What’s comical about the timing of the parade flop and subsequent fallout therefrom is that Trump is in Canada right now for the G7 summit. He doesn’t want to be there. He’s not in the mood for more photo ops and this room is particularly difficult to play anyhow, because they’re all serious leaders out to accomplish serious objectives and that’s not an atmosphere that a game show host thrives in. You’re supposed to be informed on the world economy, stuff like that. It’s not a good group to sell bitcoin, too, let’s just put it like that.
They even expect him to arrive on time to breakfast, you believe that? Why that Frenchman, Macron, even laughed in Donald’s face during the first G7 when he showed up late. Hey, this Macron guy doesn’t have a complicated floofy hairdo and makeup job to do every day, okay? And we won’t even talk about the shoe lifts, the leg brace and the goddamn catheter. Sheesh, sometimes Donald feels like Rodney Dangerfield, he gets no respect. What’s up with that?
In addition to Trump showing up having nothing to say, there is the issue of Israel attacking Iran, which the members of the G7 Summit would like to address. But Trump doesn’t want to address it, because he’s still busy trying to explain why the war in Ukraine is still going on five months (almost) after he said it would be long settled. So into this general atmosphere, Gavin Newsom drops this.
God Bless America 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/LCG7VzmHT1
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) June 15, 2025
Everybody is rubbing Donald’s failure in his face, sheesh. No fair. Donald did his best and it’s somebody else’s fault that the parade wasn’t a smash hit and now he’s got nothing to brag to Kim about and even Vladimir isn’t taking his calls. Again. And he’s stuck up here in Alberta and they don’t even have a Trump golf course, you believe that? That means he can’t get a burnt hamberder with his initials branded into the bun. You guys!!! This is cruel and unusual punishment!!
Israel and Iran launched fresh attacks on each other overnight into Sunday, killing scores of people hours before the leaders of the world’s industrialized democracies meet.A G7 official said the leaders plan to issue a joint statement on Iran calling for deescalation.German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters his goals for the summit include for Iran to not develop or possess nuclear weapons, ensuring Israel’s right to defend itself, avoiding escalation of the conflict and creating room for diplomacy. “This issue will be very high on the agenda of the G7 summit,” Merz said. The summit takes place in the mountain resort of Kananaskis, some 90 km (56 miles) west of Calgary.
The last time Canada played host, in 2018, Trump left the summit before denouncing then-Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as “very dishonest and weak” and instructing the U.S. delegation to withdraw its approval of the final communique.–“This will be a successful meeting if Donald Trump doesn’t have an eruption that disrupts the entire gathering. Anything above and beyond that is gravy,” said Roland Paris, an international affairs professor at the University of Ottawa who was a foreign policy adviser to Trudeau.–Trump, who has often mused about annexing Canada, will arrive in Canada at a time when Carney is threatening reprisals if Washington does not lift its import tariffs on steel and aluminum. –
“The best-case scenario … is that there’s no real blow-ups coming out of the back end,” said Josh Lipsky, chair of international economics at the Atlantic Council think tank and a former White House and State Department official.
What does it say about current US diplomacy, when the biggest hope for the next week or so is that the leader of this country doesn’t embarrass the country at an event consisting only of other leaders?
Like he’s repeatedly done in the past.
I have to presume that some sort of diplomatic fix was arranged, so that Trump could even go to Canada: that civilised country has a ban on allowing convicted felons to enter.