The problem is that Trump thinks about cardboard box delivery by Jeff Bezos when told Amazon forests are burning.
Because Trump could only want other national leaders to “act like him”.
Reuters reports that President Trump—rather than trying to smooth out any of the countless feuds he’s started or stitch up the holes he’s punched in the liberal world order—intends to tell the other nations in attendance to behave more like how the United States has under his stewardship. Presumably, he will ignore the disastrous effect his tariffs have had on America and the fact that many predict a recession is right around the corner.
The president is slated to hold individual meetings with the other G7 meetings, according to senior administration officials who spoke to Reuters. Trump intends to boast about how the American economy has fared under his administration and focus on his tax cuts and deregulation. Again, presumably, he will omit the negative realities, like the fact that he has skyrocketed the deficit and his deregulation measures are accelerating the world towards a climate catastrophe.
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- It will be the first time since meetings began in 1975 that the forum has failed to end a summit without an agreed statement, laying bare the deepening rift between heads of state from seven of the world’s largest economies.
- Alongside environment and trade, analysts expect Brexit, inequality, the possible reinstatement of Russia and universal taxation on digital giants to dominate proceedings.
- Last year, at the G-7 summit in Ottawa, Canada, Trump threw typically stage-managed proceedings into disarray.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the G-7 meeting at a news conference in Paris on Wednesday, Macron said an attempt to produce a joint communique would most likely be a “pointless” exercise.
He referenced President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from a landmark climate agreement restricting global efforts to cut carbon as one example of why it would be difficult to display a united front.
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