President Donald Trump ripped legacy and establishment media reporters on Monday, saying they refuse to cover the “genocide” taking place against farmers in South Africa.
Trump’s comments came during an executive order signing in the Roosevelt Room, shortly before he set out for the Middle East for the week as the administration welcomes refugees who faced threats of land theft and racial discrimination at the hands of the South African government, according to the State Department.
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place, and farmers are being killed,” Trump said. “They happen to be white, but whether they’re white or black makes no difference to me.”
“But white farmers are being brutally killed, and their land is being confiscated in South Africa, and the newspapers and the media — television media — doesn’t even talk about it,” he continued. “If it were the other way around, they’d talk about it. That would be the only story they’d talk about.”