer Genocide

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Executive

Politics

Racism

President Donald Trump welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House on Wednesday, amid controversy over the Trump administration&#8217;s acceptance of white South African refugees.
&#8220;Hello, nice to see you,&#8221; Trump said before turning to take a picture with Ramaphosa upon welcoming him outside the Oval Office.
The Afrikaner farmers came to the United States, alleging they are the victims of a genocide in their country. The Trump administration accepted 49 farmers — who arrived in the United States on a U.S.-chartered flight earlier this month — through an expedited program. Democrats <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-says-dem-senator-only-opposes-afrikaner-refugees-because-of-their-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have denied</a> that Afrikaners are being persecuted for their race, and have criticized the Trump administration for resettling the refugees in the United States.
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NEW: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was just greeted by President Trump at the White House. The two leaders will have lunch and an Oval Office meeting. <a href="https://t.co/9yKRkKnbkn">pic.twitter.com/9yKRkKnbkn</a>
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Trump pushed back on those criticisms last week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-critics-of-south-african-refugee-policy-its-a-terrible-thing-thats-taking-place?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Rips+Critics+Of+South+African+Refugee+Policy%3A+%E2%80%98It%E2%80%99s+A+Terrible+Thing+That%E2%80%99s+Taking+Place%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> the refugees &#8220;happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me.”
&#8220;White farmers are being brutally killed and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspapers and the television media doesn’t even talk about it,&#8221; the president added.
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Trump and Ramaphosa will have a bilateral lunch followed by an Oval Office meeting, where Elon Musk is expected to be present, <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/musk-trump-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Axios reported</a>. Musk, a South African native, has been a vocal critic of its current government.
Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, are also expected to attend the meeting.
Tensions between the two countries have increased following the passage of South Africa’s Expropriation Act, which allows the South African government to confiscate land without compensation.
Trump issued an executive order in February saying the act ignored citizens’ rights and enabled the government to “seize ethnic minority Afrikaners&#8217; agricultural property without compensation.” The executive order cut aid or assistance to South Africa and declared that the United States will promote resettling Afrikaner refugees.
The Trump administration also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-bans-south-africas-ambassador-to-u-s-from-entering-country?author=Ryan+Saavedra&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Rubio+Bans+South+Africa%E2%80%99s+Ambassador+To+U.S.+From+Entering+Country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">banned</a> Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States, after he claimed Trump was “mobilizing” white supremacy around the world.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Rasool of being a “race-baiting politician who hates America and @POTUS.”
“We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rubio-bans-south-africas-ambassador-to-u-s-from-entering-country?author=Ryan+Saavedra&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Rubio+Bans+South+Africa%E2%80%99s+Ambassador+To+U.S.+From+Entering+Country" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio posted</a>.
In March, Musk <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1903556327290626165" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shared a video</a> of Julius Malema, a member of South Africa&#8217;s National Assembly, singing “Kill the Boer” at a political rally, a reference to Afrikaners.
“Very few people know that there is a major political party in South Africa that is actively promoting white genocide,” Musk posted. “A whole arena chanting about killing white people.”
Musk added that his company, Starlink, is unable to get a license to operate in South Africa because Musk is not black.
Rubio also denounced the “Kill the Boer” song, claiming it &#8220;incites violence.”
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“South Africa’s leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaner and other disfavored minorities,” <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1904288660016759029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">he posted</a> in March. “The United States is proud to offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our nation amid this continued horrible threat of violence.”
Rubio doubled down on the Trump administration’s belief that Afrikaners are being persecuted during a Senate hearing on Wednesday.
“These are people whose farms were burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin,” Rubio said in a heated exchange with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA).
Rubio added that the farmers qualify for refugee status because they “live in a country where farms are taken and land is taken on a racial basis.”

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Trump Welcomes South African President To White House Amid Controversy Over Afrikaner Refugees

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Marco Rubio

White House

Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed Democrat Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) over his reaction to America’s acceptance of white South African refugees, with the Trump administration official charging that the Democrat doesn’t like the refugees because they’re white.
The heated exchange came during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting, which came just a week after less than 60 Afrikaner refugees <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crljn5046epo">arrived</a> in Virginia, prompting outrage from many on the Left.
“Can you have a different standard based upon the color of somebody&#8217;s skin? Would that be acceptable?” Kaine asked Rubio during the committee meeting. “I&#8217;m not the one arguing that, apparently you are because you don&#8217;t like the fact that they’re white and that’s why they’re coming,” Rubio shot back in response.
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&#8220;You just don&#8217;t like that they&#8217;re white&#8221;
Secretary Of State Rubio smokes Tim Kaine for melting down over the legal admittance for 59 White refugees
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“You&#8217;re the one that&#8217;s talking about the color of their skin, not me. These are people whose farms were burned down and they were killed because of the color of their skin,” the Secretary of State went on to add.
He also explained during the hearing that the Afrikaners qualify for refugee status because they “live in a country where farms are taken and land is taken on a racial basis.”
Kaine <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rubio-clashes-kaine-south-african-refugees-you-dont-like-theyre-white">claimed</a> that the notion that Afrikaners are being persecuted because of their race is “completely specious,” but South African political leaders have openly called for the killing of white South Africans at large political rallies.
Julius Malema, a member of the National Assembly of South Africa, chanted “shoot to kill” and “kill the boer” at a political rally in reference to the white Afrikaner population. At another event, he said that his political movement is “cutting the throat of whiteness.”
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South Africa&#8217;s Julius Malema, the party leader of the EFF calls for killing white people:
&#8220;Shoot to kiII. KiII the Boer, the farmer&#8221;<a href="https://t.co/vFjqJ9l8GR">pic.twitter.com/vFjqJ9l8GR</a> <a href="https://t.co/sxzS0d0Dn4">https://t.co/sxzS0d0Dn4</a>
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) <a href="https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1903420572391907834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 22, 2025</a></blockquote>
The Episcopal Church’s refugee resettlement wing, which has resettled migrants in the United States for decades, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/episcopal-church-refuses-to-resettle-white-south-african-refugees-citing-racial-justice-commitment?author=Spencer+Lindquist&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=6&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Episcopal+Church+Refuses+To+Resettle+White+South+African+Refugees%2C+Citing+%E2%80%98Racial+Justice%E2%80%99+Commitment">announced</a> that it would refuse to help settle the Afrikaners for explicitly racial reasons. Episcopal Migration Ministries cited its “steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation” as it announced its refusal of support for the Afrikaners.
The organization even said it would terminate its existing resettlement contract with the federal government over the controversy. “We have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government,” Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe said.

Rubio Says Dem Senator Only Opposes Afrikaner Refugees Because Of Their Race

Immigration

Refugees

Tim Kaine

South Africa Doubles Down On Its Anti-White Agenda And The Left Celebrates

Leftism

The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; joined a number of other media personalities in claiming that President Donald Trump was only allowing 59 Afrikaners to claim <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/spare-me-scott-jennings-scorches-dems-for-sudden-about-face-on-refugees" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refugee status</a> because they are white — while also claiming that because the Afrikaners are white, they are not &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221;
Sunny Hostin addressed the issue during Thursday&#8217;s broadcast, complaining that the Trump administration had limited refugee status for Afghans and Haitians, to whom she referred as &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; Hostin also took a swing at Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, saying she found it to be an &#8220;insult&#8221; that the former South Dakota Governor holds that position.
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Staunchly racist Sunny Hostin denouncing President Trump granting refugee status to 59 white South Africans. She demands the status for Haitians, who are &#8220;truly refugees.&#8221; 
JOY BEHAR: They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here. 
SUNNY HOSTIN: She said it, I… <a href="https://t.co/3iBDrey1VO">pic.twitter.com/3iBDrey1VO</a>
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&#8220;For me, you know, I think one thing — having Kristi Noem be in charge of Homeland Security, in and of itself, is an insult, it&#8217;s just an insult,&#8221; Hostin began. &#8220;And I think something that we&#8217;re not talking about — enough about — is what Donald Trump did on Monday: the Trump administration allowed in 59 white South African refugees into this country, claiming that they were fleeing racial discrimination and land appropriation.&#8221;
Hostin went on to claim that South African President Cyril Ramaphosa had disputed reports of land appropriation and racially motivated discrimination — despite the fact that Ramaphosa himself signed a bill into law in late January that allows the government to expropriate private property for reasons up to and including &#8220;to promote inclusivity and access to natural resources.&#8221;
The Afrikaners, according to Hostin, did not qualify as refugees. Instead, she referenced refugees from Afghanistan and falsely claimed that the program in place to grant protected status to Afghans &#8220;who helped us&#8221; during the war had been ended. In fact, the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/afghans-deportation-protections-ending/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> Afghan Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program is entirely separate from the more permanent Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) program exclusively for Afghans who were allies during the war.
&#8220;And so the fact that Afghan refugees — people who helped us during the Afghanistan war — who helped us and protected our troops, that program has been dismissed. The fact that Haitians that are truly refugees, they have been denied protected status.&#8221;
&#8220;They&#8217;re not white people. That&#8217;s why they don&#8217;t want them here,&#8221; cohost Joy Behar suggested.
&#8220;She said it, I didn&#8217;t,&#8221; Hostin agreed.

WHOOPI GOLDBERG, SARA HAINES, JOY BEHAR, SUNNY HOSTIN, ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN

‘The View’ Hosts Are Pretty Sure That White South Africans Aren’t ‘Truly Refugees’

'The View' Hosts Are Pretty Sure That White South Africans Aren't 'Truly Refugees'

Joy Behar

Media

Sunny Hostin

The View

President Donald Trump travels to the Middle East, where he inks massive arms and investment deals, Sean Combs’ sex trafficking trial brings shocking testimony, and the Left is outraged as Trump welcomes Afrikaner refugees.
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<h2>Trump Secures Massive Saudi Investment</h2>
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Topline: President Trump secures a $600 billion investment in the U.S. from Saudi Arabia.
President Trump and an entourage of his top officials were in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, where the president secured a $600 billion investment in the United States and the largest arms deal in history. Trump arrived in Qatar on Wednesday morning and plans to visit the United Arab Emirates while negotiating economic deals and signaling a new approach to American foreign policy in the Middle East.
“Far too many American presidents have been afflicted with the notion that it&#8217;s our job to look into the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice for their sins,” Trump said. “It is God&#8217;s job to sit in judgment — my job to defend America and to promote the fundamental interests of stability, prosperity, and peace.&#8221;
Trump also celebrated a recent ceasefire with the Houthis, who agreed to suspend attacks on American shipping in the Red Sea after months of intense aerial bombardment by U.S. military forces. The president announced the cessation of sanctions on Syria, to give the new government, which ousted the Russian- and Iranian-backed Bashar al-Assad last December, “a chance at greatness.&#8221; Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, formerly known by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, is a former Al-Qaeda fighter who fought against American forces in Iraq. He has been Syria&#8217;s president since January and has attempted to rebrand himself as a moderate figure focused more on Syrian interests than jihad.
“In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there is a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace. That’s what we want to see,” Trump said.
However, Trump’s rhetoric was not entirely dovish – he issued a stern warning to Iran, a longtime regional adversary of the United States that has come perilously close to developing nuclear weapons. “Iran CAN have a much brighter future — but we will NEVER allow them to threaten America and our allies with terrorism or a nuclear attack. The choice is theirs to make.”
<h2>Did Diddy Do It?</h2>
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Topline: Eight months after his arrest, the federal trial of music mogul Sean &#8220;Diddy&#8221; Combs kicked off this week in Manhattan. The charges Combs faces — including sex trafficking, coercion, and racketeering — have sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry.
The trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs began on Monday. Prosecutors painted a dark picture, alleging that Combs used his fame, wealth, and multimedia empire to orchestrate a decades-long scheme involving sex trafficking and violence. They claim he lured women with promises of romance or career opportunities, only to force them into “freak offs” — drug-fueled sexual performances involving male prostitutes, some recorded to blackmail victims into silence. They also claim it was particularly during these “freak offs” where women, including his former girlfriend, R&amp;B singer Cassie Ventura, were abused and manipulated.
Combs has been charged with five felony counts: one count of racketeering conspiracy, two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and two counts of transportation for prostitution. If convicted, he could face life in prison, with a minimum of 15 years for the sex trafficking charges alone.
On Tuesday, Ventura took the stand and said Combs “too frequently… mashed in [her] head, dragged [her] along the floor, kicked [her], stomped on [her] head.&#8221; She also said he characterized these drug and alcohol-fueled “freak-offs” as part of her “job” and that they increased in frequency over the course of their relationship. She said that in the final years she was with Combs, these sex sessions became “all-consuming” and she spent most of her time engaging in the freak-offs or recovering from them while enduring abuse from Combs.
The jury also heard from Daniel Phillip, a former male escort. He gave graphic testimony about being paid to have sex with Ventura at the Gramercy Park Hotel in 2012 while Combs watched from the corner, masturbating and directing the encounters. He also recounted a disturbing incident where Combs allegedly forced him to urinate into Ventura’s mouth. Phillip also said he witnessed Combs’ physical abuse when he threw a liquor bottle at Ventura, dragged her into a bedroom, and slapped her as she screamed, “I’m sorry!” Phillip said he was “terrified” to intervene, citing Combs’ power and nearby bodyguards.
Combs’ defense admitted their client is a “complicated man” with flaws, including a history of drug use and domestic violence, but stressed that domestic abuse is not a federal crime and insisted this isn’t a racketeering or trafficking case. Teny Geragos, one of Combs’ attorneys who is the daughter of celebrity lawyer Mark Geragos, told jurors, “This is about Sean Combs’ private sex life,” emphasizing that the women involved, including Ventura, were “strong, capable, and in love with him,” making consensual choices.
<h2>Afrikaner Refugees Arrive In The United States</h2>
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Topline: The first group of white Afrikaners who were granted refugee status by the Trump administration arrived in the United States this week, <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/12/trump-afrikaners-refugees-immigration-00342029?utm_source=chatgpt.com">sparking outrage</a> on the Left.
Afrikaners are a South African ethnic group. Fifty-nine Afrikaner men, women, and children arrived in America this week, many of them farmers. They were vetted and granted refugee status very quickly, within a matter of months – the refugee vetting process ordinarily takes years. President Trump, who has been outspokenly opposed to the treatment of white South Africans by their government, signed an <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/addressing-egregious-actions-of-the-republic-of-south-africa/">executive order</a> in February to end aid to South Africa over its discriminatory racial policies, specifically pertaining to white farmers. The order notes that South Africa has taken “aggressive positions” toward the U.S. and her allies, including Israel, and also notes the recently enacted Expropriation Act, which the order said enables the South African government “to seize” Afrikaners&#8217; agricultural property without compensation.”
The State Department said Afrikaners face unjust racial discrimination in South Africa, and added that no one should be subject to “violent attacks because of their ethnicity.” One refugee said that she was attacked on her farm four different times. She said that Afrikaners are being blamed and targeted for the past apartheid in South Africa. Hundreds of people have been killed on farms in just the last four years or so. Not all of those people were white, but many were.
“What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said. “This is persecution based on a protected characteristic, in this case, race. This is race-based persecution. The refugee program is not intended as a solution for global poverty.”
The Left has argued that Trump is favoring these refugees because they’re white – they’ve cited the president’s moves to halt most of the refugee programs established under Joe Biden from nations like Afghanistan, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. Trump argues that those programs did not vet refugees properly, especially from those nations that are considered high-risk.

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings made it clear on Monday that he was not impressed with the Democrats who were suddenly opposed to the United States granting refugee status to South Africans after years of supporting the open border policies implemented by former President Joe Biden.
Jennings unloaded on them during a panel discussion on CNN, pointing out the fact that they had supported policies that ultimately let some of the worst criminals into the country, but suddenly had a problem with a few dozen white South Africans who have faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-rips-critics-of-south-african-refugee-policy-its-a-terrible-thing-thats-taking-place" target="_blank" rel="noopener">racially-motivated threats</a> and violence in their country.
&#8220;The same people who had no problem with letting in 20 million illegal immigrants, gang members included, are suddenly outraged about a small group of white South African refugees. Spare me,&#8221; Jennings captioned his video.
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&#8220;I do think — it&#8217;s not alleged discrimination that these people are facing in South Africa. I mean, the law there absolutely allows their property to be confiscated,&#8221; Jennings said. &#8220;They are subject to racial discrimination, some have been subject to violence, from some reports that I have read.&#8221;
&#8220;I mean, we&#8217;re talking about 50-something people, and the people who seem to be angriest about this today had no problem with 20 million coming here, some of the worst people in the world coming here, including gang members and so on and so forth, so I don&#8217;t have a lot of sympathy for outrage today after what happened to this country over the last several years over 50-something people who are clearly being discriminated against in South Africa,&#8221; he added.
Later on in the segment, Jennings argued with Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) who attempted to separate his views on illegal immigration from his support for former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
&#8220;The previous administration had priorities about who to let in, including all kinds of folks who I would argue shouldn&#8217;t be here,&#8221; Jennings said, noting that the open borders had effectively prioritized unvetted criminal aliens. &#8220;This administration, I guess, is going to set priorities about who and who not to let in —&#8221;
&#8220;Let&#8217;s just be honest about what those priorities are,&#8221; Moulton interrupted, suggesting that the skin color of the refugees was what was driving President Donald Trump&#8217;s policies. &#8220;I&#8217;m a Democrat here, I did not defend the Biden administration on immigration —&#8221;
&#8220;But you voted for him,&#8221; Jennings pointed out.
&#8220;That doesn&#8217;t mean that I defend him on immigration —&#8221; Moulton protested.
&#8220;And you voted for a continuation of it in 2024, did you not?&#8221; Jennings continued.
&#8220;I — I did not vote for his policies on immigration,&#8221; Moulton tried again, attempting to argue that he could support the man without taking responsibility for the policies that man put forth.
&#8220;But you voted — you voted to extend the immigration policies of the last administration,&#8221; Jennings said as several others on the panel attempted to jump to Moulton&#8217;s rescue.
&#8220;No, I did not vote for that,&#8221; Moulton repeated.
&#8220;The point is, you&#8217;re in a party that opened the borders, and I&#8217;m in a party that closed the borders, and I think the American people prefer our way,&#8221; Jennings concluded.

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