It was just a woman talking
Trump is, of course, making himself as obnoxious as he possibly can at the G7 meeting.
A tardy Donald Trump created a distraction Saturday when he showed up late for a G7 meeting on women’s empowerment.
The U.S. president arrived several minutes after the start of the breakfast meeting between G7 leaders and the gender equality advisory council that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau created for this year’s summit in the Charlevoix region of Quebec.
Hey – the meeting was on women’s empowerment. What’s he going to do, show up on time? Sit down and shut up and listen politely? Don’t be silly! He has nothing but contempt for women, so obviously he’s going to disrupt that meeting by turning up late.
Trump missed Trudeau’s introductory statement at the meeting and entered the room while council co-chair Isabelle Hudon, who is Canada’s ambassador to France, was speaking.
His arrival was impossible to miss as security personnel had to open a path for Trump through a mob of journalists, many of whom were holding large cameras.
Trump stopped at the edge of the room and flashed a big smile in Trudeau’s direction before continuing to his seat.
The rapid-fire clicks of cameras intensified as Trump made his way into the room — to the point that the noise of all the cameras almost drowned out Hudon’s remarks.
Job done. Point made. Woman drowned out by noisy pompous man.
Trump also pitched a fit at his colleagues last night.
Then, on Friday night, Trump essentially acting out his Twitter feed, ranted at his companions about how badly he believes the U.S. is being screwed on trade. Trump’s recent imposition of tariffs on Canada and the European Union on specious “national security” grounds have infuriated Canada and the European Union, who are increasingly realizing that Trump cannot be coaxed or flattered into rationality on that, or any other, issue. The rift between Trump and other leaders has gotten so bad that the group may forego its traditional, end-of-summit statement of joint purposes.
After the meeting, in hastily announced remarks to reporters, Trump contemplated cutting off trade with G7 countries altogether if they didn’t bend to his unreasonable demands, though he said his personal relationships with Angela Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau were all a “10.” He also reiterated his desire to see Russia admitted back into the delegation.
Trump then departed the summit early — missing the climate change portion of events, which he presumably cares about even less than the women’s empowerment breakfast — to jet off for Singapore, where he will sit down with a leader he currently appears to feel more kinship with than any leader of a liberal democracy: Kim Jong-un.
He likes dictators and tyrants; they’re his kind of people; he feels at home with them.
Maybe he only showed up for women’s empowerment because he wanted breakfast.
They were serving hash browns.
But, Chris Tygeson, did he get a double serving of hashbrowns? So that everyone could see that he got more than they did?
He didn’t send Ivanka in his place?
YNnB, don’t be silly. We all saw how the Princess looked at Trudeau when Trump hosted him (in the words of John Oliver, she ‘eye-fucked’ him!) so there’s no way Daddy wants to risk a second meeting between them.