US President Donald Trump has threatened to skip the G20 summit in South Africa, repeating claims of alleged anti-white crimes.
Trump, in a new lashing against South Africa, through a post on his Truth Social, repeated claims of farmland being confiscated from white farmers who were being killed in a genocide.
“Is this where we want to be for the G20? I don’t think so!”; his post said.
DAILY POST reports that South Africa holds this year’s presidency of the G20 group of leading economies and hosts its annual leaders’ summit in November.
Relations between South Africa and the United States have reportedly gone sour under Trump’s administration, which has repeatedly accused Pretoria of anti-white policies.
When asked about Trump’s suggestion that he would not attend the summit, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa’s spokesman said they were no longer expecting him to attend the summit.
Trump’s post included video clips of the leader of the small, far-left opposition Economic Freedom Fighters, EFF, party, Julius Malema, making statements about occupying land and killing as a revolutionary act.
The party, in a furious reaction, said on Saturday that Trump was using it as an excuse “to avoid facing his global peers”; after his announcement of trade tariffs on several countries, accusing the US leader of economic genocide.
“It is clear that he fears facing his counterparts following his humiliating tariff stunt,”; it said.
The South African government said it has no intention to seize land and none has been confiscated, adding that Trump’s allegations of a “white genocide”; echo unfounded claims from far-right lobbies.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio refused to attend a G20 foreign ministers meeting in South Africa in February, saying it had an “anti-American”; agenda.
