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WASHINGTON – When President Donald Trump went to Chalebois, Canada in 2018, the visit was encapsulated in one photograph for a meeting of the world’s richest countries.
This image shows world leaders facing the US president. The US president sat while standing with his arms crossed.
Trump said he would oppose former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after a group of seven summits and pull the US from the joint statement. The leader was fighting for retaliatory tariffs on important steel and aluminum at the time.
The G7 Summit changes its hands every year. This week it’s Canada’s turn to host again. Canadian leaders have defined the gathering in 2018, indicating they want to avoid the confusion they worked to minimize the department’s appearance.
Trump is often a disruptor at global gatherings, guiding US allies and competitors to adopt policies that are more beneficial to the US. However, the conflict that broke out between Israel and Iran last week over Tehran’s illegal nuclear program could change dynamics in 2025, as it flies to the foothills of the Rockies for the G7 Summit.
The president can use his time at Kananaskis to unite the international colleagues behind Middle Eastern solutions.
“Trump wants to get out of some sort,” said Josh Lipsky, former President Barack Obama’s G7 organizer, who chairs the Atlantic Council’s International Economics program. “That’s what every leader around the table wants, so here’s a path where Trump plays a more traditional role.”
What will happen at the G7 Summit?
Israel and Iran will be on the forefront and centre at the summit after launching additional missile attacks the eve of the event.
The volley was cancelled after a successful focused effort from Trump was carried out after nuclear negotiations between US and Iranian negotiators that were scheduled to take place on June 15th.
He told Tehran in a social media post in an interview with American journalists that the revitalization agreement was the only diplomatic off-ramp.
Overnight he offered to play a mediating role in a conflict that could involve areas already at the edge by fighting between Israel and Hamas.
“It’s easy to make a deal between Iran and Israel and end this bloody conflict!!” Trump said on social social early Sunday morning.
Instead of focusing on global financial and security concerns about China and Russia, missile exchanges in the Middle East will naturally be a major part of the debate, said Kelly Anne Shaw, president of Trump’s economic club, in the second half of his first term.
“There are so many concerns about this explosion that will explode into a much wider regional conflict and what it means for all countries participating in the G7,” she said.
Trump has laid the foundation for creating peace. Prior to the summit, Trump spoke to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about the conflict, while Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who was kicked out of an informal gathering after annexing Crimea in 2014.
“He feels that this war in Israel and Iran should end, just like me, and that war I explained should end,” Trump said of his one-hour conversation with Putin on June 14th.
Russia has helped promote previous contracts to reduce Iran’s uranium programme.
Nodding to how much the battle between Israel and Iran has overturned the regular international order, Trump said he and Putin spent “a lot less time” on a phone conversation about Russian leaders’ attacks on Ukraine.
“That’s next week,” Trump said, referring to the NATO summit in late June, which will link the US and its military allies in the Netherlands.
However, G7 leaders don’t just talk about Iran and Israel. After all, tariffs are one of the main issues that upset Trump and his counterparts during his Second Chance President.
Since 2018, Trump has expanded his tariff regime, and they have been at the heart of his second term. Trade transactions can be found on tables with Canada, the European Union and others.
The president insists that the United States will absorb the hosts of the Summit, the Northern neighbor. Leaders will discuss topics such as artificial intelligence and wildfire management.
How will lectures be given on tariffs and pieces making?
Of the groups attending Canada’s last G7 summit, only Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron are in power. The leaders of the UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy have all been handed over since Trump last took office.
There is no longer a communicature of a typically long, entangled, fierce battle that all countries must agree to. Canada has worked with G7 Nations to come up with a brief action-oriented leadership statement on areas of common interest, a senior US official said.
“Frankly, I think that’s a more practical approach,” praised Shaw, a former Trump aide. “And it really embraces the G7, which is focused on what it is supposed to be doing. This is talking about the most pressing issues of the day, and is trying to find a common foundation and coordinated approach among some of the world’s biggest economies.”
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney encourages the nation to “stay together,” said the US ambassador, in addition to solving the issue in a mutually cooperative way, according to the country’s ambassador.
“It will be his main message to all leaders. We will build a coalition of like-minded countries that share international cooperation, believe in international cooperation, believe in free and open ideas, goods, services, and the exchange of safe, safe and secure technologies together,” she said.
Still, the US president’s tariffs are a challenge for G7 countries. The partial grace he provided most countries and the EU will expire next month. He is in the process of negotiating transactions with several participating countries, including Japan and Canada. He said an agreement was reached with the UK in May.
A senior US official said Trump is eager to pursue his trade goals and take part in a working session with the G7 on immigration and drug smuggling, along with other topics.
Hillman said he would not deny the country feeling the impact of Trump’s tariffs. “These are issues. I’m sure the president is sure he wants to talk to the leader, and the leaders will want to exchange their views,” she said.
But Trump will struggle to play the role of peace superintendent after repeatedly boasting that if he won for the second consecutive term, existing conflict would not have started.
And while tariffs are likely to appear in individual sit-ins, world leaders have already aimed to avoid clashes with Trump, like the ones unfolded in the infamous 2018 photo, Lipsky said.
They have a very clear purpose this time, he added.
“You have one room with the world’s largest advanced democracy leader,” Lipsky said. “And if they can’t adjust any signal to both the Israelites and the Iranians, they won’t be able to do that.”