Trump leaving G7 summit early to deal with Middle East crisis, White House says

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U.S. President Donald Trump is leaving the G7 acme successful Alberta aboriginal due to the fact that he's needed backmost successful Washington to code what's going connected successful the Middle East, Karoline Leavitt, the White House property secretary, said successful a societal media station precocious Monday.

U.S. president to permission aft leaders' meal to spell backmost to Washington

John Paul Tasker · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 8:00 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media astatine the G7 summit, successful Kananaskis, Alberta, Monday, June 16, 2025.

That's an evident notation to the warfare betwixt Iran and Israel, which is expanding by the time arsenic Israel ramps up its attacks arsenic portion of a propulsion to destruct the country's atomic programme and hitch retired the elder Iranian officials who pb it.

Leavitt said Trump "had a large time astatine the G7" — helium signed a commercialized pact with the United Kingdom and agreed to effort and scope 1 with Canada wrong 30 days — but helium has to spell aft the leaders' meal this evening.

Trump's departure means helium volition miss the 2nd time of the G7 program, including the sojourn by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump was acceptable to conscionable with Zelenskyy and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for bilateral meetings connected the sidelines of the summit.

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