South Africa Can Forget About G20 in Miami, Trump Says

President Trump announced Wednesday that South Africa will be barred from participating in next year’s Group of 20 summit in Miami and that the United States will “stop all payments and subsidies” to the country. The decision comes after a dispute over the treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s G20 meeting in South Africa.

Earlier this month, Trump chose not to send an American delegation to the summit, citing what he described as violent persecution of white Afrikaners—a claim that South Africa has dismissed as baseless, given the country’s history of racial apartheid, according to the AP.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said South Africa had refused to hand over its G20 hosting duties to a senior U.S. Embassy representative at the conclusion of the summit. “Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump wrote. “South Africa has demonstrated to the world they are not a country worthy of membership anywhere.” He added that U.S. payments to South Africa will stop immediately.

The handover of the G20 presidency traditionally involves a symbolic wooden gavel passed from the host nation to the incoming chair. This year, no American official was present to receive the gavel from South African President Cyril Ramaphosa due to the boycott. The U.S. had planned to send a representative from its embassy, but South Africa rejected the arrangement, calling it an insult to have Ramaphosa hand the gavel to what it described as a junior official.

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