President Donald Trump has allowed a small group of White South African farmers, who have faced severe persecution in their home nation, to come to the United States as refugees, and it has set off a firestorm of racism accusations.
Chief among them was MSNBC reporter Yamiche Alcindor, who had an on-air meltdown after her network played the president’s answer as to the reason he was allowing the refugees in.
“Because they’re being killed, and we don’t want to see people be killed,” he said to the reporter who asked him the question at the press conference. “Now, South Africa leadership is coming to see me, I understand, sometime next week. And you know, we’re supposed to have a—I guess a G20 meeting there or something. But we’re having a G20 meeting. I don’t know how we can go unless that situation’s taken care of.”
“It’s a genocide that’s taking place that you people don’t want to write about, but it’s a terrible thing that’s taking place,” the president said. “And farmers are being killed. They happen to be white.”
