Karoline Leavitt Destroys Liberal Reporter Questioning White Farmer Genocide [WATCH]

Tensions escalated during a bilateral meeting between President Donald Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday, after Trump played a video montage highlighting attacks on white farmers in South Africa.

The video included footage of opposition party members calling for violence against “Boers” — a term referring to white South African farmers — and images of the White Cross Monument in Polokwane, where hundreds of crosses mark the deaths of slain white farmers.

The footage became the subject of intense scrutiny in the White House press briefing shortly afterward, when press secretary Karoline Leavitt sparred with a reporter who questioned the accuracy of the video shown by Trump.

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The reporter challenged whether the graves depicted were truly those of murdered white South Africans, prompting Leavitt to respond that the line of questioning was “ridiculous.”

“The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin,” Leavitt said.

“Those crosses are representing their lives and the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it. Are you disputing that?”

When the reporter pressed further, asking what verification protocols were in place to confirm the video’s content before it was presented to world leaders, Leavitt defended the White House’s decision to share the footage.

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She pointed to a widely circulated image and caption from The Associated Press, which depicts the White Cross Monument and describes it as marking the site of farm murder victims.

“What’s unsubstantiated about the video?” Leavitt asked.

“The Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument and the caption from The Associated Press is ‘each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder.’ So it is substantiated… You should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.”

During the meeting with Ramaphosa, President Trump used the video to push back on claims that violence against white farmers in South Africa has been overstated.

Pointing to the burial site in the video, Trump stated: “There is approximately a thousand of them. They are all white farmers, the family of white farmers… Those cars aren’t driving. They are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed.”

The video also featured clips of South African opposition figures encouraging violence against white farmers, including calls to “cut their throats” and shoot them.

Ramaphosa responded at the meeting by distancing his administration from the rhetoric shown in the video, saying the statements “are not government policy.”

President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa exchange on genocide.

Q: “What will it take for you to be convinced that there’s no white genocide in South Africa?”

Ramaphosa: “I can answer that for the president.”

Trump: “I’d rather have him answer.” pic.twitter.com/8v8hXFGmK0

— CSPAN (@cspan) May 21, 2025

Elon Musk, White House adviser and a South African native, weighed in on the matter.

In a May 16 post on X, Musk accused South Africa of systemic discrimination, stating that the country “explicitly racist against anyone who is not black.”

There are 140 laws on the books in South Africa that are explicitly racist against anyone who is not black.

This is a terrible disgrace to the legacy of the great Nelson Mandela.

End racism in South Africa now! https://t.co/qUJM9CXTqE

— Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) May 16, 2025

In a separate post, he referred to the country’s policies as “Apartheid with a new name.”

Anti-white, anti-Indian, anti-Chinese or anti any race laws are not ok!

That is just Apartheid with a new name. https://t.co/CrhCUdg1gc

— Kekius Maximus (@elonmusk) May 16, 2025

The exchange between Trump and Ramaphosa, as well as the contentious press briefing, brought renewed focus to the issue of farm attacks in South Africa and the country’s racial dynamics, which remain a subject of debate internationally.

As of Thursday evening, the South African government had not issued an official response to the White House’s public statements or Musk’s posts.

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