Trump's Absurd Claim About White Genocide 'Grave Sites' Debunked -- By Guy Who Created Them
Source: MEDIAite
May 22nd, 2025, 2:30 pm
President Donald Trump’s absurdly false claim that a “White Genocide” propaganda video showed thousands of “grave sites” was debunked by the man who created the monument in the video, Rob Hoatson. A bilateral meeting in the Oval Office between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa quickly descended into chaos Wednesday as Trump brawled with reporters, forced Ramaphosa to watch a White Genocide propaganda video, and bitterly argued with him about it.
“These are burial sites,” Trump said as the video played, “over 1,000 of white farmers and– those cars aren’t driving, they’re stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed.” At one point, Trump lashed out at the media and repeated the claim that the video showed actual grave sites:
TRUMP: I don’t say that is good or bad, but 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 going, I guess on a Sunday morning, they told me to pay respect to their loved ones that were killed. Their heads chopped off. They died violently.
And I mean, we are here to talk about it and I didn’t know we’d get involved here, but I will say this, that if the news wasn’t fake, like NBC, which is fake news, totally one of the worst, ABC, NBC, CBS, horrible.
But if they weren’t fake news, like this jerk that we have here, we had real reporters, they’d be covering it. But the fake news in this country doesn’t talk about that. They don’t want to talk about it, but now they have to talk about it. But they won’t, this won’t even be a subject. They’ll have him talking about why did a country give a free thing — think of this — why did a country give an airplane to the United States Air Force? OK.
But the video — already discredited even by Fox News as a “political propaganda” film — depicts a line of vehicles on a road lined with white crosses that were installed by Hoatson. While he was glad for his creation to receive attention, he corrected Trump in an interview with the BBC:
Mr Hoatson, a 46-year-old farmer, said that while he had no issue with the video being used without his knowledge, Trump was known to “exaggerate” and he was happy to set the record straight about the striking image.
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