Recordings of these segments were released online in March 2019 by the progressive Media Matters for America. "The Washington Post" labelled these comments racist. When Mitt Romney condemned then-candidate Donald Trump after Trump evaded questions about David Duke's support, saying it was a "disqualifying and disgusting response," Carlson criticized Romney. Carlson said "Obama could have written" that. In August 2018, Carlson ran a segment in which he alleged that the South African government was targeting white farmers during its ongoing land reform efforts due to anti-white racism. He interviewed Marian Tupy, an analyst at the Cato Institute, who likened South African farmers facing land seizures to white farmers in Zimbabwe who lost their farms in a controversial land reform policy under the President Robert Mugabe. In the segment, Carlson criticized "elites" who were purportedly concerned about racism "paying no attention" to the "racist government of South Africa." He accused South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of changing the country's constitution to enable land theft from whites, and without compensation, because "they are the wrong skin color." CBS News, Associated Press, "The New York Times" and "The Wall Street Journal" described Carlson's segment on South Africa's corrective reparations as false or misleading. In addition to presenting statistics that violence against farmers had reached an all-time low, they noted that the reforms had yet to pass and were primarily aimed at land that had fallen into disuse. Following the Carlson segment, President Trump tweeted that he had instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to "closely study the South Africa land and farm seizure and large scale killing of farmers." Trump's tweet was denounced as "'misinformed'" by the South African government, which stated that it would address the matter through diplomatic channels. AfriForum, a South African non-governmental organisation focused mainly on the interests of Afrikaners, took credit for Carlson and Trump's statements, saying it believed that its campaign to influence American politics had succeeded. The evening following the segment, Carlson corrected the statements he had made about the South African land reform, though he did not admit to having made errors. He said the proposed constitutional amendment was still being debated in South Africa and added that no farms had yet been expropriated. Carlson later stated in an interview that he "doesn't believe anyone should be rewarded or punished based upon characteristics they can't control" and added that his South Africa segment made "an argument against tribalism." Carlson concluded his July 9, 2019 "Tucker Carlson Tonight" episode with a 3-minute monologue about Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), criticizing her for being ungrateful to the United States, where she had been granted asylum, and called her "living proof that the way we practice immigration has become dangerous to this country."