rump will not attend 2025 G20 in South Africa
Published Sep 05, 2025 at 5:49 PM EDT
... "I won't be going this year," Trump told reporters ... Trump added that next year's G20 will be held at his family-owned Doral golf resort near Miami ... During his first term, Trump proposed hosting a global summit at his Doral resort but abandoned the plan after facing criticism from Republicans over potential conflicts of interest ... "Well, I think everybody wants it there," Trump said Friday when asked if the global summit would be at his golf club and spa ... The U.S. last hosted a G20 summit in Pittsburgh in 2009 ... Early in his second term, Trump suspended all U.S. aid to South Africa and launched a refugee program specifically for white Afrikaners, claiming they were victims of "race-based discrimination" ... Tensions peaked .. in May when Trump confronted President Cyril Ramaphosa by .. presenting a video montage .. to support false claims of "white genocide" in South Africa. Ramaphosa, maintaining composure, firmly denied such allegations ... Trump further escalated tensions by re-imposing tariffs on South African goods ...
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-g20-summit-south-africa-jd-vance-2125451
G29 Doral! Come for the bedbugs; stay for the insults and tariffs!
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