Trump denounces South Africa and excludes the country from the G20 in 2026

Trump says the US boycotted the G20 and would stop payments until it receives an invitation in 2026, and he accuses South Africa of violating human rights.

In a severe denunciation of South Africa, US President Donald Trump said that Afrikaners and other descendants of European settlers were subjected to pervasive violations of their human rights. Pretoria “refuses to acknowledge or address” what he described as massacres and forced land takeovers targeting white inhabitants, he said in a statement, which is why the US missed the recent G20 Summit in South Africa.

Major US media institutions came under heavy fire from Trump, who claimed that their silence was motivated by political bias and accused them of ignoring what he called “genocide.”

He added that a senior US Embassy person who was present at the closing ceremony refused to formally accept South Africa’s G20 Presidency. He said the action supported the United States’ decision to deny South Africa an invitation to the 2026 G20 Summit in Miami, Florida.

Trump went on to say that South Africa “is not a country worthy of membership anywhere” and declared that the US would stop all payments and supports to the nation right once.

The claims have not yet received a response from the South African government.