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CBS Sets Out to Debunk Trump, Ends Up Proving Him Right

The ’60 Minutes’ report fixates on a semantic issue while conceding the underlying reality of violence against white farmers in South Africa.

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In the latest airing of 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper delivered what may be one of the most spectacular media self-owns in recent years. The segment was constructed around a single objective: dismantling President Trump’s claim that more than 1,000 white South African farmers were buried along a rural road marked by white crosses. Trump had shown footage of those crosses during the May 2025 White House visit of Cyril Ramaphosa, arguing that the scale of killings targeting white farmers was so severe that it warranted international attention and, in his view, amounted to genocide.

For the segment, Cooper traveled to South Africa intent on puncturing that image. He returned viewers to the same stretch of road where the crosses once stood and noted that they were no longer there. He tracked down the farmer who had erected them and established that the crosses were temporary memorials rather than literal burial sites. The report leans heavily on this distinction, presenting it as a decisive correction that rendered Trump’s claim false.

Yet as the segment unfolds, that conclusion quickly collapses under the weight of Cooper’s own reporting. The same........

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