Snopes -Trump presented 'evidence' of 'white genocide' to South African president. The facts say otherwise
In a meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, U.S. President Donald Trump presented video footage of white crosses along a highway, falsely claiming they marked burial sites of murdered white farmers in South Africa, and a photograph of body bags he falsely claimed held the remains of white farmers murdered in South Africa.
However, our investigation found the white crosses were not burial sites, but elements of a symbolic memorial erected for a 2020 protest against the murder of a white couple on their farm by robbers, and the murders of other white farmers in South Africa. The crosses were removed some time ago.
The photograph of body bags showed victims of violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, not South Africa. It was a screengrab from Reuters footage of the aftermath of a deadly jailbreak in February 2025 in which 100 women were raped and burned alive.
Both the video and the photograph frequently appear in social media posts amplifying the claim that a "white genocide" — the supposed deliberate and systematic mass killing of white farmers — is taking place in South Africa. Snopes first fact-checked this claim in 2018.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/05/23/white-genocide-trump-south-africa/