In Trump’s America 🇺🇸

 When did Peter Baker become woke?

The Oval Office dressing down of South Africa's president became a stark demonstration of Trump’s belief that the world has aligned against white people, and that Black people and minorities have received preferential treatment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-ramaphosa-south-africa-visit.html

David Frum bemoans due process:

The original sin was failing to send Donald Trump to prison for the rest of his life for mounting a violent coup to overthrow the election of 2020.

Aside from the fact he still could have won the election, and then? Probably released from prison for four years, free to wander the world and do what he’s doing right now. As we know, there’s nothing to keep a convicted felon from being President.

So what does it mean that Elmo was in the Oval Office with the President of South Africa? And Trump made it clear his concerns about Afrikaaners are Elmo’s concerns? And government agencies are still pressuring nations (like South Africa) to contract with Starlink?

Watch the donut, not the hole.

My daughter had pink hair (briefly) in college (art school. I think it was a requirement.). Would that be enough to make her suspicious? And when did we start going after white people? Does this mean Niemoller was right?

REPORTER: The president played a video that he said showed more than 1,000 burial sites of white South Africans that he said was murdered. We know that's not true. Why did he show it?

LEAVITT: The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been… pic.twitter.com/4DHmv3YwIo

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2025

Yamiche Alcindor is going to lose her access to the White House.

The president showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans, and he said they were murdered," Alcindor told Leavitt at Thursday's press briefing. "We know that that was not true and that the video wasn't doing that."

"So I wonder, why did the president choose to show that? It's not true the video was showing a burial site," the correspondent continued. "It is unsubstantiated that that's the case."

"No, it's true that that video showed the crosses that represent what the president claimed!" Leavitt exclaimed. "The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin."

"What protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to show?" Alcindor pressed.

"What's unsubstantiated about the video?" Leavitt griped. "And that's a ridiculous line of questioning."

You can almost see the smoke coming out of the Leavitt bot.🤖 

Trump: These are burial sites, over 1000 of white farmers.. both sides of the road, you have crosses.

Ramaphosa: I would like to know where that is pic.twitter.com/Z5jokUdriC

— Acyn (@Acyn) May 21, 2025

Oddly, Trump didn’t know.

The Witkruis Monument, is a private memorial, not a burial site as Trump claims.

The organizers fly the apartheid flag and only recognize white farm victims while ignoring farm victims that aren’t white. https://t.co/3spUzuOy6M pic.twitter.com/wtBWVEHBeT

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) May 21, 2025

Pretty sure that’s what Yamiche Alcindor was referring to.

REPORTER: There is no credible evidence of a genocide in South Africa. What information was given by experts in the field to support this?

TAMMY BRUCE: As we all knew, the president has been very vocal about his concern about the violence pic.twitter.com/5D7AciHFhd

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2025

The violence in Trump’s imagination? Also, pretty clear this is not going entirely Trump’s way.

https://t.co/nzndnTU7gU pic.twitter.com/gSmNUUiMnR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 22, 2025

I know I feel better.