rump invented a South Africa crisis
Drew Goins
... Monica confessed that if her readers weren’t already at least a little caught up on Trump’s claims about “dead White farmers” in South Africa, she was “not sure that any amount of column inches can fully explain them.”
Nevertheless, she tries, writing in her column that Trump basically invented a genocide of Afrikaners by Black South Africans, as well as the perfect “racist — excuse me, ‘racially tinged’ — code phrase” to go with it. Monica grants that the mainstream media has ignored this issue, but that is only because “it doesn’t exist.”
Funny, sure, until you unpack the twisted consequences of Trump’s accusation of media bias: As Monica writes, “Now, every time an article on the topic doesn’t appear, that in itself will become evidence for this genocide that is not actually happening.”
That was not the only cringeworthy thing to happen this week, or even within the meeting with Ramaphosa, Dana writes; Trump also chided him for not having a palatial private jet to gift the United States the way the Qataris recently did ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/05/23/trump-south-africa-dead-white-farmers-graduation-gaza/
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