Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested President Donald Trump wouldn’t join a meeting of Group of 20 leaders in South Africa later this year, saying the country has been “consistently unaligned” with US policy.
“We chose not to participate in this year’s G-20, hosted by South Africa, either at the foreign ministers level or the presidents level,” Rubio said Tuesday during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “They clearly, on the global stage and in multiple multinational organizations, have consistently been a vote against America’s interests time and again.”