A tense exchange erupted during a White House briefing as Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended Donald Trump's controversial video shown to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. NBC's Yamiche Alcindor challenged the clip’s accuracy, saying it falsely portrayed a genocide of white farmers. The video featured dozens of crosses, allegedly representing slain farmers—though Alcindor noted they honored a single couple. Leavitt pushed back, claiming white South Africans are being killed and persecuted due to race. The moment underscores rising tensions around Trump’s rhetoric on race and global narratives.
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00:00It's not true that the video was showing a burial site, it is unsubstantiated, that's the case.
00:05No, it is true that that video showed the crosses that represent...
00:09...the president claimed.
00:11The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin.
00:23What protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders?
00:29Anish, what's unsubstantiated about the video?
00:31The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government.
00:37In fact, the Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument and the caption from the Associated Press is,
00:45Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder.
00:49You should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated and that's a ridiculous line of questioning.
00:54The Press, the President showed a video that he said showed more than a thousand burial sites of white South Africans that he said were murdered.
01:02We know that that was not true and that the video wasn't showing that.
01:04So I wonder, why did the President choose to show that...
01:06What's not true, Yamiche?
01:07...it's not true that the video was showing a burial site.
01:10It is unsubstantiated that that's the case.
01:12So it's...
01:13It is true that that video showed the crosses that represent...
01:16They didn't answer a burial site, which is what the President claimed.
01:18The video showed images of crosses in South Africa about white farmers who have been killed and politically persecuted because of the color of their skin.
01:30The President claimed that it was showing burial...
01:31And those crosses are representing their lives.
01:33Those crosses are representing their lives in the fact that they are now dead and their government did nothing about it.
01:39Are you disputing that there is no...
01:42I'm disputing the fact that the video showed what the President claimed it showed because it did not show that.
01:45But even more, what I'm asking you is who at the White House...
01:47No, it did show that.
01:48It showed white crosses representing people who have perished because of racial persecution.
01:52...the videos that the President shows and what protocols are in place when there's unsubstantiated information being put out for the world and world leaders to know.
02:00Yamiche, what's unsubstantiated about the video?
02:02The video shows crosses that represent the dead bodies of people who were racially persecuted by their government.
02:08In fact, the Associated Press, of all places, has a picture of that very monument.
02:14And the caption from the Associated Press is,
02:16Each cross marks a white farmer who has been killed in a farm murder.
02:20So it is substantiated, not just by that video and the physical evidence that everybody saw on display in the Oval Office,
02:26but also by another outlet in this from the Associated Press.
02:29So you should take it up with them if you believe the claim is unsubstantiated.
