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Trump leaves G7 embarrassed - Iran the excuse [1]
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Date: 2025-06-17
Trump canceled the meetings scheduled with Zelenskyy and Sheinbaum to leave early, telling his national security team to meet in the situation room. The obvious reason is the war between Israel and Iran.
At a G7 presser with Canadian Prime Minister Carney, Trump was going on about ICE needing to increase raids in Democrat run cities. A reporter asked him which cities.
"All Democrat-run cities. And they think they are going to use [illegal immigrants] to vote. It's not gonna happen."
Prime Minister Carney then broke in and stopped the news conference with, "That's it. Thank you. If you don't mind, I'm just exercising my role, as G7 chair." He explained he needed to talk to Trump's team for a couple of minutes and then start the meeting. Trump looked tired and old with puffy eyes.
He was talking with his eyes closed.
Earlier, he talked about going after sanctuary cities and said, "You've got a really bad governor in Chicago." He meant Pritzker and Illinois, but that's not what he said. He gets more easily confused every day.
Even in the G7 group picture, Trump has puffy eyes, looks fat, and his long blue tie looks silly. Everybody else looks happy to be there. He switched later to the red tie. Why?
G7 leaders.
Outside, meeting with reporters, he had a pile of papers with him that he dropped, which was supposedly a trade agreement with the UK.
Trump dropping UK agreement papers. Rumors said the pages were blank, but the closeup shows they weren"t.
In the press briefing with Starmer, Trump said, "You all know the great PM of the U.K., and we just signed a document. We just signed it, and so we have our trade agreement with the EU." Many news agencies jumped on the last part of the statement about how ignorant Trump was, as the UK left the EU five years ago. I don't think it's just ignorance, I think it's another tell-tale sign of cognitive decline.
In between the meeting and the state dinner, which he did attend, he had time to fire off three posts.
"Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"
I turned on Fox News for a minute, and they had a clip from Iran state TV with a lady announcer talking, and then the studio is hit by Israeli bombs. She starts running, and you can see debris flying everywhere.
Then Donald took on MAGA faithful Tucker Carlson, who is positing that the U.S. should not get into the conflict.
It's not only Carlson, Steve Bannon is on the same wavelength. This is the opposite of Fox News Sean Hannity and Mark Levin.
Then, for the third time, he has to say it all in caps.
"IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR BOMB."
The Israelis are doing their best to make sure Iran never does. The U.S. can fly in the 30,000 lb bunker buster bombs to try to take out Iran's underground facilities. Joining the war is not going to make America great again. It just shows that Netanyahu is smarter than Trump and knows how to play him, just like Putin does.
Commentator Bill O'Reilly says he was texted by Trump last night, with Trump saying that he believes Iran's leadership will surrender and will agree to inspections of facilities again instead of facing U.S. action, in addition to Israel's. Surrender to whom, O'Reilly didn't say. Iran's leadership would rather face death than to surrender to Israel.
O'Reilly said that Trump, "doesn't want to use American air power at this point." The inspections "the Mullahs don't want to do that, but President Trump believes that will happen."
Trump got back to Washington at 5am ET, and talked to reporters on the way back. "We're looking for better than a ceasefire...A real end. Not a ceasefire, an end."
ABC News talked to Netanyahu Monday night, who said, "We are going to do what we need to do." When asked if he plans to target Khamenei, he responded, "It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict."
Trump posted twice more on the way back, with aides keeping him informed of what G7 leaders said about him and his abrupt departure. He was obviously annoyed with France's Emmanuel Macron.
"Much bigger than that."
Sounds like war plans with his call to have a meeting in the Situation Room.
Then he did a final post on the plane or in the Beast on the way to the White House. Reports of him reaching out to Iran for a ceasefire are wrong.
2:20am PT is 5:20 am ET in Washington.
"HIGHLY FABRICATED, FAKE NEWS!" If they want to talk, they know how to reach me."
Ayatollah Khamenei has Trump on speed dial now. Most likely going through contacts like Qatar.
Trump is not in good physical shape to deal with the Israel-Iran crisis. His impulsive reactions to events shows his instability.
Trump didn't leave the G7 without some plan already in mind. He could have just let Israel continue and probably take out Khamenei.
We'll find out soon what he's up to.
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