Trump's demands for Russia's readmission cause row

[left-of-center2012]

Donald Trump has fought with his fellow G7 leaders over his demand that Russia be readmitted to the group, rejecting arguments that it should remain an association of liberal democracies, according to diplomats at the summit in Biarritz.

The disagreement led to heated exchanges at a dinner on Saturday night inside the seaside resort’s 19th-century lighthouse. According to diplomatic sources, Trump argued strenuously that Vladimir Putin should be invited back, five years after Russia was ejected from the then G8 for its annexation of Crimea. Trump has been taking his counterparts by surprise with the vehemence of his views on the subject.

Of the other leaders around the table, only Giuseppe Conte, the outgoing Italian prime minister, offered Trump any support, according to this account. Shinzo Abe of Japan was neutral. The rest – the UK’s Boris Johnson, Germany’s Angela Merkel, Canada’s Justin Trudeau, the EU council president, Donald Tusk, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron – pushed back firmly against the suggestion.

“On that point … it became a bit tense to say the least,” a European diplomat said. “Most of the other leaders insisted on this being a family, a club, a community of liberal democracies and for that reason they said you cannot allow President Putin – who does not represent that – back in.” Trump was visibly outraged at their refusal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/25/g7-trumps-demands-for-russias-readmission-causes-row-in-biarritz

[Botany]

1. Can it be any more obvious that Trump is owned by Vlad/Russia?

Impeach his ass in the House and if the republicans in the Senate want to
stand up along side that traitor, let 'em.

[BigmanPigman]

3. He is owned!

The whole world knows it by now.

[Me.]

2. I'm Assuming He Didn't Get His Way Re:USSR

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. He is also completely unused to anyone pushing back at him

about any of the idiotic things he says. Just check the threads saying he asked why we could not use nuclear bombs to destroy hurricanes. Apparently all that was said was that they'd check into it. Not a single person made any attempt to tell him why that's in incredibly bad idea.

He's already a narcissist with little grasp on reality. So when he actually bumps up against reality, such as being told why Russia isn't going to be let back into that little club, he simply doesn't get it that there are other opinions out there.

[Takket]

5. " Trump has been taking his counterparts by surprise"

anyone taken surprise by this has not been paying attention for the last 3 years

[captain queeg]

6. We all knew this was going to happen. Not surprised at all.

[RAB910]

7. It's like Trump owes Putin something

[FloridaBlues]

8. Donny can't get his way. So glad they are opposing.