Trump slamming the G20: 'he tweets' while the Saudi king intervenes and goes to play golf at the height of the summit

The outgoing president of the United States,

, has shown enormous contempt for the G20 summit on the first day dedicated to fighting the pandemic and the economic crisis.

Despite the fact that the Saudi presidency of the meeting accommodated the schedule to, among others, the American, Trump has not stayed long at the summit, which has been held telematically, and has gone to play golf.

According to different chains and agencies, Trump has been seen arriving at his golf club in Virginia at a time when the debates between world leaders in the G20 continued.

Already at the beginning of the meeting, the American has broken any diplomatic norm, because, although he has been seen participating connected from the White House, he has taken the opportunity to send messages from his personal twitter account at the time he was addressing the leaders the Saudi King

, who presides over the event and acts as host.

They were not also messages about the summit, but about the "unprecedented fraud" that, in his opinion, has occurred in the presidential elections in his country and in which his rival

.

In the images offered by the Saudi presidency and while its head of state intervened in the presence of Crown Prince Salman, a good number of leaders, from Russian President

to French

President

Emmanuel Macron, seemed distracted looking at papers or talking to collaborators, but Trump has surpassed them by also being active on twitter.

Before going to his golf club, Trump has made a short intervention before the heads of state and government in which sources cited by France Presse, assure that he has not made international comments and has limited himself to vindicate his, to his judgment, good economic management and in the face of the pandemic in the US.

He has left his post upon leaving the Secretary of the Treasury,

.

Several attendees at the summit, including the president of the European Commission,

, or the president of the Spanish Government,

, have reaffirmed during the debate the importance of multilateralism, which has been damaged by Trump during his tenure in the White House.

Also the Italian Prime Minister,

, who will chair the G20 in 2021.

Vaccines for all

The need for vaccines to reach the entire population, including that of the poorest countries, has been a message shared by the majority at the G20.

"We must avoid a world at two speeds," said French President

.

"A global challenge, which is what the pandemic certainly is, can only be overcome with a global effort. The G20 has a crucial responsibility in this area," said German Chancellor

.

According to the Saudi king, G20 members have already injected $ 11 trillion into their economies and mobilized another $ 21 billion to support global efforts against the pandemic.

According to Von der Leyen, they need to mobilize another 4.5 billion more for the platform set up by the World Health Organization.

Putin has offered the Russian vaccine Sputnik V and Chinese President Xi has assured that he is willing to "strengthen collaboration with other countries in the research, development, production and distribution of vaccines."

Argentine President

warned of the danger of a deterioration of the pandemic in South America and the urgent need for accessible distribution of the vaccine in all countries.

"We see what happens in Europe very carefully.

and therefore we have the opportunity to get that vaccine that immunizes our society in Latin America "

South Korean President

said: "We must work together more closely in solidarity to defeat the coronavirus. I hope the G20 efforts inspire hope in the world."

"INVESTORS ARE NOT JOURNALISTS"

As the host country, Saudi Arabia, European leaders chose not to put on the table the human rights situation in that country and the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

In a previous press conference, the Saudi Investment Minister relativized that criticism about the lack of democracy could affect it.

"Investors are not journalists, they are looking for countries where they can trust an effective government," Minister Khaled al-Faleh replied.

However, the Saudi presidency has surprised European delegations by accepting the principle of gender equality in the conclusions.

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