Trump: ‘Bad Photos (Implying Anger)’ At G-7 By ‘Fake News Media’ Are ‘WRONG!’

CHARLEVOIX, CANADA - JUNE 9: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberates with US president Donald Trump on the sidelines of the official agenda on... CHARLEVOIX, CANADA - JUNE 9: In this photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel deliberates with US president Donald Trump on the sidelines of the official agenda on the second day of the G7 summit on June 9, 2018 in Charlevoix, Canada. Also pictured are (L-R) Larry Kudlow, director of the US National Economic Council, Theresa May, UK prime minister, Emmanuel Macron, French president, Angela Merkel, Yasutoshi Nishimura, Japanese deputy chief cabinet secretary, Shinzo Abe, Japan prime minister, Kazuyuki Yamazaki, Japanese senior deputy minister for foreign affairs, John Bolton, US national security adviser, and Donald Trump. Canada are hosting the leaders of the UK, Italy, the US, France, Germany and Japan for the two day summit. (Photo by Jesco Denzel /Bundesregierung via Getty Images) MORE LESS

President Donald Trump kicked off his weekend by attempting to dispel the G-7 summit drama last week when he refused to sign a previously agreed-upon joint statement authored by all seven nations.

In a series of photos posted to Twitter Friday evening, Trump insisted that the “Fake News Media” showed “bad photos (implying anger)” at the summit despite his “great relationship” with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other G-7 leaders.

Trump announced in tweets following his early departure from the summit that he would refuse to sign the agreed-upon joint G-7 communiqué as a result comments by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference. However, Trudeau had simply reiterated points he’d made before: that Canada planned dollar-for-dollar retaliatory tariffs in response to Trump’s new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum.

Merkel found Trump’s “withdrawal via Twitter” from the joint G-7 communiqué to be “of course sobering and a little depressing” in an interview following the summit.

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  1. Can’t wait to see the rest of the G-7 back him up on this…oh wait…

  2. Watch what he does
    Not what he says
    If I recall his actions were Fuck You G-7

  3. You caught him!

    (On the other hand, I’m pretty sure he could not care less if they back him up or not. His tweets are aimed at his base, which does not hang on the G7’s every word.)

  4. Implying anger?

    How about implying petulance, implying idiocy, implying immaturity, implying narcissism. How about implying a short fingered, Cheeto colored, hamster haired, ego addicted, Russian-compromised, bigoted man / toddler.

  5. Just like the bad photos implying not-biggest-ever inaugural crowds. Calls not to believe your own lying eyes have been a theme with this administration right from the start.

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