Trump to Boycott G20 Summit in South Africa

US President Donald Trump has announced that no American officials will attend the upcoming G20 summit in South Africa later this month, reviving long-debunked claims that white citizens are being “killed and slaughtered” in the country.It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday. “No US Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.”Trump had earlier said in September that Vice President JD Vance would represent the United States at the summit instead of him. However, the president has now reversed that position, saying he will boycott the event altogether.South Africa shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore, because what’s happened there is bad,” Trump said at the American Business Forum in Miami. “I’m not going … I’m not going to represent our country there. It shouldn’t be there,” he added, referring ...

• 08 Nov 2025