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Nevilledog

(54,380 posts)
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:12 PM Friday

Trump's Lie about Dead "White Farmers" Just Got Even More Grotesque

https://newrepublic.com/article/195699/trump-ramaphosa-lie-dead-white-farmers

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Because President Trump deeply values accuracy and integrity in public conduct, he will be mortified to learn that a photo he brandished during his recent Oval Office meeting with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa perpetrated a massive deception. The photo was supposed to display dead white South African farmers—a Trump obsession—but instead, it showed body bags from the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which is producing humanitarian horrors.

This abomination came as Trump ambushed Ramaphosa by displaying numerous printouts of web pages to illustrate a “genocide” against whites underway in his country. But Reuters now reports that one of the printouts displayed imagery taken from a Reuters video shot in the DRC of humanitarian workers moving dead victims from the war with Rwanda-backed rebels.

Most obviously, this is another sign of Trump’s inability to produce evidence of his new pet conspiracy theory about huge masses of “white farmers” being killed in racial pogroms. But there’s another ugly irony here that shouldn’t pass unnoticed: The Trump administration has suspended foreign aid to DRC and the resettlement of refugees from that nation, thus abandoning countless victims of the very same real-life humanitarian catastrophe that he’s cherry-picking imagery from to portray an atrocity against whites that isn’t actually happening.

Plainly, a hapless Trump aide was tasked with finding web postings about murdered South African white farmers for Trump to wave in Ramaphosa’s face as part of some sort of humiliation ritual—probably dreamed up by Stephen Miller—designed to thrill white nationalists everywhere. As it happens, the video he showed Ramaphosa of crosses designed to depict a killing field full of white corpses also turned out to be a wild distortion.

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surfered

(6,979 posts)
1. Our President is an idiot and once he gets some damn fool idea in his head, he's to insecure to correct his thinking.
Fri May 23, 2025, 02:21 PM
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He thinks he’s a genius because of his big brain and his smart relatives.

DENVERPOPS

(12,341 posts)
17. What you are describing
Fri May 23, 2025, 05:13 PM
Friday

is called Delusional Thinking..........And with Trump, it's one after another after another, with his pathological lying backing it up

Tesha

(21,016 posts)
2. If you have money,
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:03 PM
Friday

you will have access.

If you have access you can ask the best president ever, in the whole world, to use his megaphone to fix your problem...

Even if it really is faked, and foolish, he won't admit it afterwards, he will doubledown and keep pushing your propaganda.

Mr.Bee

(733 posts)
4. Propaganda precedent only believes propaganda
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:36 PM
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He still thinks 'MS13' wasn't photoshopped!
We can sell him anything!

PJMcK

(23,737 posts)
5. Lies, lies and more lies
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:40 PM
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Then more lies.

And even more lies.

Then lies about the lies.

Everything Trump says is a lie.

Period.

Anyone who believes him...

I'll let you finish that sentence.

erronis

(19,879 posts)
6. Do any of these facts matter to Fux, OANN, CNN, etc.?
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:40 PM
Friday

The different perspectives won't be presented, and the serfs are so brainwashed they won't believe.

malaise

(284,502 posts)
7. It's one thing to try and pull off this bullshit to Americans
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:43 PM
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Last edited Fri May 23, 2025, 04:40 PM - Edit history (1)

It’s way worse when it’s the head of a sovereign country.
Eff this racist vulgarian monster

xuplate

(101 posts)
9. Iraq 2.0
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:53 PM
Friday

This sounds eerily similar to the propaganda set up before W invaded Iraq. That may sound crazy but Trump is crazy.

Ilsa

(62,807 posts)
10. Naked moronic, bigoted, and antagonistic white nationalism.
Fri May 23, 2025, 03:57 PM
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Trump's name will eventually be used in place of "vile, stinkin' shit."

Paladin

(30,530 posts)
11. "...designed to thrill white nationalists everywhere."
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:17 PM
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And people claim that trump has nothing in the way of political expertise!

SayItLoud

(1,760 posts)
12. Lie on front page, correction on page 7.
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:27 PM
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It's always the same, it's his (MUSHROOMdon's strategy).

Never NEVER refer to him by his name always MUSHROOMdon it will eventually get to him and the women he loves to surround himself with will be whispering...

Botany

(74,252 posts)
13. Congo, Rwanda, or South Africa all the same
Fri May 23, 2025, 04:34 PM
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Dead white Farmers in S. Africa or dead Citizens of the Congo or Rwanda.
All the same.

Krasnov is an idiot.

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