World Leaders Deliver Fatal Blow to Absent Trump at G20
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Why did Donald Trump boycott the G20 summit in South Africa?
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Fortum. Furious world leaders at the G20 in South Africa made a powerful statement against the United States boycott of the G20, which is being held in South Africa. The Trump regime is boycotting the G20 in South Africa because Donald Trump has fabricated that there is a white genocide taking place in South Africa. So he says the United States is out, to which the world leaders in the G20, or should I call it the G19, they're like, great. We don't want you here. When you're here, we have to deal with your drama, your baby behavior, and all of the baggage that comes with you. And you're like an asset for Putin. Why the hell would we want you here? So the G 19, no longer the G 20, they did something unprecedented.
So they gave their United declaration of the G 20 or now the G 19 immediately. right when the conference starts, they did it. Now that never happens. What they normally do is you wait until the end of the conference, and then there's a lot of negotiation going back and forth about what the declaration is, the joint statement coming out of the G20 would be. Not this time. So Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, He, on behalf of the United G19 minus the United States, says, here are our values. Multilateralism can and does deliver. And Donald Trump's whole position is being anti-multilateralism. Trump's whole thing is go it alone. So the G20, now the G19, immediately said, we stand together, we support each other, we support multilateralism, we don't need the United States here.
Watch as the president of South Africa, who's hosting the G19, says that.
How did world leaders respond to the United States’ absence at the G20?
Here, play this clip.
This G20 leader summit has a responsibility not to allow the integrity and the credibility of the G20 to be weakened. In fact, from this summit, we should have a sense that the G20 has been strengthened. We thank all delegations that have worked together with us in good faith to produce a worthy G20 outcome document for this historic leaders meeting. The G20 underscores the value of relevance, of the relevance of multilateralism. It recognizes that the challenges that we face can only be resolved through cooperation, collaboration, and partnership. The adoption of the declaration from the summit sends an important signal to the world that multilateralism can and does deliver. It sends a message of hope and solidarity across the world.
It tells the world that as the leaders of the G20, we will keep fast to our solemn pledge to leave no person, no community and no country behind.
And the speeches at this G20 were so powerful and they were all directed at smacking down the Trump regime and the no-show Donald Trump. I'll give you this example. The president of Finland, Alexander Stubb, he gave an incredible speech where he talked about a rules-based order, multilateralism, and how there needs to be cooperation among nations. This was clearly directed at the Trump regime and the chaos that the United States is causing here. Play this clip.
Move on to His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Finland, Alexander Stab.
Thank you very much, Cyril, and thank you for the invitation. You know that Finns are famous for two things. One, they speak very shortly, and two, they love rules. And I hope I will stick to both. It's a great privilege to be here for the first time representing Finland. We've never been at a G20 meeting before, and we really appreciate the invitation. Jonas Støre and I both come from Nordic countries. And we once calculated that the Nordics would be G10. So perhaps I'll speak in that spirit.
What did President Cyril Ramaphosa say about multilateralism after the U.S. boycott?
Cyril, for me, this meeting is very much a symbol of multilateralism. And what you are trying to do here is to bring a group of key countries together that have both demography and economy on their side. And you are doing it at a time when there clearly is a change in the world order, where I believe personally that the nexus of power is moving eastbound and southbound.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did Donald Trump boycott the G20 summit in South Africa?
0:00–2:26
2
How did world leaders respond to the United States’ absence at the G20?
2:26–5:21
3
What did President Cyril Ramaphosa say about multilateralism after the U.S. boycott?
5:21–9:06
4
How did Finland’s President Alexander Stubb use his speech to target the Trump regime?
9:06–13:54
5
What concerns did leaders raise about multilateralism versus multipolarity?
13:54–17:57
6
How is the Ukraine‑Russia conflict being discussed without the United States present?
17:57–21:53
7
Why are Blackwell chips being sent to Saudi Arabia a new controversy in the episode?
21:53–24:48
8
What final conclusions do the hosts draw about Trump’s impact on global diplomacy?
24:48–25:32