Trump confronts Ramaphosa with footage of South African leaders calling for genocide

President Donald Trump on Wednesday confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with footage of South African politicians advocating for violence against the white population of the country after he attempted to deny claims of a genocide in his country.

The United States recently welcomed a small number of white South Africans as refugees as scrutiny over the nation's plans for land reform, including via the seizure of farmland without compensation, fuels further fears of discrimination.

After Ramaphosa attempted to defend his plans, Trump wheeled in a TV showing footage of a rally of Julius Malema, a member of the South African legislature and leader of a communist movement within the country. The footage included Malema leading a crowd in a rendition of "Kill the Boer," a song advocating for explicit racial violence.

Boers are a Dutch-descended group of white Africans.

Trump, for his part, lamented the situation, expressing incredulity that government leaders would call for such explicit murder. 

"And these are people that are officials, and they're saying that, kill the white farmer and take their land," he said. "And I have other friends in South Africa, people that left, one in particular that says it's, you can't go there. He said they want to take your land, your land, and they kill you. It's okay. And they say it's okay to do now. We're going to talk about it."