Trump is doing his No YOU’RE the racists number again.

Donald Trump has said the US will not attend the G20 summit in South Africa over widely discredited claims that white people are being persecuted in the country. The US president said it was a “total disgrace” that South Africa is hosting the meeting, where leaders from the world’s largest economies will gather in Johannesburg later this month.

South Africa’s foreign ministry described the decision by the White House as “regrettable”. None of South Africa’s political parties – including those that represent Afrikaners and the white community in general – have claimed that there is a genocide in South Africa.

Ah yes “the white communinny” – who knew there was one?

Never mind. The important thing is that Trump knows better than any mere South African person; if he says there’s a genocide against white people in South Africa then there is one.

Since returning to office in January, Trump has repeatedly accused South Africa of discriminating against its white minority, including in May when when he confronted his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office.

The Trump administration has given Afrikaners refugee status, stating a “genocide” is taking place in South Africa. Last week, the White House announced plans to caps refugee admissions at a record low, and give priority to white South Africans.

He’s teaching us a lesson. We are meant to learn that that whole history of kidnapping into slavery and centuries of forcible enslavement and then another century of profound race-based exclusion and persecution never happened – it was all a big story told to abuse our darling virtuous white country.