A few days before this statement, the American leader criticized Putin and Xi Jinping met in China. Also Trump He instructed the Pentagon to prepare for the restraint of the PRC and the Russian Federation.
However, at a press conference on the “renaming” of the US Department of Defense to the Department of War, Trump said that he would be opened to their participation in the G20 summit.
“I would be glad if they wanted to come. I mean, they can, you know, as observers – they would be observers. But I'm not sure that they want to be only observers. If they want, we can certainly talk,” Trump said.
The head of the White House announced the conduct of the G20 Summit in 2026 in his hotel resort complex Trump National Deral with golf fields in the suburb of Miami.
“I think everyone wants this to happen there, because it is right next to the airport. This is the most convenient location. Everything is beautiful, fine there. Actually, they themselves asked that it would be there because the location is better. And we won’t earn it,” Trump said during the press conference.
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The current Summit of the “Big Twenty” will be held on November 21-22 in Johannesburg. On it, South Africa should transfer to the US chairmanship.
US Secretary of State Macro Rubio said he would not go to Johannesburg due to the fact that South Africa “does very bad things.” Trump also rejected his visit to the summit, but said that this year he will be visited by US Vice President Jay Di Wans.
