President Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during a meeting at the White House on Wednesday with baseless claims about mass murders of white South Africans, prompting the former freedom fighter to offer polite pushback.

The claims of a genocide against white Afrikaner farmers in the majority-Black nation prompted the Trump administration to offer expedited refugee status and U.S. citizenship to the group this year, a stark contrast to its treatment of most foreigners seeking to enter the country.

Trump on Wednesday also showed Ramaphosa a nearly four-minute video that Afrikaner advocates say backs up their claims, though many of the clips were of Julius Malema, a populist figure ousted from the ruling African National Congress (ANC) years ago.

"It's more than just a little movement — it’s a pretty big movement in South Africa," Trump said of Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters, who have long advocated for a redistribution of land after decades of apartheid unfairly benefited Afrikaners economically.

Trump highlighted violent language used by Malema during political rallies and suggested Ramaphosa........

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