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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu May 22, 2025, 05:20 PM May 22

Trump Shared Racist, Flat-Earth Facebook Account With South African President [View all]

In a bizarre and troubling move, Trump recently shared a Facebook post with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that originated from a fringe South African account that posts racist imagery and flat Earth conspiracies.

The account, discovered by MeidasTouch's review of high-resolution photos from the event, is run by a man named Paul Hattingh of South Africa, who spreads white nationalist narratives, hateful imagery, and promotes theological interpretations of the Bible to justify a cosmology that rejects a spinning globe Earth.

During his meeting, Trump held up Hattingh's Facebook post from a collection of "articles" that Trump shared as part of his larger narrative attempting to legitimize the debunked claim that white South African farmers are being systematically murdered in a state-backed genocide—a conspiracy theory long discredited.

What makes Trump's sharing of the post especially disturbing is the origin: a Facebook account filled with offensive imagery and extremist rhetoric.

https://www.meidasplus.com/p/exclusive-trump-shared-racist-flat

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