President Donald Trump of the United States will abstain from the upcoming summit of the group of world’s biggest 20 economies also called G20, saying that the event should have been hosted by South Africa.

The US president who has never hidden his indignation at South Africa’s hostility to foreigners made it clear that he would not be in Johannesburg, saying South Africa no longer deserves a place in the group of major economies.

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Speaking at the American Business Forum in Miami on Wednesday, Trump said, “South Africa shouldn’t even be in the G’s anymore, because what’s happened there is bad.”

He added that he would not represent the United States at the meeting, set for November 22–23. Vice President J.D. Vance will attend instead.

Trump has been a vocal critic of South Africa’s land reform policies, accusing the government of targeting white farmers and committing what he called “massive human rights violations.”

Earlier this year, he signed an executive order to cut US aid to South Africa and to support the resettlement of white Afrikaners in the United States, describing them as victims of “unjust racial discrimination.”

Pretoria has rejected the allegations, calling Trump’s statements “factually incorrect” and based on a distorted view of the country’s policies.

Oracle Intelligence reports that there have been regular clashes between South African indigenes and even fellow black African foreigners in cities like Johannesburg. The South African government appears to condone killings of foreigners by local gangs by not bringing them to justice.