The G20 Summit, which is set to take place in South Africa later this month, will not be attended by US President Donald Trump.
"I'm not leaving. In South Africa, we have a G20 gathering. Given the terrible events that have occurred there, South Africa shouldn't even be in the Gs anymore.
I informed them that I would not be attending. I will not be representing our nation there. "It shouldn't be there," Trump stated on Wednesday at the America Business Forum in Miami.
On December 1, 2024, South Africa took over the year long G20 Presidency. On November 22 and 23, the group's leaders will gather in Johannesburg for the first-ever G20 Summit on African land.
India hosted the 18th G20 Summit in New Delhi in September 2023 while serving as G20 President from December 2022 to November 2023. Joe Biden, the US president at the time, had gone to India to attend the G20 Summit.
Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkiye, the United Kingdom, the United States, the European Union, and the African Union are among the 19 nations that make up the G20.
The African Union formally became a permanent member of the group of the world's leading economies under India's G20 presidency.
Trump said that Miami has long been a refuge for those escaping communist oppression in South Africa while denouncing "communist" Zohran Mamdani, the incoming mayor of New York City.
"I mean, look at what's going on in various regions of South America. "Look at what's going on around the world," Trump stated.
