May 22, 2025 • 9 mins
Hours after an historical press conference - and in full view of a defiant press and a very embarrassed South African president, President Trump shows the visiting dignitary evidence of white genocide in South Africa. ABC World News Tonight then declared multiple times (with a segment with Mary Bruce) that Trump had no evidence and quote:"There s no white genocide in South Africa," and describing the expose as an "ambush" by Trump, despite tevidence from over a dozen reputable news agencies, including Daily MailUK, and The New York Post, among others, who have reported on white genocide events for years.
Most recently DHS have began allowing refugees from South Africa to come to the United States to escape violence from groups like the EFF, and state-sanctioned rebel group in South Africa.
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(00:14):
Welcome back to America TODAY. Jim Watkins here on this big
beautiful day, just moments awayfrom Memorial Weekend to begin.
And I know a lot of Americans are going to be very, very happy
as they head out the door, primarily because gas prices are
at their lowest since what, 2020or 2012 or something ridiculous.
So, and a lot of us are are actually 51 million that are
(00:38):
according to the AAA, That's right, that 51 million people on
the road, which you know, it's about right.
I mean, you think about it, a lot of people are now driving
farther. They got their nice vehicles,
their electric vehicles. Let's hope they've got those
charging stations up. All right, so we've got a busy
show for you. Jim Watkins here.
I'm the host of America Today where we take a a rather candid
(01:00):
and frank look at the news of the day.
And I am particularly upset because of the way the news
media has treated this story of the white Afrikaners who have
arrived in the United States to escape horrible conditions in
South Africa, which for some reason the mainstream media
wants to ignore, which I can only attribute to being, well,
(01:21):
there's a couple of theories outthere. 1 is that South Africa is
an interesting experiment because when Nelson Mandela and
the African National Congress took over many, many years ago,
things like 30 years ago, what they instituted was essentially
redistribution of wealth. And this is an experiment that
has gone awry because the the educated class for the people
(01:44):
that could run things like, oh, I don't know, energy grids,
major oil supply routes, transportation, those people
were sort of removed and they essentially tried DEI.
They would put in for the same reasons that we did it in our
country. They started taking out people
who had been there for 1520 years just by the fact that they
(02:07):
were white in order to make it amore fair and equitous
environment. And they put in less skilled,
less qualified Africans. And the end result is that for
the past 30 years, the quality of life in South Africa has has
been slowly diminishing. And so the South African
president was here at the White House yesterday.
(02:29):
You probably heard some of the interchange, and I want to get
to that. In fact, let's do it now.
Yesterday during the conference in which the president was
talking to the South African president, they time they opened
it up for question and Trump wasreally hammering the guy
Ramaphosa, I think is his name, about the fact that there are
white people who are being systematically brutalized and
(02:52):
having their lands taken away from them and they're running
scared. And there have been at least 100
deaths, 100 deaths. That's significant and the major
mainstream media doesn't want toacknowledge it because if they
did, they would have to acknowledge that the policies
that the ANC has been embracing both these 35 or so years has
(03:13):
become a massive failure, which means that DEI is a massive
failure. And the, and on a minute, I'm
going to play for you a couple of clips from ABC News.
And their position is that thereis no genocide going on.
There is no mass murder going onand everything is just a OK.
And, and, and so I say, well, why doesn't ABC News just issue
(03:34):
a press release declaring that in their belief there is no
white genocide going on in SouthAfrica?
Why not? Why don't want to just come
forth? Disney, the one of the world's
largest media companies in the world, and their subsidiary ABC
World News Tonight, has openly declared that white genocide
does not occur in South Africa. And proof of the Western media's
(03:58):
negligence of reporting this story honestly and factually is
that when Trump opened up the floor to the reporters after
talking about white genocide, here's what happened.
Mr. President, the Pentagon announced it would be accepting
A Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One.
What are you talking about? You know, you to get out of
(04:21):
here, what does this have to do with the Qatar jet?
They're giving the United StatesAir Force a jet, OK.
And it's a great thing we're talking about a lot of other
things. It's NBC trying to get off the
subject of what you just saw. You are a real, you know, you're
a terrible reporter #1 you, you don't have what it takes to be a
reported. You're not smart enough.
But for you to go into a subjectabout a a jet that was given to
(04:45):
the United States Air Force, which is a very nice thing.
They also gave 5.1 trillion dollars worth of investment in
addition to the jet. Go back.
You ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian
Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be
investigated. They are so terrible the way you
(05:06):
run that network and you're a disgrace.
No more questions from you. Go ahead, go ahead, talk about
that. His name is Peter Something.
He's a terrible reporter. So that was the essence of that.
And then they went on and they continue to discuss, they lower
the light. They showed a video of of
(05:26):
African. In fact, we have some of that
video. The here's the audio of video
showing a stadium of 100,000 people who are chanting kill the
white people, kill the white people.
Take a listen. Now
(05:58):
Trump played that tape to the African president, and he was he
was numb. He did not want to know what to
say. His only response was, yeah,
well, we, we allow free speech in our country like you do.
And there are certain people whoare angry because of what
happened during apartheid, whichwas a way of saying that he's
ignoring the problem. Now, having having been
presented all of this to you, here is the interpretation given
(06:21):
to us by ABC. Now, first notice the the intro
and how many times they use the word ambush.
Take a listen. Their side clearly on the
African South African president and against Trump.
The meantime, we turn to the dramatic scene in the Oval
Office today. The tense confrontation.
President Trump ambushing the president of South Africa.
President Trump at one point calling for the lights to be
(06:43):
dimmed and playing a video and then showing a stack of papers
that he said were articles proving a white genocide.
The president of South Africa denying the unsubstantiated
claims, at one point saying to President Trump, I'm sorry, I
don't have a plane to give you all.
Right. So that's a dig on the plane
again. Now back to the plane, the same
thing that Peter, what's his name over at NBC was doing in
the Oval Office and then giving some substance to the fact that
(07:05):
the South African president is denying it.
Therefore, it must be true that there is no such thing as white
genocide in South Africa. And then, of course, David Muir
hands it over to Mary Bruce, who99% of the time will always do a
negative hit piece on Trump. And she's been doing this for
years, by the way, going all theway back to the Clinton Trump
(07:25):
race, 2016. So this is this is her favorite.
This is her wheelhouse, if you will.
And she also uses the term ambush.
Take a listen. Tonight, an extraordinary scene
in the Oval Office. President Trump ambushing the
president of South Africa with false claims the nation is
engaged in genocide against white farmers.
The president insists white South African farmers are being
(07:47):
persecuted and murdered on a mass scale.
Unproven claims that have been amplified by Elon Musk, a
native. Unproven.
So there's the first time she issaying specifically that white
genocide is not occurring in South Africa.
South Africa. Had a tremendous number of
people, especially since they'veseen this.
Generally, they're white farmersand they're fleeing South
(08:09):
Africa. Reporters asking Trump what it
will take to convince him there is no genocide.
What should? Take from you for you to be
convinced that there's no white genocide in South.
Africa so just making a point here.
Why is that? The journalist is right and
Trump is wrong, even though Trump has the evidence?
You hear the way that the Bruce is can consistently reinforcing
(08:30):
the idea that there's no white genocide continuing on.
But Trump with the cameras rolling.
Turn the lights down. Dimming the lights to present
what he claims is evidence. What he claims not true based on
Mary Bruce. Showing clips of extremists
calling for violence, then leafing through articles he says
prove it's happening. Yes.
(08:50):
By the way, I was looking at thearticles as he was pulling them
out. They were the Daily Mirror, UK,
New York Post, Washington Post. They were credible news
agencies. And and there's Mary Bruce
saying that it's it's not true. Death, death, horrible death.
White S Africans are fleeing because of the violence and
(09:12):
racist laws. There is a crime problem in
South Africa but there is no evidence it is racially
motivated or amounts to genocide.
So there you go, you marry Bruce.
She is declaring there is no evidence there is no white
genocide, according to us here at ABC News.
White people make up only 7% of the country but own the vast
majority of its farmland. That's actually not true.
(09:34):
The government owns the vast majority of the farmland.
Again, David, he insisted. There is no genocide.
Mary Bruce and the team over there at ABC News declaring as a
matter of. Fact.
There is no genocide. I find it appalling that we have
a Western media that wants it toturn its blind eye to the
suffering of a minority group. And why?
(09:54):
Because they're white.
Welcome back to America TODAY. Jim Watkins here on this big
beautiful day, just moments awayfrom Memorial Weekend to begin.
And I know a lot of Americans are going to be very, very happy
as they head out the door, primarily because gas prices are
at their lowest since what, 2020or 2012 or something ridiculous.
So, and a lot of us are are actually 51 million that are
(00:38):
according to the AAA, That's right, that 51 million people on
the road, which you know, it's about right.
I mean, you think about it, a lot of people are now driving
farther. They got their nice vehicles,
their electric vehicles. Let's hope they've got those
charging stations up. All right, so we've got a busy
show for you. Jim Watkins here.
I'm the host of America Today where we take a a rather candid
(01:00):
and frank look at the news of the day.
And I am particularly upset because of the way the news
media has treated this story of the white Afrikaners who have
arrived in the United States to escape horrible conditions in
South Africa, which for some reason the mainstream media
wants to ignore, which I can only attribute to being, well,
(01:21):
there's a couple of theories outthere. 1 is that South Africa is
an interesting experiment because when Nelson Mandela and
the African National Congress took over many, many years ago,
things like 30 years ago, what they instituted was essentially
redistribution of wealth. And this is an experiment that
has gone awry because the the educated class for the people
(01:44):
that could run things like, oh, I don't know, energy grids,
major oil supply routes, transportation, those people
were sort of removed and they essentially tried DEI.
They would put in for the same reasons that we did it in our
country. They started taking out people
who had been there for 1520 years just by the fact that they
(02:07):
were white in order to make it amore fair and equitous
environment. And they put in less skilled,
less qualified Africans. And the end result is that for
the past 30 years, the quality of life in South Africa has has
been slowly diminishing. And so the South African
president was here at the White House yesterday.
(02:29):
You probably heard some of the interchange, and I want to get
to that. In fact, let's do it now.
Yesterday during the conference in which the president was
talking to the South African president, they time they opened
it up for question and Trump wasreally hammering the guy
Ramaphosa, I think is his name, about the fact that there are
white people who are being systematically brutalized and
(02:52):
having their lands taken away from them and they're running
scared. And there have been at least 100
deaths, 100 deaths. That's significant and the major
mainstream media doesn't want toacknowledge it because if they
did, they would have to acknowledge that the policies
that the ANC has been embracing both these 35 or so years has
(03:13):
become a massive failure, which means that DEI is a massive
failure. And the, and on a minute, I'm
going to play for you a couple of clips from ABC News.
And their position is that thereis no genocide going on.
There is no mass murder going onand everything is just a OK.
And, and, and so I say, well, why doesn't ABC News just issue
(03:34):
a press release declaring that in their belief there is no
white genocide going on in SouthAfrica?
Why not? Why don't want to just come
forth? Disney, the one of the world's
largest media companies in the world, and their subsidiary ABC
World News Tonight, has openly declared that white genocide
does not occur in South Africa. And proof of the Western media's
(03:58):
negligence of reporting this story honestly and factually is
that when Trump opened up the floor to the reporters after
talking about white genocide, here's what happened.
Mr. President, the Pentagon announced it would be accepting
A Qatari jet to be used as Air Force One.
What are you talking about? You know, you to get out of
(04:21):
here, what does this have to do with the Qatar jet?
They're giving the United StatesAir Force a jet, OK.
And it's a great thing we're talking about a lot of other
things. It's NBC trying to get off the
subject of what you just saw. You are a real, you know, you're
a terrible reporter #1 you, you don't have what it takes to be a
reported. You're not smart enough.
But for you to go into a subjectabout a a jet that was given to
(04:45):
the United States Air Force, which is a very nice thing.
They also gave 5.1 trillion dollars worth of investment in
addition to the jet. Go back.
You ought to go back to your studio at NBC because Brian
Roberts and the people that run that place, they ought to be
investigated. They are so terrible the way you
(05:06):
run that network and you're a disgrace.
No more questions from you. Go ahead, go ahead, talk about
that. His name is Peter Something.
He's a terrible reporter. So that was the essence of that.
And then they went on and they continue to discuss, they lower
the light. They showed a video of of
(05:26):
African. In fact, we have some of that
video. The here's the audio of video
showing a stadium of 100,000 people who are chanting kill the
white people, kill the white people.
Take a listen. Now
(05:58):
Trump played that tape to the African president, and he was he
was numb. He did not want to know what to
say. His only response was, yeah,
well, we, we allow free speech in our country like you do.
And there are certain people whoare angry because of what
happened during apartheid, whichwas a way of saying that he's
ignoring the problem. Now, having having been
presented all of this to you, here is the interpretation given
(06:21):
to us by ABC. Now, first notice the the intro
and how many times they use the word ambush.
Take a listen. Their side clearly on the
African South African president and against Trump.
The meantime, we turn to the dramatic scene in the Oval
Office today. The tense confrontation.
President Trump ambushing the president of South Africa.
President Trump at one point calling for the lights to be
(06:43):
dimmed and playing a video and then showing a stack of papers
that he said were articles proving a white genocide.
The president of South Africa denying the unsubstantiated
claims, at one point saying to President Trump, I'm sorry, I
don't have a plane to give you all.
Right. So that's a dig on the plane
again. Now back to the plane, the same
thing that Peter, what's his name over at NBC was doing in
the Oval Office and then giving some substance to the fact that
(07:05):
the South African president is denying it.
Therefore, it must be true that there is no such thing as white
genocide in South Africa. And then, of course, David Muir
hands it over to Mary Bruce, who99% of the time will always do a
negative hit piece on Trump. And she's been doing this for
years, by the way, going all theway back to the Clinton Trump
(07:25):
race, 2016. So this is this is her favorite.
This is her wheelhouse, if you will.
And she also uses the term ambush.
Take a listen. Tonight, an extraordinary scene
in the Oval Office. President Trump ambushing the
president of South Africa with false claims the nation is
engaged in genocide against white farmers.
The president insists white South African farmers are being
(07:47):
persecuted and murdered on a mass scale.
Unproven claims that have been amplified by Elon Musk, a
native. Unproven.
So there's the first time she issaying specifically that white
genocide is not occurring in South Africa.
South Africa. Had a tremendous number of
people, especially since they'veseen this.
Generally, they're white farmersand they're fleeing South
(08:09):
Africa. Reporters asking Trump what it
will take to convince him there is no genocide.
What should? Take from you for you to be
convinced that there's no white genocide in South.
Africa so just making a point here.
Why is that? The journalist is right and
Trump is wrong, even though Trump has the evidence?
You hear the way that the Bruce is can consistently reinforcing
(08:30):
the idea that there's no white genocide continuing on.
But Trump with the cameras rolling.
Turn the lights down. Dimming the lights to present
what he claims is evidence. What he claims not true based on
Mary Bruce. Showing clips of extremists
calling for violence, then leafing through articles he says
prove it's happening. Yes.
(08:50):
By the way, I was looking at thearticles as he was pulling them
out. They were the Daily Mirror, UK,
New York Post, Washington Post. They were credible news
agencies. And and there's Mary Bruce
saying that it's it's not true. Death, death, horrible death.
White S Africans are fleeing because of the violence and
(09:12):
racist laws. There is a crime problem in
South Africa but there is no evidence it is racially
motivated or amounts to genocide.
So there you go, you marry Bruce.
She is declaring there is no evidence there is no white
genocide, according to us here at ABC News.
White people make up only 7% of the country but own the vast
majority of its farmland. That's actually not true.
(09:34):
The government owns the vast majority of the farmland.
Again, David, he insisted. There is no genocide.
Mary Bruce and the team over there at ABC News declaring as a
matter of. Fact.
There is no genocide. I find it appalling that we have
a Western media that wants it toturn its blind eye to the
suffering of a minority group. And why?
(09:54):
Because they're white.
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