Trump to boycott G20 in South Africa
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In an awkward moment during a speech in Miami on Wednesday, November 5, Donald Trump mixed up South America and South Africa. During a rant about communism, the president, 79, expressed sympathy for Miami citizens for dealing with an influx of Cuban immigrants who fled to the city to escape the communist Castro regime — but he confused South America with South Africa,
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'I'm not going to represent our country there' — Trump to skip G20 summit, dashing hopes of brokering meeting between Zelensky, Putin
Trump's comments come days after Finnish President Alexander Stubb suggested a possible meeting between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, and the U.S. at the summit.
Donald Trump has again criticised South Africa, saying that the country should not be a member of the G20 anymore, sparking mixed reactions online.
On Tuesday, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa received the G20 Extraordinary Committee Report on Global Inequality from Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, UNAIDS Executive Director Winnie Byanyima, and four other leading global experts of the committee at a ceremony in Cape Town.