The United States has just boycotted the recent G20 summit organized by South Africa. The next step was to veto South Africa in the G20. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on his blog: “The politics of resentment have carried over into South Africa’s G20 presidency, exercising rancor, division and extremist agendas that have nothing to do with economic growth. South Africa has focused on climate change, diversity and inclusion, and aid dependency as core principles of its working groups.”
This means that, for the Trump administration, talk about climate change, diversity, inclusion, and development aid amounts to “discontent, division, and radical agendas.”
According to Rubio, South Africa’s G20 presidency “systematically ignored US objections to communications and data, blocked contributions from the United States and other countries to the negotiations, and denigrated the G20.” For these reasons, Rubio says, “President Trump and the United States will not invite the South African government to participate in the G20 during our presidency. There is room for disagreement in good faith, but not for dishonesty or subversion.”
“Rather than take responsibility for its failures, South Africa’s radical ANC-led government has sought to shift the blame onto its own citizens and the United States,” says Rubio. “As President Trump rightly pointed out, the South African government’s appetite for racism and tolerance of violence against its own Afrikaner citizens have become key domestic policies. Its former ambassador to the United States was openly hostile to that country. Its ties to Iran, its welcome of Hamas sympathizers, and its approach to America’s “greatest adversary are alienating it.” From the Family of Nations. Which we once considered close to us.
While the United States vetoes South Africa, the country that led complaints in international justice against Israeli genocide, Washington invites Poland, whose president, Karol Nawrocki, was supported by Donald Trump in the election campaign.
Nawrocki, of the extremist Law and Justice party, which has persecuted abortion in government and curtailed gay rights to the point of receiving sanctions files from the European Commission, was greeted with full honors in the Oval Office by Trump.
The US Secretary of State said: “We will invite friends, neighbors and partners to the US G20. We will welcome the world’s largest economies, as well as emerging partners and allies, to the US table. In particular, Poland, a country that was once trapped behind the Iron Curtain and is now among the world’s 20 largest economies, will join us to take its rightful place in the G20. Poland’s success is proof that focusing on the future is better than focusing on grievances. It shows how successful the partnership has been.” With the United States and American companies can promote mutual prosperity and growth.
G20 at Trump Club
Donald Trump has decided to hold the G20 summit next year at his golf club in South Florida. During his first term, Trump attempted to host a global summit at Trump’s Doral Club, but backed out after criticism from his party over the appropriateness of doing so.
This will be the first time the North American country has hosted the event in two decades, since 2009 in Pittsburgh. “As we celebrate our nation’s 250th anniversary next year, the United States will have the honor of hosting the G20 summit for the first time in nearly 20 years,” said Trump, who stated that he “doesn’t make any money” from the operation.
Trump Doral is a luxury tourist resort with more than 300 hectares and four golf courses.
At the same time as he announced the 2026 summit at his resort in Miami last September, Trump confirmed that he would not attend this year’s G20 summit in South Africa, a country with which he has a dispute because it is a BRICS country, and for the process that Johannesburg led against the Israeli genocide in international justice.
South Africa assumed the rotating presidency of the G20 on December 1, 2024, and held it until November 30 of this year, when the United States assumed this presidency.