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Trump Says He Will Skip South Africa G20, Cites Claim of Ending Eight Wars

He will send Vice President J.D. Vance in his place, citing objections to South Africa’s role.

Overview

  • He said Vice President J.D. Vance will lead the U.S. delegation to the summit in Johannesburg.
  • Trump argued South Africa should not be in the G20 and described conditions there as a “communist tyranny.”
  • Speaking at a Miami business forum, he claimed to have ended eight armed conflicts and forecast that another will be stopped.
  • He said the United States does not seek war and asserted that the U.S. military is the strongest in the world.
  • He recounted that Vladimir Putin told him Russia had tried for a decade to resolve the Ukraine conflict, as Michael Flynn dated the war’s start to 2014 and analyst Earl Rasmussen said Trump has not resolved the crisis.