Trump will not invite South Africa to G20 in US [View all]
Source: CNN Politics
Updated Nov 26, 2025, 8:05 PM ET
PUBLISHED Nov 26, 2025, 11:42 AM ET
The Trump administration will not invite South Africa to take part in G20 events hosted in the United States next year and will “immediately” stop payments to the African nation, President Donald Trump said Wednesday,
“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 said in a post on social media. “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.”
The exclusion of South Africa from the meetings of the world’s most important economies is an unprecedented step and would mark the first time a country was outright excluded from them in its more than 20-year history.
South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa responded later Wednesday to what he called Trump’s “regrettable statement.” “South Africa is a sovereign constitutional democratic country and does not appreciate insults from another country about its worth in participating in global platforms,” the South African presidency said in a statement on X.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/26/politics/trump-administration-not-planning-invite-south-africa-g20
One day he'll find out that South Africa is the only country on the continent with nuclear power and then he will start ranting and raving that it should be shut down and whatnot.
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