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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

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Trump's image of dead 'white farmers' came from Reuters footage in Congo, not South Africa

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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President Donald Trump showed a screenshot of the video to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa as part of what he falsely presented as proof of mass killings of white South Africans.
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    It doesn’t matter as long as his supporters believe him, which they will. They don’t care if it’s true or not.

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      The people the truth matters to already know he and everybody around is a lying sacks of festering shit.

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      And neither does he

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      I thought you weren’t going to fact check?

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      They’re eating cats and dogs!

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    Maybe Trump thinks “South Africa” is everything south of the Sahara.

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      This hypothetical misunderstanding already assumes too much geographical knowledge on the part of Trump – namely “the Sahara exists”, “the Sahara is in Africa”, and “the Sahara is specifically in northern Africa”.

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      After watching the video of him and Ramaphosa, it seems clear to me there is a real chance the orange one thinks South Africa is simply the southernmost half of the African continent

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      Or that Africa is in the South hemisphere.

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    Bold of you to believe that Trump knows what the Sahara is.

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    Oh my God this changes everything

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