‘They are killing white people’: Donald Trump on why US boycotted Johannesburg Summit, South Africa won’t be invited to G20 in Miami
This is not the first time Trump has claimed that the white minority, which once ruled South Africa, is being persecuted and that their land and other assets are being taken away.
November 28, 2025 11:31 PM IST
First published on: Nov 28, 2025 at 11:31 PM IST
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US President Donald Trump speaks to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
US President Donald Trump has accused South Africa of failing to address “horrific human rights abuses” faced by the white Afrikaners in the country. In a lengthy social media post, Trump said the US did not attend the G20 in South Africa because the government there refuses to acknowledge the atrocities committed on Afrikaners, and other descendants of Dutch, French, and German settlers in the country.
‘They are killing white people’
“To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them,” Trump said.
The US President also accused ‘Radical Left Media’, including The New York Times, of being silent on the ‘genocide’.
Johannesburg, the biggest city of South Africa, hosted the G20 Summit, the first on the African continent, on November 22 and 23. The US was the only G20 member country to have boycotted the gathering.
People walk by a large screen TV where South African President Cyril Ramaphosa holds a wooden gavel as he officially closes the G20 leaders’ summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Though Trump had announced a boycott, the US had sent a representative to attend the gathering only in a ceremonial capacity as the host of the next G20 summit.
South Africa not invited to 2026 G20 Summit in Miami
According to Trump, at the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to the US representative.
“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,” Trump said.
“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,” he added.
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…
US President Donald Trump shows alleged news reports of attacks on white South Africans as he meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House. (Photo: REUTERS)
Alleged white genocide in South Africa
This is not the first time Trump has claimed that the white minority, which once ruled South Africa, is being persecuted and that their land and other assets are being taken away.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who was born in South Africa, has also long promoted the unproven conspiracy theory of a “white genocide” in South Africa, charges which the Cyril Ramaphosa government has strongly denied.
Trump has also used the white genocide claim to shape his immigration policy. Earlier this year, the US set a cap of 7,500 refugees to be accepted into the country annually, with priority for white South Africans.
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US President Donald Trump speaks to troops via video from his Mar-a-Lago estate on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2025, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) 
