President Trump, growing more isolated amid fears of a global financial downturn, faces a tepid reception as leaders of the world’s economic powers prepare to meet in France.
on the need for tax cuts to stimulate an economy that Trump publicly insists is rocketing.
For the world leaders, it was the latest example of unpredictability from Trump. After two-and-a-half years of Trump’s presidency, traditional American allies have come to expect the unexpected. Increasingly they are looking elsewhere for leadership. The annual G-7 summit has historically been used to highlight common ground among the world’s leading democracies. But in a bid to work around Trump’s impulsiveness,Last year’s summit, hosted by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, ended in acrimony when Trump felt he had been slighted by Trudeau after the president left the meeting.
Addressing the global slowdown isn’t the only pressing challenge that Trump has discovered requires joint action. , the brash pro-Brexit leader whose election he’d backed. Trump has scheduled individual meetings with several of his counterparts, including Macron, Trudeau, Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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