President Donald Trump has declared that South Africa will not be invited to the 2026 G-20 summit in Florida, accusing the country of “horrific human rights abuses.”
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” Trump claimed in a Truth Social post. “At my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G-20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” he added.
The decision breaks with more than two decades of precedent and would mark the first exclusion of a G-20 member from the annual gathering of the world’s major economies. The group, responsible for roughly 80% of global GDP and two-thirds of the global population, has long emphasized inclusivity.
That tradition had already been tested after the U.S. boycott of the 2025 summit in Johannesburg earlier this month.
Trump also announced that he would cut off U.S. financial support to South Africa. “South Africa has demonstrated to the world they are not a country worthy of membership anywhere and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately,” he wrote.
It remains uncertain how this unprecedented step will shape South Africa’s role within the G-20 or influence broader U.S.–South Africa relations ahead of the 2026 summit.
Ties between Trump and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa have sharply deteriorated. In February, Trump suspended U.S. aid to South Africa, alleging discrimination against white farmers. The rift deepened in March when the State Department expelled South Africa’s ambassador, declaring him “persona non grata.”
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Make them stop the killings FIRST, Then we TALK. but only TALK.