Furious World Leaders Lock Out Trump from Closing Ceremony

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Speaker 7 What you saw right there are attendees of the G20 summit in South Africa celebrating a very successful summit.

Speaker 7 Also celebrating the fact that South Africa and world leaders locked the United United States out of the G20 closing ceremony.

Speaker 7 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 Ramafosa, would hand over the gavel to the next year leader of the G20, which is the United States.

Speaker 7 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 essentially boycotted the G20.

Speaker 7 The United States lied and claimed that there was a white genocide taking place in South Africa.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 And these types of meetings support international cooperation.

Speaker 7 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 Rama Fosa, hand over the gavel, signifying unity and transition and stability to Donald Trump, but Trump wasn't there.

Speaker 7 So the U.S. wanted to send a junior attaché, a junior State Department official, someone not at the, you know, leader of a state level.
And South Africa's like, no, you didn't show up.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 They call it Dirk, their International Affairs Office. Show up at a later time.
There's not going to be cameras.

Speaker 7 We'll hand you over the paperwork, but you're not sending some junior person to take the gavel.

Speaker 7 And instead, instead, you had Rama Fosa, 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.

Speaker 7 They embraced, there was no Trump, no United States. The U.S.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 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 Rama Fosa.

Speaker 7 Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 That this gavel,

Speaker 10 this gavel

Speaker 9 of this G20 summit,

Speaker 9 formally closes

Speaker 9 this summit and now moves on

Speaker 9 to the next president of the G twenty,

Speaker 9 which is the United States, where we shall see each other again next year. The summit is therefore close.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 7 They were roasting the United States and how Trump has weakened the United States. on the international scene.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 11 Why isn't Donald Trump coming tomorrow? Because he has a four-year-old mentality and

Speaker 11 he's having a tantrum.

Speaker 11 He's having a tantrum.

Speaker 11 What is the tantrum

Speaker 11 that the rest of the world says, we don't want a king.

Speaker 11 As President Lula said, we don't need an emperor.

Speaker 11 He would come here as just one of 20 leaders or 21.

Speaker 11 He doesn't want that. He's having a tantrum.

Speaker 11 So this rebalancing is happening.

Speaker 11 He's having a particular tantrum, by the way.

Speaker 11 because the United States is in a deeply neurotic funk.

Speaker 11 You know what the cause of that neurosis is?

Speaker 11 China.

Speaker 11 A wonderful,

Speaker 11 brilliant civilization,

Speaker 11 4,000 years old, plus

Speaker 11 it's been a unified state with brilliant statecraft

Speaker 11 for more than 2,000 years.

Speaker 7 Then in this speech, Sachs also accused Trump of sending the CIA to blow up an oil refinery in Venezuela that in the past 24 hours blew up.

Speaker 7 And Sachs says, look, I can't prove it was the CIA, but seems likely what went down. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 11 Today, a major refinery in Venezuela suddenly exploded.

Speaker 11 That seems a lot like the CIA to me.

Speaker 11 I don't guarantee it. We don't have any more news, but last week, President Trump said he had assigned the CIA to operations inside Venezuela, and a week later, suddenly the biggest refinery blows up.

Speaker 11 So the United States can hardly go a week at a time without trying to kill somebody.

Speaker 11 But China actually goes centuries

Speaker 11 without attacking its neighbors.

Speaker 7 And then more from Jeffrey Sachs right here. Here, let's play this clip.

Speaker 11 I always emphasize geography in thinking about economics.

Speaker 11 So the geography is that at Pennsylvania Avenue, which is where the White House is, now there's a West Wing and no East Wing because he knocked it down a couple weeks ago, this idiot. Excuse me.

Speaker 11 Sorry, it's true. I'm just being technical.

Speaker 11 At 16th in Pennsylvania is the White House. 15th in Pennsylvania is the Treasury Building.
17th in Pennsylvania is what's called the Executive Office of the President of the U.S.

Speaker 11 18th in Pennsylvania is the World Bank. And 19th in Pennsylvania is the International Monetary Fund.

Speaker 11 So it's only two blocks from the President's office to tell the IMF what to do. You don't even need to text it.
It takes 30 seconds to walk across the street to say, veto that country's program.

Speaker 11 And that's still power, but it's power that is fading.

Speaker 11 It's fading in part because of the BRICS,

Speaker 11 because the BRICS are saying, We don't need to be under the thumb

Speaker 11 of a U.S. empire.
That's what President Lula said when he was hosting the BRICS this summer.

Speaker 11 And Trump put on a tariff on Brazil because he didn't like a court proceeding against the preceding president who had tried to make a coup.

Speaker 11 And so he put on a penalty tariff and President Lula said, we don't need an emperor. And we're not going to succumb to this kind of pressure.

Speaker 11 So, the BRICS, of which you are an esteemed member, the S in BRICS,

Speaker 11 remember the 10 BRICS countries:

Speaker 11 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and now Egypt and Ethiopia,

Speaker 11 United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Indonesia. The 10 BRICS countries

Speaker 11 have 46%

Speaker 11 of the world population, thank you,

Speaker 11 and

Speaker 11 41%

Speaker 11 of the world GDP.

Speaker 11 And they can look at the G7 and say, who are you?

Speaker 11 And that's what they're doing. So this is the new phase

Speaker 11 of geopolitics.

Speaker 7 Now, we're hearing from South Africa officials who basically said, Look, if at the end of the day Trump wanted to show up, or if he sent somebody like Secretary of State Rubio, somebody at that level, okay, we'll pass the gavel.

Speaker 7 They could participate in the closing ceremony, but they boycotted the G20. They refused to show.
So, no, we're not going to allow them to participate in the ceremony.

Speaker 13 I want you to watch right here how it's day two of the G20 summit in Johannesburg, and here it is the US being locked out of the closing ceremony play this clip and now it's the second and final day there has to be a handover that must happen and from what we've heard from the presidency it's not going to happen if there's a junior official in the room I'm not aware if there's been any changes are you able to update us what to expect

Speaker 14 so every delegate coming here was registered there was pre-registration and registration closed so those who are not in the room have not have not registered because they chose not to register but secondly we have indicated that when we're told remember we are a country things get planned when we're told that we are not going to participate we are not going to be there nobody's going to be there we had to make alternative arrangements and the arrangements of today is that we have a closing ceremony and we don't have a handover ceremony the handover ceremony as articulated by the minister of international relations will take place in line with what the united states have communicated the ashager will receive the handover from South Africa and an equivalent a level an equivalent level official at DECO will then hand over to them.

Speaker 14 You can't have a president handing over to an official and they are not here. They didn't register to be here.
They didn't get accredited to be here because they didn't come on time to be here.

Speaker 7 And here's another clip right here of another government official saying, look, if they want to come to the DERCO,

Speaker 7 the DIRCO, like the International Affairs Office, you could show up. You could knock United States, but you're not going to get some forum here in the gavel ceremony.
You didn't show up. Too bad.

Speaker 7 So sad. See See you later.
You don't get to send anybody here. Play this clip.

Speaker 10 We did not deny anyone access. The United States is a member of

Speaker 10 the G20. And if they want to be represented, they can still send anyone at the right level.
It's the leader's summit.

Speaker 10 The right level is head of state. It's a special envoy appointed by the president of that country.
It could also be a minister. And we've always been open.
So we have not denied

Speaker 10 What we have said, because

Speaker 10 it's an officials' level in terms of that issue, is that DERCO accepts the fact that the US is going to be taking over this platform of the G20, and we welcome that they want to take it over.

Speaker 10 They can come at our offices, and the right-level officials will hand over the G20 to the American officials. So, no,

Speaker 10 no, they are allowed to participate, and so it's up to them. But the issue of handover,

Speaker 10 the issue of handover, the president of the Republic of South Africa will not be handing over to the charge the affair from the U.S. We will be handing over to the U.S.

Speaker 10 in the DERCO offices or anywhere they may want us to arrange within the borders of the Republic of South Africa.

Speaker 7 Now, what's been interesting about this entire ceremony is how unified the rest of the world leaders were at the G20, which essentially became the G19 without Trump there.

Speaker 7 And all the world leaders were saying without Trump, without the United States, there was less drama.

Speaker 7 They were able to focus on important things like multilateralism, climate change, dealing with rethinking international finance structures, which often keep lots of developing countries in significant debt.

Speaker 7 And they're focused more on debt servicing than actually development.

Speaker 7 And you heard Professor Sachs reference the proximity of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to the White House right off of Pennsylvania Avenue there as well.

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Speaker 7 And so let me show you also what went down here because this is pretty unique.

Speaker 7 So normally the G20 adopts its declaration of purpose at the end of the two-day summit, and then they read this declaration. But this time,

Speaker 7 without Trump and without the U.S. there, the G19, which is what it's become, they were able to do a declaration at the opening ceremony.

Speaker 7 So the opening ceremony, they all agreed, here are the things we're focused on. Multilateralism, international cooperation, growth,

Speaker 7 figuring out resiliency.

Speaker 7 And then you'll see over here, Rama Fosa delivering the opening ceremony statement by issuing the declaration right from the outset.

Speaker 7 That never happens, but the message was being sent to Trump and the Trump regime. We don't need you here.
Look how quick we could get things done without you. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 9 This G20 leader summit has a responsibility not to allow the integrity and the the credibility of the G20 to be weakened. In fact,

Speaker 9 from this

Speaker 9 summit, we should have a sense that the G20 has been strengthened.

Speaker 9 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.

Speaker 9 The G20 G20 underscores the value of relevance,

Speaker 9 of the relevance of multilateralism.

Speaker 9 It recognizes that the challenges that we face can only be resolved through cooperation, collaboration, and partnership.

Speaker 9 The adoption of the declaration

Speaker 9 from the summit sends an important signal to the world that multilateralism can and does deliver.

Speaker 9 It sends a message of hope and solidarity across the world.

Speaker 9 It tells the world that as the leaders of the G20,

Speaker 9 we will keep fast to our solemn pledge to leave no person,

Speaker 9 no community,

Speaker 9 and no country

Speaker 7 behind.

Speaker 7 And by the way, you saw the world leaders. Here are photos of them together.
The family photo of all the G20, or I should say the G19. Look at them.
They're all smiles.

Speaker 7 I mean, you've got, here's photos of Kearney and Modi and Al-Banisi. And you see these other world leaders right there.
They're happy. They're cooperative.
They're working together. Sans,

Speaker 7 no United States being there. I want to highlight, though, as well, what the gavel ceremony was supposed to look like, just so you have a frame of reference.

Speaker 7 So when the gavel was handed over from Modi, the leader of India, prime minister of India, to Lula, the president of Brazil, here's what that gavel ceremony looked like back in 2023. Play this clip.

Speaker 7 And if you want to see what it looked like when we had a normal president who would give speeches at the G20, unlike Trump, who was so scared to show up.

Speaker 7 Here is what former President Biden's speech at the G20 was when India, when Modi was leading the G20 back in 2023, here play this clip.

Speaker 15 I want to thank you, Mr. Prime Minister.
One earth, one family, one future. That's the focus of this G20 summit.
And in many ways, it's also the focus of this partnership that

Speaker 15 we're talking about today. Building sustainable, resilient infrastructure making quality infrastructure investments and uh creating a better future a future of a greater that

Speaker 15 presents greater opportunity dignity and prosperity for everyone last year we came together as one to commit to this vision and uh this afternoon i want to highlight the key ways in which the united states and our partners are working to make this a reality

Speaker 7 now let me share with you this This is President Lula's speech attacking Trump.

Speaker 7 This was Lula's speech from this G20, let me be clear, and talking about how this attack on multilateralism, this attack on the G20, this attack on developing countries, this attack on

Speaker 7 addressing climate change is so deeply problematic. Here, play this clip.

Speaker 17 We have embarked on a path that repeated the recipe of austerity as an end in itself, which deepened inequalities and expanded tensions of authority.

Speaker 17 Now, protectionism and unilateralism re-emerge as a response to facts and fallacies in the face of the complexity of the current reality, and their effects exacerbate the problems we face.

Speaker 17 The very functioning of the G20 as a forum for dialogue and coordination is under threat. It is necessary to preserve the capacity of this forum to address the major issues of today.

Speaker 17 If we are not able to find the way within the G20, it will not be possible to do so in a world in conflict.

Speaker 17 The historic social and economic problems of latin america and the caribbean will not be solved through the threat of the use of force without attending to all developing countries it will not be possible to restore global balance or ensure sustainable prosperity in the long term there is a negative flow of capital from the countries of the south to the rich countries of the global north The debt problem of the countries of the global south is ethically unacceptable and economically unsustainable.

Speaker 17 Almost half of the world population lives in countries that spend more on debt service than on health or education.

Speaker 17 We are now entering a new stage that will require a simultaneous effort on two fronts, accelerating actions to address climate change and preparing for a new climate reality.

Speaker 17 The G20 plays a central role in both. The group is responsible for 77% of global emissions, and it is from the G20 that a new economic model must emerge.

Speaker 17 The group is a key actor in developing a roadmap to move the world away from fossil fuels. Climate change is not simply an environmental policy issue.

Speaker 17 It is, above all, a challenge of economic planning. Priorities are inverted.

Speaker 17 It is inconceivable that we are unable to mobilize $1.3 trillion in climate financing, while twice that amount is consumed in military spending.

Speaker 7 And again, one of the things that we are seeing, and Brazil obviously plays a big role in this because they're the B in bricks.

Speaker 7 Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, then Egypt and other countries have joined as well. Ten other countries have joined, pooling their economic power together.

Speaker 7 And we've seen an acceleration of that is as the United States has pulled away from its role as a leader in the world, as you heard Professor Sachs says, based on this neuroses and this kind of odd Trumpian-like behavior.

Speaker 7 Other nations are asserting themselves in different ways.

Speaker 7 And people are looking for, I think most importantly now, reliability, reliable allies, reliable trading trading partners, and people who don't use the multilateral trading system as a means of exploiting each other.

Speaker 7 This is interesting, you know, to hear the Prime Minister of Singapore, very accomplished guy who also happens to be their finance minister as well. Here's his speech right here, very powerful.

Speaker 7 And you'll see he talks about this developing new world order. Play this clip.

Speaker 18 For decades, the rules-based multilateral system anchored by the WTO provided this stability. But the system is now under severe strain.

Speaker 18 One reason is that the system has been optimized for efficiency in a different era, and it has not caught up with the realities of today's world, realities like digital trade, as well as the fact that interdependencies are increasingly being seen as vulnerabilities and are open to being weaponized or used as leverage in moments of dispute.

Speaker 18 Understandably, countries are taking actions to protect themselves and to prioritize resilience and security. Yet, if every nation goes its own way, the global system will unravel even more quickly.

Speaker 18 And when that happens, everyone will be worse off. And the heaviest burden will fall on the developing nations.

Speaker 18 So, we do need to reform and update the global system to ensure it addresses the strategic realities of our time.

Speaker 18 First, we must recommit to the core foundations which remain relevant today, and that means upholding international law and the norms and practices that guide state behavior.

Speaker 18 That is critical to continued peace and stability in the world.

Speaker 18 Second, we must reform the current system, be it the WTO or other global institutions. We cannot be paralyzed by old ways of doing things.

Speaker 18 We all have to get behind the urgent reforms that are needed in the WTO so that it becomes more effective and outcome-oriented.

Speaker 18 We should complement the WTO with flexible multilateral approaches.

Speaker 18 And that's why Singapore supports minilaterals and plurilaterals, which can serve as important pathfinders towards updating global rules.

Speaker 18 Third, we should build new partnerships.

Speaker 18 And as several colleagues have talked about just now, we are making progress with partnerships and dialogues between the CPTPP and ASEAN, as well as the CPTPP and the EU.

Speaker 18 In fact, two days ago, ministers came together and had a very productive trade and investment dialogue covering issues like trade and investment facilitation, digital trade and supply chain resilience.

Speaker 18 In the same regard, we should look at ways in which we can bring the free trade areas and the free trade blocs in Africa closer with Southeast Asia and ASEAN.

Speaker 18 Recently, Singapore also joined with other countries like New Zealand, Switzerland and the UAE to launch a new framework called the Future of Investment and Trade Partnership that brings together small and medium-sized economies to keep up the momentum of trade liberalization.

Speaker 18 All of these efforts can form the foundations of a more resilient and secure multilateral trading system.

Speaker 18 To be clear, building a new global economic architecture will require significant effort and considerable political will.

Speaker 18 Multiple efforts are already underway, as I described just now.

Speaker 18 The G20 can and should play a key leadership role in coordinating these efforts, and Singapore stands ready to do our part and work with all members towards this objective. Thank you, Chair.

Speaker 18 Thank you.

Speaker 12 Thank you, Prime Minister Wong.

Speaker 7 And always, Prime Minister Carney delivers a great speech. That's a given.

Speaker 7 And here, Prime Minister Carney leans in on the issue of resiliency, of multilateralism, of addressing climate change as a moral and economic and ethical imperative.

Speaker 7 And it just, as

Speaker 7 an American, to see these world leaders who are so well-spoken, who are professional, who behave this way, it's like, can we get back to that, please?

Speaker 7 Can we get one of those here in the United States of America? Here's Prime Minister Cardi here play this clip.

Speaker 12 Thank you, Chair. I will try to follow the Australian example.
Let me start. This session is on resilience.

Speaker 12 And I want to join others who pointed out in the first session the fragility of armed conflict, condemning Russia's illegal, unjustified, and barbaric invasion of Ukraine, the appalling conflict in Sudan, and our support for all efforts that can lead to just and lasting peace.

Speaker 12 Now let me speak to climate change. It's been over a decade that we've realized that past is not prologue with respect to climate change.

Speaker 12 In other words, the tail risks of yesterday become the central scenarios

Speaker 12 of today.

Speaker 12 Tipping points are now being realized. And I want to give an example.
Two years ago, the forest fires in Canada alone made Canada the fourth largest emitter of carbon in the world.

Speaker 12 We have the example of the Darwin cyclone. Last year, or this year, forest fire damaged

Speaker 12 forests bigger than Sierra Leone, to give orders of magnitude.

Speaker 12 So we need action on all levels: mitigation, adaptation, and resilience. International collaboration is crucial.

Speaker 12 I want to thank our hosts, South Africa, Mexico, and others, who sent firefighters to Canada to help fight the fires. Coordination through early warning systems.

Speaker 12 The wildfire satellite system that we're putting in place as part of the G7 global public good, the work of the G20 in disaster risk reduction. Nature, nature-based solutions.

Speaker 12 We're working towards our 30-30 commitment

Speaker 12 under the Montreal-Kunming Protocol. I want to support the tropical forest financing facility of Brazil's COP, as well as the broader effort and congratulate them on that.

Speaker 12 In terms of our own mitigation, I'll just frame it as follows. We view addressing climate change as a moral duty, but also a commercial imperative, as Prime Minister Albanese just intimated.

Speaker 12 So our strategy on reducing emissions is a climate competitiveness strategy because it will make our businesses stronger.

Speaker 7 Well, I hope this gave you an interesting international perspective of what's going on, because I think a lot of this doesn't get covered enough here in the United States and, frankly, elsewhere.

Speaker 7 So devoting... this amount of attention to the G20 and the speeches, I think, is something very, very important to do.
And you can go back and watch the video I made yesterday because I thought the

Speaker 7 prime minister the leader of Finland gave an incredible speech as well so go back and and take a look there thanks for watching hit subscribe let's get to six million we so appreciate you so much you hit subscribe right now hey Midas Mighty it's Ben Bretton Jordy and we just wanted to thank you for being the backbone of this movement.

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