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President Donald Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House on Wednesday with a video allegedly showing grave treatment of white farmers.
Trump has claimed that White Afrikaner South African farmers are being slaughtered and forced off their land. The Afrikaners are descendants of mostly Dutch settlers who first arrived in South Africa in 1652.
A portion of the footage aired at the White House showed white crosses lined up alongside both sides of a road.
"Now this is very bad. These are burial sites right here. Burial sites -- over a thousand -- of White farmers. And those cars are lined up to pay love on a Sunday morning. Each one of those white things you see is a cross. And there is approximately a thousand of them," Trump said. "They're all White farmers. The family of White farmers. And those cars aren't, driving, they are stopped there to pay respects to their family member who was killed. And it's a terrible sight. I've never seen anything like it. On both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people are all killed."
President Donald Trump meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House, on Wednesday, May 21, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci)
"Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? I'd like to know where that is. Because this I've never seen," Ramaphosa then asked Trump.
"I mean, it’s in South Africa, that’s where," Trump responded.
"We need to find out," Ramaphosa said.
This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
Fox News' Paul Tilsley contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
