Trump says South Africa won't be invited to attend G20 summit next year in U.S.

The president's announcement on Truth Social Wednesday included baseless claims of a "white genocide" against Afrikaners in South Africa.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that officials from South Africa would not be invited to next year's summit of leading rich and developing nations in Miami, just days after this year's meeting wrapped up with barely any U.S. presence.

"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," Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The Group of 20 consists of 19 countries, plus the European Union and the African Union. This year's summit was held in South Africa, with no high-level U.S. officials in attendance following Trump's baseless claims of a "white genocide" against Afrikaners, the white ethnic minority that ruled South Africa during apartheid.

The claims were boosted this year by tech mogul Elon Musk — a South African native — who spent the first few months of Trump's second term serving as an adviser to the president and overseeing the Department of Government Efficiency.

In May, Trump hosted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at the White House for what devolved into a tense meeting that included Trump’s playing a video on TV screens in the Oval Office with a montage of clips that he said backed up his claims of genocide. Ramaphosa and other South Africans have vigorously denied the genocide claims.