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What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

What Trump's fixation on 'white genocide' in South Africa tells us about the U.S.

Code Switch
34 min
Wednesday
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How the false notion of "white genocide" traveled from the political fringes to the Oval Office. The week on Code Switch, we're talking to a reporter who was in the room during a meeting when President Trump pushed this conspiracy theory on the president of South Africa. And we're digging into what Trump's fixation on white South Africans tell us about anxieties over white replacement here in the U.S.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy