Thousands of white South Africans are jockeying to get on the next flight to the United States as refugees. They say the backlash against their community is unfair.
White South Africans waiting to hear welcome statements from U.S. government officials shortly after arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport earlier this month.
President Trump publicly dressed down the president of South Africa based on a fringe conspiracy theory, providing a vivid distillation of his views on race.
During a meeting with South Africa’s president, President Trump played the video as evidence of racial persecution. A Times analysis found he misrepresented the contents of the video.
A social media video of a memorial procession in South Africa was played during a meeting between President Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
The president has railed against South Africa’s seizures of land from white farmers. But during his first term, he pushed to take land for his border wall using eminent domain.
President Trump showed a video and leafed through printouts that he falsely claimed showed widespread persecution of white South Africans. The country’s president tried to correct the record.
Morocco is linked to Europe on the strength of its auto sector and a trade pact. But its status as a connector country has become precarious in the trade war.
The instructions from the office of Secretary General António Guterres were reviewed by The New York Times and came after President Trump ordered a review of U.S. funding to the agency.