G7, Trump and Canada
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President Donald Trump arrived in Washington, D.C., early Tuesday morning after abruptly leaving the G7 summit in Canada to address the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
President Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit in Canada early "so he can attend to many important matters,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday evening. "President Trump had a great day at the G7,
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Six of the Group of Seven leaders were trying, as their summit wraps up, to show the wealthy nations’ club still has the clout to shape world events despite the early departure of U.S.
It only took a few hours of summitry in the Canadian woods on Monday for President Donald Trump to decide he’d rather be elsewhere.
Trump’s stance on Ukraine puts him fundamentally at odds with the other G7 leaders, who are clear that Russia is the aggressor in the war. The U.S. declined to join new sanctions against Russia from other countries, saying, “When I sanction a country, that costs the U.S. a lot of money, a tremendous amount of money.”
There were some awkward moments during their Oval Office meeting in May, when Carney pushed back on Trump’s remarks about making Canada the 51st US state. But in Canada, the PM was praised for how he handled that high-stakes meeting.
While visiting Canada on Monday for a Group of 7 summit, President Donald Trump made wrong assertions about Canada and multiple other topics.