Trump’s Absurd Claim About White Genocide ‘Grave Sites’ Debunked — By Guy Who Created Them

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.

“It’s not a burial site, but it was a memorial. It was not a permanent memorial that was erected. It was a temporary memorial,” he said.
The crosses were set up to mark the deaths of Glen and Vida Rafferty, 63 and 60, who were Mr Hoatson’s neighbours and were killed on their farm in August 2020.

Two men were convicted of their murder in 2022.

The memorial consisted of more than 2,500 white crosses that stretched along both sides of a road near the couple’s farm. It has since been taken down.

“But the big issue here is not really whether it’s a burial site or whether it’s a memorial,” Mr Hoatson told the BBC and went on to talk about the murders of white farmers calling them “unacceptable” and “unnecessary.”

Hoatson nonetheless claimed to the BBC that Trump “placed the facts… at the foot of Ramaphosa” and was displeased with the South African president’s response.

Trump and Elon Musk have been pushing the absurd claim that White South African “Afrikaners” are victims of “genocide” as a way to justify accepting them as refugees while turning away other groups. But those claims, which underpin the monument in Trump’s video, have been widely debunked.

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