What are journalists to do when the president lies on the world stage, subjecting this country to ridicule? Wednesday’s meeting in the White House with the president of South Africa was a travesty.
There is no “genocide” of white farmers in that country, as Trump has alleged and the film he dramatically showed was not what he claimed — thousands of crosses marking burial sites of victims.
They were not burial sites and there are no victims. It was a bald-faced lie.
As someone who devoted his half-century career to digging up and documenting true stories, Trump’s propaganda makes me want to scream. Have the standards for truth fallen so low in this country that our fellow citizens will keep falling for this kind of crap?
It’s patently obvious that Trump, a life-long racist, is still angry about the way that the global anti-apartheid movement displaced the white government in South Africa decades ago, so he is trying to flip the historical script now.
If the truth matters at all in these times, his blatantly racist ploy will fail. If the truth still matters.
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