Not only have conspiracy theories come flooding into our lives from the fringes, but they have now made their way into the U.S. Capitol and, thanks to Donald Trump & Co., the White House. It’s bad enough when members of Congress and the president of the United States’ family and closest allies spread this mess – as we saw during the Capitol rights with Antifa conspiracy theories – but to see conspiracy theories being hawked by the president of the United States directly from the White House is beyond the pale.

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It cannot be denied that Donald Trump has never met a conspiracy theory he didn’t like – as long as it serves his agenda, that is – because he has embraced all sorts of them for decades: the Clintons murder people and rape babies; Barack Obama was born in Africa; Ted Cruz’s father was somehow involved in killing JFK; migrants in Ohio eat pets; and, of course, the grandaddy of them all, the election was rigged.

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Worse, he seems to take perverted pleasure in peddling them, and sometimes even gets to engage in two of his favorite activities at once … like the time he promoted a despicable conspiracy theory while ambushing a foreign leader in the White House.

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As South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat beside Donald in the Oval Office – as a guest of not Donald, but the United States of America – to specifically discuss resetting trade relations, the U.S. president told his aide “Natalie” to “turn the lights down and just put this on.” He then proceeded to provide commentary for the video, which showed white crosses lining a roadside. Donald announced to his audience that they were looking at a mass grave for the white South African farmers who had been murdered in a “genocide,” awkwardly repeating “dead white farmers” over and over again.

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“Now, this is very bad,” Donald lamented. “These are the… these are burial sites right here. Burial sites. Each one of those white things you see is a cross, and there’s approximately a thousand of them. They are all white farmers. And it’s a terrible sight. I’ve never seen anything like it. Both sides of the road, you have crosses. Those people were all killed.”

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It will not come as a galloping shock to you that the words coming out of his mouth were categorically false. In truth, the crosses were part of a memorial procession that took place on September 5, 2020 for a white farming couple who had been murdered the month before. The crosses were removed after the event.

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For his part, President Ramaphosa, looking utterly mystified, said, “Have they told you where that is, Mr. President? I’d like to know where that is. Because this I’ve never seen.” To which Donald defiantly replied, “I mean, it’s in South Africa, that’s where!” Good grief. Then, to ensure he was as offensive to our visitors as possible, Donald then showed them video clips of black men he claimed were “South African government officials” saying things like “Kill the Boer,” a reference to Afrikaners (i.e., descendants of Dutch and other Northern European settlers who ruled South Africa during apartheid).

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< Encyclopedia Britannica describes apartheid as a “policy that governed relations between South Africa’s white minority and nonwhite majority for much of the latter half of the 20th century, sanctioning racial segregation and political/economic discrimination against non-whites.” Apartheid caused massive inequality on every level, extremely high poverty and unemployment rates for non-whites, and brutal racial segregation in communities, education, and public services – all of which persist to this day. >

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The South African delegation didn’t let this one go. Their agriculture minister, who is white, had to explain to the U.S. president that the men in the video were actually opponents of the current government. One of the men, Julius Malema, is a revolutionary leftist politician who leads the Economic Freedom Fighters. The African National Congress party, which President Ramaphosa is part of, expelled Malema from its party in 2012.

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As the meeting/ambush was ending, President Ramaphosa wryly said to the president of the United States, “I’m sorry I don’t have a plane to give you,” referencing the Boeing 747-8 luxury jetliner the Qatari government had just gifted Donald (ironically, the Qataris were spared a lecture on morality, in case you were wondering). To which Donald replied, “I wish you did.” Good grief.

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Did we ever figure out who put all this nonsense about South Africa in Donald’s head? But of course we did – because our president sat right in the Oval Office and told our South African visitors he showed them the videos because it was “what Elon wanted.”

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We guess Elon – who was born into a wealthy white family in South Africa during apartheid – also got what he wanted when, in May 2025, President Trump stopped the admission of all refugees into the United States – including the heroes who risked their lives for us in Afghanistan and entire families who will likely die in Sudan and Congo – but exempted wealthy white South Africans, Afrikaners no less.

As justification, President Trump said this group faces racial discrimination because of South Africa’s Expropriation Act, a land redistribution law passed to correct the enormous imbalance in property ownership that still exists from over four decades of apartheid (white people make up about 7 percent of the South African population but own roughly three-quarters of its farms and agricultural assets). However, no land seizures have been carried out under that law.

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His justification also included the fact that Afrikaners are “being killed” in a “genocide.” However, the truth is that deaths classified as farm murders account for less than 1 percent of the over 27,000 murders across South Africa every year (and not all those victims are white).

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In any event, Christopher Landau, our deputy secretary of state, welcomed the Afrikaners warmly: “You are really welcome here and we respect what you have had to deal with these last few years … when you have quality seeds, you can put them in foreign soil and they will blossom. They will bloom. We are excited to welcome you here to our country where we think you will bloom.” One could be forgiven for thinking the quality seeds will blossom crack is frighteningly reminiscent of language from the highly racist eugenics movement, which championed selective breeding to improve the human species: “Only healthy seed must be sown!”

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All this said, you live by the conspiracy theory, you die by the conspiracy theory – a lesson President Trump and his posse are learning the hard way.

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Very quickly, conspiracy theories can spin out of your control (which happened in September 2025 when the Internet was convinced President Trump was dead, and even him posting “NEVER FELT BETTER IN MY LIFE!” became part of the plot) or can backfire spectacularly when they smash into reality (which happened with the tale of Jeffrey Epstein and the legion of wealthy men on his “client list” who supposedly murdered him in prison to protect their sex secrets).

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After Donald loudly peddled sordid Epstein theories for years, many of his loyal followers anxiously waiting for justice to be done in the second Trump/Vance administration. They were finally going to get the dirty details of what these perverts (probably all Democrats and Deep State, of course) had done… and send them straight up the river! Luckily, they had their MAGA top-tier superheroes in place between Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and his deputy Dan Bongino – all MAGA mega disciples who had promised vengeance. But, when the sands in the hourglass ran out, the three mighty crusaders admitted that, after an “exhaustive review,” they found “no incriminating ‘client list;’ no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties;” no “evidence that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals;” or any credible evidence that he was murdered by the Deep State – rather, Jeffrey Epstein did, in fact, commit suicide after all.

 

Uh oh.

 

Needless to say, many Trump loyalists went ballistic… as they will again when President Trump and his underlings don’t do anything about the Deep State vigilantes who initiated the January 6th assault on the Capitol – it was an “inside job,” you see – or the overlords who rigged the 2020 election, or the masterminds in the Obama administration who perpetuated what National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard called a “treasonous conspiracy in 2016” to damage Donald Trump.

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We pray that the Trump/Vance administration’s fate will make people in the future think twice before trading in conspiracy theories, because they are incredibly destructive and systematically erode trust in our government and institutions. Maybe this will finally do the trick because it’s becoming evident that, eventually, you reap what you sow.