TRUMP & SOUTH AFRICA: You’re Not Supposed to Say That—So He Did

LeJeune

May 22, 2025 10:14 am

It began like any other diplomatic handshake, the choreography all too familiar–the suits, the smiles, the stage…

It was a meeting “ostensibly dedicated to a discussion of trade and bilateral relations,” as RT put it.

But then there was something else.

There was a screen–and a shift.

And the cold, calculating relentlessness that followed revealed the full force of Trump’s narrative deployment.

Once again, for whom?

For us.

Trump welcomed South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the White House on Wednesday and then—without warning—projected a three-minute video highlighting the targeted killing of white South African farmers. The footage was visceral. Trump didn’t flinch. At one point in the video, he began narrating the onscreen content himself, naming the violence for what it was.

And in that brief shift, Trump injected two volatile narrative variables into the bloodstream of American perception: genocide, and by proximity, immigration. But not in the direction anyone may have expected.

He flipped the script in an instant, Trump did–especially on the notion of genocide, a word conservatives are not as quick to use in relation to other happenings on the world stage.

Scott McKay opened his column on The American Spectator with this:

…Trump generated a significant amount of attention by focusing on something the world has abjectly refused to focus on for the past 30 years or so.

Namely, that South Africa has devolved into a hellish failed state run by gangsters, and the primary victims of this devolution are the descendants of the people who established civilization there.

And that in reaction to this abysmal and outrageous development, the United States’ proper response is to offer asylum to the Afrikaners, the descendants of European settlers who formerly controlled that country but have fallen to just 5 to 7 percent of South Africa’s population and now face violence and discrimination in a place they’ve inhabited for four centuries.

I remember very clearly my teacher Mr Thompson talking to us about this in the ’90s–and what was coming–in my freshman World Geography class.

“Turn the lights down, and just put this on,” Trump said….

Take note how he pretends that this is all organic–and yet there are screens, videos, and articles immediately at the ready.

The man is a storyteller–a narrative technician–more than a politician.

Also take note of this:

For months, decades really, genocide has been a word imprisoned inside a tightly managed Overton box—constrained, curated, and controlled by corporate media consensus–including those of the “conservative” side. Its usage has been narrowed to one permissible domain. To invoke the word elsewhere, especially on behalf of white Christians in Africa or Christians in the Middle East, was to break a taboo enforced by the government-media apparatus that has its tentacles everywhere–always just out of reach of exposure.

Trump didn’t just break that taboo yesterday.

He weaponized it.

He forced the press to say the word.

If only we’ll join the story beyond the aisle-driven politics of it all.

And the beauty of the approach?

You don’t even have to be a Trump supporter to do it. Everything he does has latent potential to get us off the couch and away from the bread and circuses and actually engaging with these age-old evils that have simply assumed a 21st century face.

This is why those of us losing our minds over the clearly theatrical things Trump was saying two months ago about “taking” Gaza needed to just wait. Same thing with Greenland and China and so many other things on which folks decide is the time to get political on Facebook. We very often need to just wait to see why it is he puts out there such seemingly outlandish stuff.

Something is likely afoot with Taylor Swift, for instance, given his recent “random” post about her.

Do I wish the style could be different? Of course. But what else is going to wake us up from our bread and circuses besides the jarring and the absurd? We are calcified inside an entertainment culture and lifestyle. And even if some of us aren’t, we’re not just talking about you or me–an individual here and there–we’re talking about an entire populace who, as just one example, by and large, still don’t give one fig about who was really behind the JFK assassination, even though it was point blank said to us throughout the files just released?

We’re in a coma, a collective one.

Ramaphosa—the very leader whose government petitioned the International Court of Justice to charge Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with genocide—was now seated silently as Trump broadcast images of his own nation’s atrocities. The irony was sharpened by the geopolitical backdrop: South Africa is a BRICS member, aligned increasingly with Russia, and ambiguous in its positions. That same nation, now under scrutiny for farm murders and ethnopolitical targeting, had been cast as moral prosecutor in the Gaza war.

From ‘Ghost of Based Patrick Henry’:

I could imagine that the Zionists in Trump’s orbit would have been eager to humiliate President Ramaphosa, as it is Ramaphosa’s South African government that filed the original petition in the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) to bring war crimes charges against Bibi Netanyahu and the Israeli government for the IDF’s offensive operation in Gaza that took place immediately following the October 7th attack by Hamas in 2023.

Not to mention, as ‘Ghost’ says, that South Africa has also been a hub of regime activity and regime-change operations itself, making it an enigma in its current geopolitical alignment with President Ramaphosa.

It is the same thing we’ve seen for decades all over the planet, but are just now awakening to, some of us, including in Ukraine.

Here’s yet another thought from ‘Ghost,’ which relates back to the Trump-Gaza thing:

Was it a false flag? I don’t know yet. We may never know for sure. But it’s a good guess, without any time having passed just yet. My default is certainly not to indiscriminately believe what this electronic screen is telling me to think.

Including Charlie Kirk or Mark Levin or Ben Shapiro.

Back to Trump and South Africa, what better way to reveal selective outrage than by holding up a mirror? To Ramaphosa, perhaps even to us, especially when we juxtapose storylines in different areas of the world that challenge our predetermined loyalties.

I closed with this yesterday:

In the end, the Trump-Netanyahu “rift” might be nothing more than a lovers’ quarrel—loud enough to get the neighbors talking, but never serious enough to prompt a breakup. In a war of narratives, the winner isn’t the one with the cleanest alliance—but the one who controls the plotline the audience follows. And right now, that plotline just veered off script. If Trump is such a lightning rod, and he is, then maybe he’s also a mirror. And maybe what unsettles us most is seeing how split we’ve become–both inside the conservative base and inside ourselves—loyal to truths we haven’t fully examined.

Regardless of the motive of Trump’s heart–again, this is all about our response–his move her serves multiple functions at once.

First, it throws a wrench into the moral absolutism of the Left’s Gaza narrative, but also one into the absolutism of the older Republican guard that holds that Israel can do no wrong. Trump is complicating both binary claims here, and shifting it to a more universal humanitarian concern.

Second, it appeals to a neglected demographic—white South Africans, and by extension, working-class French Americans, Italian Americans, British Americans, German Americans, etc (the nuance of “White,” in other words), watching their own national identity erode through unchecked immigration and deep state, cabal-sponsored replacement.

What if the Afrikaner genocide is not merely inconvenient to the Mockingbird press, but threatening to the entire narrative scaffolding holding together the moral high ground of international Zionism? And what does it say about the realignment of global power blocs when it is Trump—not CNN, not the UN, not the ICJ—who publicly drags the crime into the light?

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU VOTED FOR HIM OR NOT.

Narrative warfare isn’t waged on facts all the time. It certainly isn’t waged on sides of the aisle. It is waged on framing.

But perhaps most subversive of all was this: Trump didn’t just narrate violence—he narrated displacement. He framed white South Africans not as colonizers or oppressors, but as refugees, a population in crisis whose plight mirrors that of so many forgotten peoples swept under the rug of modern geopolitics.

And that, if we’re paying attention, opens a new door.

A different door than he opened two months ago when his “crazy Gaza talk” was followed by Middle Eastern nations actually coming together to provide another plan.

Doors, stories, narratives, framing…

War.

Because if genocide is no longer a word reserved for the politically convenient—if it can also apply to such “goyim” as European-descended Christians—or as the Bible would call them, “Gentiles,”–then what happens when we take the next logical step? What happens when we dare to extend that same frame toward Christian civilization and the ancient enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the Woman spoken of in Genesis?

What if the pattern we see unfolding in South Africa is not isolated or political only, but historical lesson and cautionary tale all wrapped up into one?

A relic, but also a roadmap?

And what if immigration—massive, orchestrated, weaponized immigration—isn’t a side issue, but rather the delivery mechanism for the same form of soft genocide now playing out under different flags, with different faces?

We’ll discover that everything you see there in the Bible, everything Jesus warned about–especially in John 8 and The Apocalypse 2 and 3–is happening now.

Trump continues to divide, yes. He is dividing those who choose to see the patterns and the lessons and those who continue to indulge in the bread and circuses–injected into our culture by the very same cultural Marxists behind it all.

They subvert both politically and culturally.

Tomorrow, we continue the article, and we ask…

What if we’re next?

What if we’re now?

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May everyone named directly or referenced indirectly ask forgiveness and do penance for their sins against America and God. I fight this information war in the spirit of justice and love for the innocent, but I have been reminded of the need for mercy and prayers for our enemies. I am a sinner in need of redemption as well after all, for my sins are many. In the words of Jesus Christ himself, Lord forgive us all, for we know not what we do.