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U.S. President Donald Trump has said helium volition not be the G20 Summit scheduled to beryllium held successful South Africa aboriginal this month.
“I americium not going. We person a G20 gathering successful South Africa. South Africa shouldn't adjacent beryllium successful the Gs anymore due to the fact that what's happened determination is bad. I told them I'm not going. I'm not going to correspond our state there. It shouldn't beryllium there,” Mr. Trump said astatine the America Business Forum successful Miami connected Wednesday (November 5, 2025).
South Africa assumed the year-long G20 Presidency connected December 1, 2024, and volition big the group’s leaders for a acme gathering successful Johannesburg from November 22 to 23, the archetypal clip the G20 Summit volition beryllium held connected African soil.
India was the President of the G20 from December 2022 to November 2023 and had hosted the 18th G20 Summit successful New Delhi successful September 2023.
Then-U.S, President Joe Biden had travelled to India to be the G20 Summit.
The G20 comprises 19 countries – Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, the United Kingdom, and the United States arsenic good arsenic the European Union and the African Union.
It was nether India’s G20 Presidency that the African Union officially joined the grouping of the world’s large economies arsenic a imperishable member.
As helium slammed “communist” New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, Mr. Trump said that Miami has for generations been a haven for those fleeing communist tyranny successful South Africa.
“I mean, instrumentality a look astatine what's happening successful antithetic parts of South America. Take a look astatine what's happening successful antithetic parts of the world,” Mr. Trump said.
