President Donald Trump said he would not attend this year’s Group of 20 leaders’ summit in Johannesburg in November, after months of attacks on South Africa’s government over unfounded claims it’s carrying out a genocide on White Afrikaners. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday that Vice President JD Vance would represent the US instead. “He looks forward to it, but no, I won’t be going,” Trump said. Doubts had persisted about whether Trump would participate in the summit. Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested in May that Trump would not join the meeting, accusing South Africa of being “consistently unaligned” with US policy. The president’s fight with South Africa reached a boiling point in May when he ambushed President Cyril Ramaphosa with a video purporting to back up his claims that White farmers are being targeted.
Sam Busa