President Donald Trump, who is spending Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, addressed the shooting of two National Guard members in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the administration continues to conduct negotiations to end the Russia-Ukraine war, with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner expected to travel to Russia and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to talk to the Ukrainians.
In a post on social media late Wednesday, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the “processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols.”
The announcement came shortly after remarks by President Donald Trump regarding the shooting of two National Guard members in D.C. identifying the suspected shooter as an Afghan national who entered the U.S. in 2021.
Trump said the U.S. “must now reexamine every single alien from Afghanistan who has entered our country under (former President Joe) Biden and we must take all necessary measures to ensure the removal of any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.”
Trump says that he will not invite South Africa to participate in next year’s G20 Summit hosted at his Doral golf course and stop all payments and subsidies to the country “effective immediately.”
“At the conclusion of the G20, South Africa refused to hand off the G20 Presidency to a Senior Representative from our U.S. Embassy, who attended the Closing Ceremony. Therefore, at my direction, South Africa will NOT be receiving an invitation to the 2026 G20, which will be hosted in the Great City of Miami, Florida next year,” Trump posted on his social media platform.
“We are going to stop all payments and subsidies to them, effective immediately.”
Trump refused to attend, or send a U.S. official to, the G20 summit this year in South Africa as he continues to amplify claims there have been targeted killings against white Afrikaners in the region.
A spokesperson for the Vice President JD Vance’s office says that Vance and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will meet privately at Fort Campbell on Wednesday afternoon, before Vance serves food to the troops for Thanksgiving. Driscoll will not participate in any of the public portions of Vance’s visit to Kentucky.
Driscoll has been working on negotiations for the administration’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal. Driscoll held secret talks on Monday with a Russian delegation in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates to follow up on this weekend’s talks with Ukraine in Geneva that were intended to move the peace process forward, a U.S. official told ABC News.
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he’s directed Driscoll to meet with the Ukrainians and White House special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
