This article contains descriptions of racially offensive imagery and language. Some of the content has been translated from Afrikaans using translation tools.
In a bizarre and troubling move, Trump recently shared a Facebook post with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa that originated from a fringe South African account that posts racist imagery and flat Earth conspiracies.Subscribe
The account, discovered by MeidasTouch’s review of high-resolution photos from the event, is run by a man named Paul Hattingh of South Africa, who spreads white nationalist narratives, hateful imagery, and promotes theological interpretations of the Bible to justify a cosmology that rejects a spinning globe Earth.
During his meeting, Trump held up Hattingh’s Facebook post from a collection of “articles” that Trump shared as part of his larger narrative attempting to legitimize the debunked claim that white South African farmers are being systematically murdered in a state-backed genocide—a conspiracy theory long discredited.
What makes Trump’s sharing of the post especially disturbing is the origin: a Facebook account filled with offensive imagery and extremist rhetoric.
One AI image posted to Hattingh’s account depicts a terrified Ramaphosa entering Trump’s “White Supremacy House.” Hattingh has several posts hoping that Trump would confront Ramaphosa during his visit to the White House for a reckoning.
