On Air Force One, President Trump was asked about controversy around allowing white Afrikaners in as refugees.
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00:00So you're welcoming white South Afrikaners into the country as refugees when you've closed off that door to a lot of other refugees from other parts of the world.
00:10What message does that send to those who say it isn't? Why is that fair?
00:14Well, I think if I see people in distress, I don't care what color, what they look like, what anything, their size, their height, their eyes.
00:23I don't care. But I think that from all evidence, the farmers in South Africa are being treated brutally.
00:32And it's been reported and nobody wants to cover it. But they happen to be white.
00:38And if they were black, I'd do the exact same thing.
00:41And we treat people very well when we see there's a genocide going on.
00:45So if it's a genocide, that's terrible. And I happen to believe it could very well be.
00:50South Africa is out of control and it's been out of control for a long time.
00:54And the media doesn't report it. And I'm not looking for reporting because, believe me, it's easier for me not to do anything.
01:01It's a lot easier because I don't get nasty questions like that.
01:04But the fact is that we're about saving lives and we're going to do that.
01:08So we've made a home and we'll make a home for other people that are treated badly no matter what their color.