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United States President Donald Trump announced that no official from the United States would attend this year's Group of 20 (G20) Summit in South Africa. Earlier this year, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had boycotted a G20 meeting for foreign ministers because its agenda focused on diversity, inclusion and climate change efforts. The United States is set to take over the G20 presidency from South Africa. Trump cited the country's treatment of farmers as the reason behind his decision. “It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump said on his social media site. In his post, Trump cited “abuses” of Afrikaners, including violence and death as well as confiscation of their land and farms. "It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa. Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers, and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated. No US Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue. I look forward to hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, Florida," Trump posted on Truth Social on Friday. Trump had already announced he would not attend the annual summit for heads of state from the globe’s leading and emerging economies. Vice President JD Vance had been scheduled to attend in Trump’s place, but a person familiar with Vance’s plans told news agency Associated Press that the US Vice President would no longer travel there for the summit. The HISTORY The Trump administration has long accused the South African government of allowing minority white Afrikaner farmers to be persecuted and attacked. As it restricted the number of refugees admitted annually to the U.S. to 7,500, the administration indicated that most would be white South Africans who it claimed faced discrimination and violence at home. Reacting to the development, the government of South Africa has said it is surprised by the accusations of discrimination, because white people in the country generally have a much higher standard of living than its Black residents, more than three decades after the end of the apartheid system of white minority rule. The country’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has said he’s told Trump that information about the alleged discrimination and persecution of Afrikaners is “completely false.” Get Latest News Live on Times Now along with Breaking News and Top Headlines from US News and around the World.
