Trump Claimed a Social Media Görüntü Showed ‘Burial Sites’ of White Farmers. It Didn’t.

In a White House meeting on Wednesday, President Trump showed President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa a social media görüntü of a rural road lined with white crosses and hundreds of vehicles.

Mr. Trump told Mr. Ramaphosa that the footage showed “burial sites” of “over 1,000” white farmers in South Africa.

A New York Times analysis found that the footage instead showed a memorial procession on Sept. 5, 2020, near Newcastle, South Africa. The event, according to a local news website, was for a white farming couple in the area who the police said had been murdered in late August of that year.