President Donald J. Trump has vowed the U.S. government “will act” if the South African government uses new legislation allowing “expropriation without compensation” to seize land from white farmers, as the late Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe did in the 2000s. “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY,” he wrote on Truth Social in the small hours of Monday morning.
“It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media doesn’t want to so much as mention. A massive Human Rights VIOLATION, at a minimum, is happening for all to see,” he continued. “The United States won’t stand for it, we will act. Also, I will be cutting off all future funding to South Africa until a full investigation of this situation has been completed!”
President Trump derailed previous efforts to dispossess white farmers in 2018 by publicly announcing an investigation into “farm seizures and expropriations and the large scale killing of farmers.”
The aforementioned farm seizures in neighboring Zimbabwe, which were accompanied by several state-sanctioned murders, ushered in a long period of economic calamity, with food production and the value of commercial farmland collapsing.