The United States will cease all payments and subsidies to South Africa and not invite the country to next year’s G20 summit in Florida, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday.
The statement comes days after the U.S. boycotted the 2025 G20 summit in Johannesburg. Tensions are rife between the two nations due to Trump’s disapproval of the racial discrimination against white farmers in the southernmost African country.
Trump opened his message with a rant against the persecution of Afrikaners, an ethnic group descended from Dutch settlers.
“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,” he wrote on Truth Social. “To put it more bluntly, they are killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them.”
Trump also criticized the New York Times and other outlets he considers “Fake News Media” for refusing to label the killings of white farmers in South Africa a genocide.
He then disinvited South Africa from the 2026 G20 summit in Miami because South African President Cyril Ramaphosa did not hand off the G20 presidency to a senior U.S. Embassy representative over the weekend.
The drastic move marks the first time a G20 member has been blocked from attending the international forum. The White House’s decision to boycott was entirely voluntary.
“South Africa has demonstrated to the World they are not a country worthy of Membership anywhere,” Trump said, “and we are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
A U.S. delegation was notably absent from the latest summit, which ran from Saturday to Sunday. It was the first held in Africa.
While boycotting the gathering of the world’s major economies, the Trump administration indicated that it would send its chargé d’affaires from the U.S. Embassy in South Africa to the G20 presidential transition. The South African leader declined to accept the representative because the U.S. was not present.
“The United States is a member of the G20, and if they want to be represented, they can still send anyone at the right level,” Ramaphosa said Saturday.
No ceremony for the handover has taken place, but the U.S. is set to assume the G20 presidency on Monday. The transfer of power occurred on Tuesday without the usual ceremony.
THE G20 SUMMIT IN SOUTH AFRICA ENDS WITH THE GLARING ABSENCE OF THE US AFTER TRUMP’S BOYCOTT
The next G20 summit is scheduled to take place from Dec. 14-15, 2026, in Doral, Florida, near Miami. Trump has said he will host the event at his golf club in Doral.
“It’s the best location, it’s beautiful, beautiful everything,” Trump said in September, adding his family’s business empire will not make any money from the event.
