On November 27, 2025, US President Trump announced on Wednesday (November 26) that South Africa will not be invited to next year’s Group of Twenty (G20) summit in the United States. The United States will also immediately cease providing subsidies to South Africa.
President Trump posted on his social media platform “Truth Social” on Wednesday, stating that the United States did not attend this year’s G20 summit held in South Africa because the South African government refuses to acknowledge or address the appalling human rights violations suffered by white South Africans and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German immigrants.
“In more blunt terms, they are killing white people, and are arbitrarily allowing white farms to be confiscated. Perhaps the worst part is that the failing New York Times and those fake news media outlets are not saying a word about this genocide. This is why all those radical left-wing media deceivers and hypocrites are going out of business!” Trump said.
The President also said that at the end of the G20 summit, South Africa refused to transfer the G20 chairmanship to the senior representative of the US embassy attending the closing ceremony. “Therefore, as per my instructions, South Africa will not receive an invitation to the 2026 G20 summit. The summit will be held next year in the great city of Miami, Florida. South Africa has proven to the world that it does not deserve to be a member of any organization, and we will immediately cease all payments and subsidies to them.”
The 2025 G20 Leaders’ Summit took place in Johannesburg, South Africa from November 22 to 23. President Trump had previously announced that he would not attend the summit because South Africa was “severely violating human rights” and persecuting white farm owners.
Before the summit, the Trump administration warned South Africa not to issue any joint statements or declarations in the name of the “G20 consensus” while the United States was absent from the summit. However, a declaration on addressing the climate crisis and other global challenges was still adopted at the G20 summit.
In May of this year, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the White House and during his meeting with Trump, he denied that there was a genocide against white farmers in South Africa.
Accompanying the South African President’s visit to the White House was South African white golfer Retief Goosen, who detailed the difficulties his family faced on their family farm in South Africa during a meeting in the Oval Office and told President Trump that South African farmers were facing “some problems.”
While Goosen did not support Trump’s claim about white South Africans facing “genocide,” he acknowledged that farmers were facing a “continuous struggle” and pointed out that their farms were being burned, equipment stolen, with the aim of driving them off their land.