Julius Malema Accuses Trump, Others Of ‘Gossiping’ About Him In The White House

President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa watching the videos at the White House on May 21, 2025

Source: Africa Publicity

Leader of South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters and lawmaker, Julius Malema, has made a sarcastic post on social media, accusing US President Donald Trump and other “older men in Washington” of gossiping about him.

He made the post after President Trump showed videos of him (Malema) chanting “Kill the Boer” during a meeting with South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, at The Oval Office of The White House on Wednesday, May 21, 2025.

In his sarcastic response, Malema says “A group of older men meet in Washington to gossip about me, adding that “No significant amount of intelligence evidence (sic) has been produced about White genocide. We will not agree to compromise our political principles on land expropriation without compensation for political expediency.”

South Africa’s Agriculture Minister, John Henry Steenhuisen had swiftly condemned Malema and those who chanted in the videos shown by Trump, describing them as extremists.

Steenhuisen told President Trump that his Democratic Alliance party had joined Ramaphosa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) in a coalition to keep Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) out of government.

Referring to the South African executive offices in Pretoria, the Agriculture Minister says “We cannot have those people sitting in the Union Buildings making decisions,” adding “That is why, after 30 years of us exchanging barbs across the floor in parliament and trying to get one over on each other, we’ve decided to join hands precisely to keep that lot out of government.”

Afrikaners, otherwise known as Boers, are the descendants of predominantly white Dutch settlers in South Africa. A discriminatory apartheid government led by Afrikaners lost power in the mid-1990s.

The song Malema was singing in the video played by Trump first emerged in the 1980s to rail against apartheid which forcibly dispossessed Black South Africans of their lands for the benefit of Whites.

The song was made popular again by the radical politician and his left-wing EFF party.