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Donald Trump takes the haughty seat at G7
Updated On: 11 June, 2018 09:13 AM IST | Quebec City | Agencies
Minutes after release of joint communique approved by G7 leaders, Trump launches Twitter tirade, insulting the host, Canadian PM Trudeau
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Trump (right) with German Chancellor Angela Merkel (centre) surrounded by other G7 leaders. Pic/AFP
The G7 summit ended in farce and a renewed threat of global trade war yesterday as US President Donald Trump abruptly rejected the text of a consensus statement and bitterly insulted the Canadian host.
Just minutes after a joint communique that had been approved by the leaders of the Group of Seven allies was published in Canada's summit host city Quebec, Trump launched a Twitter broadside from aboard Air Force One. The US leader had left the meeting early en route for Singapore and a historic nuclear summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, only to take exception to comments made by Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a news conference back on the ground.
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