President Trump said on Friday that the United States will not be part of the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in South Africa, calling it “completely outrageous.”
Trump said, “Africans (descendants of Dutch settlers, as well as French and German immigrants) are being killed and their land and farms are being illegally seized.” a true social post,
The post also read, “No US government official will be involved as long as human rights abuses continue.” “I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, Florida!”
In May, the White House told Federal agencies will shut down work ahead of the G20 summit on November 22-23. Trump indicated at the time that the US would not participate.
“I think there’s going to be a G-20 meeting there… I don’t know how we can go unless that situation is taken care of,” Trump said. “But it’s a genocide that’s happening that you guys don’t want to write about. But it’s a terrible thing that’s happening. And farmers are being killed. They’re white.”
The president focused on claims that Africans, South Africa’s white ethnic minority, have been unfairly targeted. In February, he signed a executive Order To ban sending foreign aid to South Africa, claiming that its government’s actions were “promoting disproportionate violence against radically hostile landowners.”
Days before Trump issued the executive order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Posted on social platform That he “will not attend the G20 summit in Johannesburg.”
“South Africa is doing very bad things. Confiscating private property,” Rubio wrote. “Using the G20 to Promote ‘Solidarity, Equality and Stability’.” In other words: DEI and climate change. “My job is to advance America’s national interests, not to waste taxpayer money or promote anti-Americanism.”
Trump administration has also allowed Africans to enter the United States as refugeesClaiming that the refugees were victims of “racial discrimination”. Late last month, President set the lowest ever Targeting US refugee admissions, allowing only a maximum of 7,500 refugees and dictating that the majority of spots should be given to white South Africans.
White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller told reporters in May, “What’s happening in South Africa fits the textbook definition of why the refugee program was created… race-based persecution.”
Later that month, Trump met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office. showed a video To support the US President’s claims of genocide against white South Africans.
“And I must say, many people have said, ‘It was an ambush. It was an ambush,'” Ramaphosa joked at the Sustainable Infrastructure Development symposium in Cape Town, according to the SABC. video footage“And I was took away the power of thoughtI was [saying]’What is happening?'”
Trump said in September The 2026 G20 will be held in Doral Resort near Miami.
“I think everybody wants it here because it’s right next to the airport. It’s the best location. Everything is beautiful here,” Trump told reporters. “We won’t make any money on it. I think it will be a really beautiful thing. And Doral has been very, very successful. One of the most successful properties in the country.”
