Remember Trump's Tweet Saying He Was Pulling Out Of The G7 Summit Agreement? US Officials Ignored It
“It's like there's a reality TV president, in his own bubble, thinking he controls stuff. It's like The Truman Show.”
Alberto Nardelli
BuzzFeed News Europe Editor
Reporting From London
Posted on August 2, 2018, at 4:45 p.m. ET
LONDON — Shortly after leaving the G7 Summit in Canada in June, President Donald Trump tweeted to say he had instructed US officials not to endorse a statement he had agreed to just hours earlier with other world leaders. Trump was displeased with something Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said during the summit’s closing press conference, which the president was following on TV from Air Force One.
But almost two months on, those instructions from Trump have never been acted upon, apparently ignored, two sources who were directly involved in the G7 process told BuzzFeed News.
US inaction means Trump effectively endorsed the final statement after all.
Link to tweet
Trump had left the leaders of Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and the UK stunned and bewildered after tweeting that he’d “instructed U.S. Reps” not to endorse the G7 communique, the official name of the joint leaders’ statement that he’d signed up to in Quebec, before flying to Singapore to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
In his tweets, Trump claimed that he was pulling out of the agreement because Trudeau had made "false statements" at his press conference.
Since Trump’s tweet, however, there has been no formal or official follow-up by the US on the president’s demand, the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said.
“The White House and State Dept. are actively ignoring the tweets of the president,” one of the sources said. “It's like there's a reality TV president, in his own bubble, thinking he controls stuff. It's like The Truman Show.”
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