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Rescuers were not called: how Trump is trying to fight an imaginary genocide in South Africa
The idea that post-apartheid South Africa is facing “white genocide” has not been abandoned by US President Donald Trump since his first term. Back in 2018, he wrote that he had instructed then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to “take a close look at the land expropriation and massacres of farmers in South Africa.”
Many on the American right agree with Trump. Fox News journalist Tucker Carlson has repeatedly touched on the topic of South Africa in his programs: he argued , for example, that the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa is “taking away land from his own citizens because their skin is the wrong color,” and called the government of the republic “genocidally racist” (meaning, of course, white genocide).
Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, repeats similar points: in his opinion, the country’s authorities are trying to “get rid of the white minority.” Even the chatbot Grok on the social network Mask X (formerly Twitter) talks about “white genocide” in South Africa in responses to random user queries.
With Trump's return to the White House in 2025, the topic of “genocide” in South Africa has expectedly resurfaced. In January, the Republic passed legislation to redistribute agricultural land, most of which has been owned by whites since apartheid. Less than a month later, Trump demanded that all financial aid to the country be stopped and promised to facilitate the resettlement of white South Africans in the United States.