Trump’s white 'genocide' claims explained
May 27, 2025•14 min
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Episode description
Donald Trump is beginning to make a habit of confronting world leaders while the cameras are rolling in the Oval Office.
His latest victim is South Africa’s president Cyril Ramaphosa who was ambushed with Trump’s claims that white farmers are being persecuted in his country.
Today, Nancy Jacobs, a professor of history at Brown University on why Trump is so keen to spread false assertions of genocide and why white South Africans are moving to the US as refugees.
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Nancy Jacobs, professor of history at Brown University
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