Emmanuel Macron knows that previous attempts to cajole Donald Trump into better behaviour have been in vain. This time he hopes it will be different
A YEAR ago, at the previous G7 meeting in Canada, a single image captured the mood. It showed Germany’s Angela Merkel leaning imploringly over a table towards a seated Donald Trump, his arms resolutely crossed. Shortly afterwards, the American president walked out, and pulled out of a pre-agreed final communiqué.
Before the summit officially began on August 24th, Mr Trump agreed to an impromptu seafront lunch with Emmanuel Macron, which lasted two hours. As the pair sat down to eat, the American president conceded that he and the French president do occasionally “go at each other a little bit”, but insisted that they had a “special relationship” and “actually have a lot in common”.
The summit host, Mr Macron is painfully aware that his efforts over the past two years to charm and cajole Mr Trump into better behaviour have largely been in vain. He learned this the hard way last year when the American president pulled out of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action —a multinational anti-nuclear proliferation deal signed between Iran and six world powers in 2015—shortly after Mr Macron visited Washington hoping to persuade him otherwise.
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