U.S. government officials will not attend this year’s G20 summit in South Africa, President Donald Trump said Friday, as the president continues to rail against the host country’s alleged discrimination of its white citizens.
Trump had previously said he wouldn’t attend the summit — a meeting of world leaders to discuss economic development — with Vice President JD Vance slated to attend in the president’s absence. But the boycott would effectively pull the U.S.’s presence from the conference entirely.
“Afrikaners (People who are descended from Dutch settlers and also French and German immigrants) are being killed and slaughtered, and their land and farms are being illegally confiscated,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “No U.S. Government Official will attend as long as these Human Rights abuses continue.”
Trump has continued to condemn the country for what he says is discrimination against its white population, claiming earlier this year that the country was committing “genocide” against white citizens. But South African officials have continued to rebuff the claims.
“Have they told you where that is, Mr. President?” South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said earlier this year. “I’d like to know where that is, because this I’ve never seen.”
The Trump administration has also prioritized refugee admissions for Afrikaners.
Each year, a different G20 member hosts the summit to discuss a theme of their choosing, with the U.S. on deck to host next year’s meeting at Trump’s property in Miami.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio also said earlier this year that he’d boycott the G20 summit in Johannesburg because of “bad things” happening in the country, panning the summit’s focus on “solidarity, equality, & sustainability.”
“In other words: DEI and climate change,” Rubio said on X in February.



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