"When Donald Trump welcomes the Group of 20 to his private golf resort in Miami next year, he'll decide who's on the guest list. That much is clear after the US president said in a social media post Wednesday that he won't invite South Africa, the holder of this year's G-20 presidency and the object of the US president's ire for some time now."
"The move puts other G-20 members in a bind: ignore the insult and make the trip anyway, or stand in solidarity and risk the full force of a Trump blowback in trade tariffs, technology embargoes or worse. "This is one of the most important multilateral forums we still have in the world," and a format that "we should not diminish unnecessarily," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in Berlin on Thursday, when asked about Trump's comments."
Donald Trump will host the G-20 summit at his Miami golf resort and has announced he will not invite South Africa, the current G-20 president. The decision lets the host leader dictate attendance and uses a private hotel for the summit, breaching long-established protocol. Other members face a dilemma: attend despite the insult or boycott in solidarity and risk US retaliation through tariffs, technology embargoes or worse. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz criticized the choice as relinquishing influence and warned against diminishing the forum. South African officials fear possible expulsion, but any membership change requires consensus. The dispute follows Trump's unproven genocide claims about White Afrikaners and a feud with President Cyril Ramaphosa.
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