When Trump Was the One Taking Land From Farmers

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "Eminent domain is very interesting," Trump said in a speech in 2019 in the Rose Garden.
50% : It was in South Texas, and it was because of Trump.
46% : How Trump is changing Washington, the country and its politics.
37% : Trump Administration: Live Updates Updated May 20, 2025, 10:49 p.m. ETMay 20, 2025 An official pushed to rewrite intelligence so it could not be 'used against' Trump.
36% : It's an accusation that skips over the facts, but one that has shaped his administration's decision to welcome white Afrikaners as refugees -- and its animus toward the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, whom Trump is meeting with in Washington today.
35% : "Take the land," Trump told his aides in 2019, as he pushed them to accelerate construction -- years before he would accuse the African National Congress of confiscating land.
32% : 'I don't want to see a damn wall.' Take Richard Drawe, who supports Trump and his goal of bolstering border security.
29% : That has not stopped Trump from falsely accusing South Africa of "confiscating land" as he cut off foreign aid to the nation this year.
27% : But Trump himself used government-sanctioned land grabs in recent years to build his promised wall along the United States-Mexico border, albeit through a system that works very differently from South Africa's.
16% : President Trump has repeatedly attacked South Africa during his second term, accusing its government of seizing land from white farmers as part of a systemic persecution of Afrikaners, the white ethnic minority that led the apartheid regime.

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