To say that President Donald Trump is unhappy with the nation of South Africa would be to engage in a gross understatement.
Last spring, the president welcomed some legitimate asylum-seekers: White South Africans who feared having their farms, their property, and possibly their lives taken by armed gangs, which the South African government seems to have no interest in stopping. In some cases, the gangs have been actively encouraged.
Because of this, President Trump snubbed this year's G20 meeting in Johannesburg. Next year's G20 summit is in Miami, and it looks like South Africa won't be attending. Not because of any civil rights missteps by the United States, mind you, but because President Trump doesn't intend to allow their representatives into the country. On Wednesday, the president took to his Truth Social account to call the South Africans on the carpet.
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) November 26, 2025
The president's post reads (paragraph breaks added for clarity):
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 killing white people, and randomly allowing their farms to be taken from them. Perhaps, worst of all, the soon to be out of business New York Times and the Fake News Media won’t issue a word against this genocide. That’s why all the Liars and Pretenders of the Radical Left Media are going out of business!
At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony.
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. 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. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Granted, refusing to carry out the traditional G20 presidency handoff is a pretty nasty snub as well.
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South Africa is in the short bus of nations these days, but in that part of the world, it's not alone. I spent three weeks in Jo'Burg in 2010, and my colleague and I stayed in a lovely B&B on the edge of the city, run by a young Afrikaner couple. It was a lovely setting; the guest rooms were in a building that formed an "L" shape around the compound, with the office and a dining room forming the other half of a square. We ate breakfast and supper in that dining room, and the big double doors at the end of the one big, long table would be thrown open at supper to let the evening air in. The air rang with strange bird calls. After supper, we usually retired to the courtyard for adult beverages, provided gratis, and tobacco. It was like something out of a Kipling novel. But the compound was surrounded by a 10-foot concrete wall topped with razor wire. We were driven to and from the work site, and were cautioned to never, ever leave the compound, as it wasn't safe - especially for white people.
That was 15 years ago. Things have gotten worse.
President Trump is right to put pressure on South Africa. The United States didn't hesitate to put pressure on the old South African government over apartheid; we shouldn't hesitate to put pressure on South Africa now, over the persecution of its white minority. Cold-shouldering them over the Miami G20 and cutting any foreign aid seems like a good place to start.
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