President Donald Trump said the United States will boycott this month’s G20 summit in Johannesburg, calling it a “total disgrace” and citing widely discredited claims that white South Africans face persecution. He wrote on Truth Social that Afrikaners are being killed and their farms seized, and said no US officials will attend. The White House confirmed the boycott after earlier suggesting Vice-President JD Vance could go. South Africa called the decision regrettable and rejected the allegations as unsubstantiated; a court dismissed similar claims in February.

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