Don Lemon Torches Trump’s South African ‘Genocide’ Claim: ‘Blatantly Racist Sh*t!’

Ex-CNN anchor and podcaster Don Lemon accused President Donald Trump of peddling “blatantly racist shit” in claiming that South African refugees who arrived in the U.S. on Monday were the victims of “genocide.”

The group of 59 white South Africans who landed at Dulles airport on Monday came as Trump announced the U.S. was offering “a rapid pathway to US citizenship” for Afrikaner farmers allegedly facing “genocide” under South Africa’s land reform laws. The country’s government has strongly denied any such persecution.

Trump said that the farmers happen to be “white” but that “makes no difference” to him, insisting that the group were being “brutally killed” and having their land “confiscated.”

During his show, Lemon went off on Trump’s claims:

This South African farmer bullshit, which is the most blatantly obvious racist shit ever It is blatantly obvious the way that we treat white South Africans who, by the way, are for the most part, and I am generalizing here, from some of wealthiest people or well-to-do people in the country to speak their language they own most of the land and somehow they’re being granted a fast track to become Americans while they are trying to cut down on immigration from other countries. You know, you get that? From where? From the brown people.

On March 7, Trump took Two Truth Social to announce he is offering white South African farmers quote “a rapid pathway to U.S. citizenship,” pointing out that South Africa’s new Land reform push signed into law last year, which lets the government take land without compensation if the property Is not being used.

Lemon continued to provide “context” and argue that the South African government was “not just taking land from the white South African farmers.” He said that “9% of the white population owned 87% of the fertile land” while “black South Africans make up more than 90% of the population” and “only hold about 4% of all privately owned land.”

He continued to argue that the South African government was trying to “fix an historical injustice” started by the apartheid system which was previously in place in the country.

“There needs to be equity. And now people are crying because the playing field is being leveled. And so therefore, it is now discrimination,” he added.

Trump’s South African-born advisor Elon Musk has pointed to violence against farmers as a “genocide of white people” and accused the government of passing “racist ownership laws.”

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