LEMON DROP | Trump Offers Citizenship to White South African Farmers?
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This one is really important. And I want you to sit back. I want you to get comfortable. I need you to pay attention because I'm about to walk you through a story that is so wild, so dripping with absurdity, among other things, that you're going to want to need some time to process it. Donald Trump has a new fixation. Now, forget about, you know, the crowd sizes, the minds bigger than yours. Forget about the southern border wall. Build that wall. Forget about that. Forget making Canada the 51st state. Absurd. Nothing compared to his new obsession. South African farmers. Yeah, I'm being serious. Donald Trump is obsessed for some reason, for some reason, with South African farmers. On March 7th, he took to his social media site to announce that he is offering these farmers a, quote, rapid pathway to U.S.
citizenship. Why? Because according to him, South Africa is, quote, being terrible to them, confiscating their land and subjecting them to, quote, much worse than that. Whatever that is supposed to mean. He is inviting these farmers. He's inviting their spouses, their kids, their cousins to come to America and to get a fast pass to the red, white and blue. Now, I've got some questions. I have some big questions. I think this is a window into who Donald Trump really is, who he has always been, and who he thinks America belongs to. So let's break it down. First things first. Who is he talking about when he says South African farmers? Exactly who's he talking about? Let's not be coy here. He's not talking about the black folks who have tilled their country soil for centuries, who were shoved into townships under apartheid, who watched their land get snatched by colonial settlers and never given back.
He's not talking about those folks. No, no, no, no, no. He's talking about white Afrikaner farmers, the descendants of Dutch and British colonizers who held on to massive estates since the 1600s. These are the folks he is shedding tears for, claiming that they are victims of some grand injustice. He's pointing to South Africa's new land reform push, the Expropriation Act, signed into law just last year, which lets the government take land without compensation if necessary. The property is not being used and there is no intention to either develop or make money from it. Now, Trump is framing this like it is a targeted assault, a racist plot to strip white farmers of their livelihoods. He's even hinting at violence, echoing that these far right conspiracies about white genocide that have been bouncing around social media, you know, Twitter for years.
But let's get the context straight because Trump certainly won't get the context straight. South Africa's history isn't a mystery.
What did Trump announce about offering a 'rapid pathway' to U.S. citizenship for white South African farmers?
It is a wound. Apartheid didn't just segregate people. It was a land grab on an epic scale. By the time it ended in 1994, white South Africans, about 9% of the population, owned 87% of the fertile land. Native black South Africans, the overwhelming majority, were left with scraps. The now democratically elected government has been trying to fix that ever since. But progress has been slow, too slow for a lot of people. This new law, it is messy. It is controversial. And yeah, it's got flaws. Everything does. Critics say it risks economic instability. Supporters say it is long overdue justice. Are there risks of corruption? Sure. Has it been politicized? Absolutely not. But Trump is acting like it is a state-sponsored hate crime, and that is a lie.
Critics and the people who have been reporting on this say that they see the fingerprints of one person all over this, and that is Elon Musk. Musk was born in Pretoria, raised in the twilight of apartheid. He's long been preoccupied with South African farmers and what he calls a, quote, slow white genocide, unquote, in South Africa.
South Africa, I mean, look at what happened with apartheid. It seems to me that you should be someone who is more understanding of that considering where you came from, considering your history. Yeah. There's a slow white genocide going on in South Africa.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–2:48
2
What did Trump announce about offering a 'rapid pathway' to U.S. citizenship for white South African farmers?
2:48–5:30
3
Who exactly are the 'South African farmers' Trump is referring to and why does that matter?
5:30–8:23
4
What is South Africa's Expropriation Act and how is Trump framing it?
8:23–10:31
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