Trump teases no-show at G20 summit after clash with South Africa over violence against white Afrikaner farmers

Trump teases no-show at G20 summit after clash with South Africa over violence against white Afrikaner farmers


President Donald Trump on Tuesday suggested he might not attend the G20 summit in South Africa due to the country’s “very bad policies.” 

“I think maybe I’ll send somebody else because I’ve had a lot of problems with South Africa. They have some very bad policies,” Trump said on Air Force One on his way back to the United States from a Scotland trip. “Very, very bad policies, like policies where people are being killed.”

South Africa will host the G20 Leaders’ Summit in November, making it the first to take place on African soil. 

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The Trump administration has engaged in a guessing game about whether U.S. officials will boycott the summit, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio announcing in May that neither he nor the

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