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 U.S. 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.”

The White House didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

Vincent Magwenya, a spokesman for South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, said Monday that the U.S. has been “participating at all G-20 related act

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