During a meeting at the White House, South African professional golfer Retief Goosen shared with President Cyril Ramaphosa that some of his father’s farmer friends had been killed in South Africa. Goosen explained that his father was a property developer and part-time farmer, and expressed concerns about the ongoing battle to protect farms from being burned down. President Donald Trump also showed footage of burial sites of white farmers in South Africa, which he described as a tragic sight with over a thousand crosses marking the graves. The meeting raised awareness of the violence against white Afrikaner farmers in South Africa, sparking discussions about potential genocide.