President Trump said South Africa will not be receiving an invitation to the 2026 Group of 20 Summit held in Miami because of its treatment of a U.S. representative at this year’s summit.
Mr. Trump also said all “payments and subsidies” to South Africa will be stopped.
“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,” he wrote Wednesday on Truth Social. “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 G20 is an international forum whose members include 19 countries plus the European Union and the African Union.
The U.S. did not send a high-ranking representative to the G20 summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week due to the country’s treatment of white Afrikaners. Originally, Vice President J.D. Vance was supposed to attend instead of Mr. Trump.
The only U.S. representation sent was supposed to accept the G20 hosting responsibilities, but Mr. Trump said South Africa refused to hand it over.
“The United States did not attend the G20 in South Africa, because the South African Government refuses to acknowledge or address the horrific Human Right Abuses endured by Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers. To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” he wrote. “At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony.”
The Trump administration maintains that the South African government has allowed the attacks and persecution of white Afrikaner farmers. He granted refugee status to the minority Afrikaners who fled South Africa earlier this year, with a group arriving in May.
The president met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in May at the White House, where he pressed him on the issue. Mr. Ramaphosa was caught by surprise during the visit that he said he hoped would “reset the strategic relationship between the two countries,” when Mr. Trump played a presentation and asked the foreign leader to address the issue.
The government has said any claims of persecution against White Afrikaners are “completely false.”
“The South African Police Services statistics on farm-related crimes do not support allegations of violent crime targeted at farmers generally or any particular race,” the country’s Ministry of International Relations and Cooperation said in a statement.
“There are sufficient structures available within South Africa to address concerns of discrimination. Moreover, even if there are allegations of discrimination, it is our view that these do not meet the threshold of persecution required under domestic and international refugee law,” the ministry said.
The next G20 summit is scheduled for December 2026 at Trump National Doral Miami, the president’s golf course.
In September, Mr. Trump said that “everybody” wants the summit at his Doral resort because it’s near the airport. He said his resort will not make a profit from the summit.
“We’re doing a deal where it’s not going to be money. There’s no money in it. I just want it to go well,” he said, adding each country will have their own building.
