"President Donald Trump on Friday announced that no US officials would attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa later this month, citing the country's treatment of white farmers. "It is a total disgrace that the G20 will be held in South Africa," Trump posted on his Truth Social network. The Trump administration has long accused the South African government of discriminating against its white minority, citing alleged land seizures and violence."
"The South African government has denied that Afrikaners and other white South Africans are being persecuted. "No US government official will attend as long as these human rights abuses continue," Trump said in his post. Trump said at a business event earlier this week in Miami that South Africa should be thrown out of the group of the world's largest economies, saying: "South Africa shouldn't even be in the Gs anymore, because what's happened there is bad.""
President Donald Trump announced no US officials will attend the Group of 20 summit in South Africa, citing South Africa's treatment of white farmers. He called holding the G20 there "a total disgrace" on Truth Social. The Trump administration accuses the South African government of discriminating against its white minority, citing alleged land seizures and violence; the South African government denies that Afrikaners and other white South Africans are being persecuted. Trump said he would skip the summit and that Vice President JD Vance would attend; Reuters reported Vance is not traveling. The United States will assume the G20 presidency after this summit on November 22-23, and Trump plans to hold next year's summit at his Miami golf resort.
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