Furious World Leaders Lock Out Trump from Closing Ceremony
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Where are we going? What do you mean, what do you mean? What do you mean, what do you mean?
What you saw right there are attendees of the G20 Summit in South Africa celebrating a very successful summit, also celebrating the fact that South Africa and world leaders locked the United States out of the G20 closing ceremony. Now, normally, What takes place at the G20 closing ceremony is that the current president of the G20, the leader in this case, who happens to be the president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, would hand over the gavel to the next year leader of the G20, which is the United States. And that's been planned for some time. So that would have been Donald Trump. But Donald Trump did not show up to the G20. The United States already essentially boycotted the G20. The United States lied and claimed that there was a white genocide taking place in South Africa.
So the very first time that the G20 was held in the African continent, the United States refused to show up and threw a tantrum blaming a fake white genocide as the reason the United States refused to show up. One of the real reasons that Trump refused to show up is that he's scared of these types of forums because he looks so utterly pathetic and he has such a distaste for multilateralism and these types of meetings support international cooperation. And so what was supposed to take place here is that you were going to have the president of South Africa who's leading right now the G20 Ramaphosa hand over the gavel signifying unity and transition and stability to Donald Trump, but Trump wasn't there.
So the U.S. wanted to send a junior attache, a junior State Department official, someone not at the leader of a state level, and South Africa's like, no, You didn't show up. We're not having anybody from the United States participate in the gavel ceremony. If you want, you can show up at basically the equivalent of the State Department in South Africa. They call it DIRC, their International Affairs Office. Show up at a later time. There's not going to be cameras. We'll hand you over the paperwork, but you're not sending some junior person to take the gavel. And instead, you had Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, hold the gavel and then give a hug to President Lula of Brazil, who hosted the G20 last year, where former President Biden attended.
They embraced it. There was no Trump, no United States. The U.S. was locked out, and you saw everybody basically celebrating and mocking Trump and sadly kind of mocking what Trump has turned the United States into. Watch as the gavel was held up, not passed over like it should have been, and you'll see President Lula of Brazil, he himself had been under attack by Donald Trump, embracing Ramaphosa.
Why were world leaders celebrating at the G20 closing ceremony?
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governor of this G20 summit, formally closes this summit and now moves on to the next president of the G20, which is the United States, where we shall see each other again next year. The summit is therefore closed.
So let's talk about also what was going on while this was happening. In the absence of the United States, basically all these countries and these speakers were just straight up roasting Donald Trump. They were roasting the United States and how Trump has weakened the United States on the international scene. So for example, you had Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs giving a speech at the University of South Africa, an event attended by a lot of these nations and their leaders. And watch him just mock Donald Trump, call out Donald Trump for the tantrum that he had here, play this clip.
Why isn't Donald Trump coming tomorrow? because he has a four-year-old mentality and he's having a tantrum.
He's having a tantrum. What is the tantrum? That the rest of the world says, we don't want a king. As President Lula said, we don't need an emperor. he would come here as just one of 20 leaders or 21. He doesn't want that. He's having a tantrum. So this rebalancing is happening.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–3:38
2
Why were world leaders celebrating at the G20 closing ceremony?
3:38–8:03
3
How did the United States 'boycott' the G20 and why did Trump not attend?
8:03–12:54
4
Why did South Africa refuse a junior U.S. official for the gavel handover?
12:54–23:14
5
What public statements and clips showed leaders mocking Trump at the summit?
23:14–27:58
6
What criticisms did Jeffrey Sachs and others level at U.S. behavior?
27:58–32:09
Speakers
9 identified
Ben Meiselas 12 min
Jeffrey Sachs 4 min
Prime Minister Lawrence Wong 4 min
Cyril Ramaphosa 3 min
Mark Carney 2 min
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva 2 min
South African Government Spokesperson (Unknown) 1 min
Joe Biden (clip) / Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (clip) - Primary clip voice: Lula 1 min
Reporter / Clip Intro (Unknown)
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