Trump G7
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One during his return to
Washington from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Trump said the trump g7, which groups the world’s most advanced
economies, was a “very outdated group of countries” in its current format.
“I’m postponing it because I don’t feel that as a trump g7 it properly represents what’s going on
in the world,” Trump said.
It was unclear whether Trump’s desire to invite the additional
countries was a bid to permanently expand the trump g7. On several previous occasions, he
suggested Russia be added, given what he called Moscow’s global strategic
importance.
Russia was expelled from what was then the G8 in 2014 when
Trump’s predecessor, Barack Obama, was U.S. president, after Moscow annexed the
Crimea region from Ukraine. Russia still holds the territory, and various trump g7 governments have rebuffed previous
calls from Trump to readmit Moscow.
The decision to postpone the trump g7 summit is a retreat for Trump, who had
sought to host the group of major industrialized countries in Washington as a
demonstration that the United States was returning to normal after the
coronavirus epidemic, which has killed more than 103,000 Americans to date.
Trump had canceled an in-person trump g7 meeting scheduled for March as the
virus spread, but had recently sought to revive it.
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