Trump to depart G-7 summit early
Source: Politico
President Donald Trump will leave the G-7 summit before its conclusion, the White House announced on Thursday night, following a day of back-and-forth with fellow world leaders that foreshadowed confrontations during the meeting of the world's largest advanced economies.
Trump will be depart the summit in Quebec at 10:30 a.m. Saturday and head directly to Singapore, the site of his June 12 meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement. The G-7 summit is scheduled to wrap up later on Saturday.
Before the announcement, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada both promised to confront Trump over his recent decision to impose tariffs on U.S. allies.
Trump, in response, laid into the two leaders on Thursday evening over those plans.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/07/trump-g7-trudeau-macron-632988
(CNN)President Donald Trump plans to depart from this weekend's Group of 7 summit in Canada several hours early, the White House announced Thursday, punctuating an explosion of acrimony between Trump and his foreign counterparts on the eve of the talks.
The White House said Trump would depart mid-morning on Saturday, skipping sessions on climate change and the environment. An aide will take his place, the White House said.
The announcement came as Trump engaged in a bitter back-and-forth with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over Twitter, both of whom he'll meet face-to-face on Friday.
Trump is expecting a knock-down, drag-out fight with top US allies over trade during his time at the conference, held in remote Quebec. It's a battle he believes he can win, but which he's unenthusiastic about waging in person, people familiar with his thinking say.
BootinUp
(47,165 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)I sincerely doubt the reports that he's been "preparing" for his summits.
Plus, he doesn't care about the climate, so that'd be a big snooze for him.
bitterross
(4,066 posts)As if anyone cares that he is there in the first place.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)NOT wage battle in person?? - Coward!!! Bone spur coward....
RockRaven
(14,972 posts)from the confrontation his bluster has ensured.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,181 posts)it's an omen
SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)dalton99a
(81,515 posts)So typical Trump
Javaman
(62,530 posts)GusBob
(7,286 posts)Grab em by the p-word Macron!
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,828 posts)NBachers
(17,120 posts)SergeStorms
(19,201 posts)What a pompous ass. He still believes he's "the world's greatest negotiator". He's the world's biggest moron, that's for certain.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)He will just make things worse.
And he doesn't want to be lectured.