Trump can skip the G20 summit in South Africa on his “very bad politicians”

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he could skip the G20 summit in South Africa in November during the country’s “very bad politicians” and send someone else to represent the United States.

Trump made the remarks on the Air Force One in response to the question of a journalist when he returned from a trip to Scotland, where the president concluded a massive trade agreement with the European Union.

“I may think that someone else will give way because I had a lot of problems with South Africa,” said Trump. “They have very bad politicians.”

“Very, very bad politicians, like politicians where people are killed,” added Trump.

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President Donald Trump speaks with journalists in the Air Force One after leaving Aberdeen, Scotland on Tuesday on the way to Washington. (AP photo / Jacquelyn Martin)

In May, Trump confronted South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House with press clippings and a video showing a serious treatment of white farmers.

President Donald Trump and Cyril Ramaphosa, president of South Africa, during a meeting at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday May 21, 2025. (Jim Lo Scalzo / EPA / Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Trump said South African White African farmers were slaughtered and forced to leave their land. The Afrikaners are descendants of Dutch settlers who arrived for the first time in South Africa in 1652.

South Africa and its president have denied the allegations of genocide and harassment.

Trump shows photos as he meets South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC, May 21, 2025. Ramaphosa met Trump in the midst of the resettleston resettle of white Afrikaners who, according to Trump, are the victims of “genocide”. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)

The president of South Africa is based on Trump’s request to arrest the politician who chanted “ killing the farmer ”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already boycotted a meeting of G20 foreign ministers in South Africa earlier this year concerning the controversial policy of the government’s crisis.

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Trump administrations and former Biden administrations also criticized South Africa after the nation accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and brought a case to the International Court of Justice.

Greg Norman of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.