Trump Nukes South Africa’s G20 Invite After Diplomatic Showdown
President Trump, in a blistering Wednesday Truth Social post, laid out precisely why the United States boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg — and why South Africa will not be receiving an invitation to next year’s summit in Miami.
Trump accused the South African government of refusing to acknowledge what he called “horrific Human Rights Abuses” against Afrikaners — descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers — alleging killings, farm seizures, and state-backed discrimination. He blasted the legacy media, particularly The New York Times, accusing them of covering up what he described as a slow-motion genocide. And in classic Trump fashion, he tied the media’s silence to their failing business models: “That’s why all the liars and pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business!”
The confrontation did not begin on Wednesday. For weeks, the Trump administration had signaled it would boycott the South Africa–hosted G20, marking the first such U.S. absence in the summit’s history. State Department officials had already charged South Africa with inciting race-based hostility and enabling policies — including the 2024 Expropriation Act — that, they argued, unfairly target white farmers. Trump had previously confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office, accusing him of ignoring violence against Afrikaners, a claim Ramaphosa publicly rejected.
When the summit opened on November 22, the U.S. stuck with its boycott but dispatched a junior diplomat, the chargé d’affaires, to accept the rotating G20 presidency for 2026. That’s when the situation escalated. South African officials refused to hand over the ceremonial gavel to a lower-ranking American, calling it a breach of diplomatic protocol — something, they noted, that had “never happened before” at any G20. Trump, in his Truth Social post, characterized this as yet another insult from a government “not worthy of Membership anywhere.”
After the summit closed, South Africa quietly completed the handoff anyway — but only in a closed-door meeting between mid-level diplomats in Pretoria. By then, the damage was done. Trump announced that South Africa would be barred from the 2026 G20 in Miami and that all U.S. “payments and subsidies” to Pretoria would be halted immediately.
Meanwhile, senior administration officials told Fox News Digital that the refugee cap for 2026 will reserve a majority of its 7,500 slots for Afrikaners fleeing what the U.S. now formally describes as systemic, government-driven discrimination.
In short: a historic boycott, a diplomatic standoff, and Washington making clear it will not treat South Africa as a normal partner until the situation changes.
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