US President Donald Trump has thrown the G7’s efforts to show a united front into disarray after he became angry with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and instructed his representatives NOT to endorse the summit's joint communique.
After all the public feuding and Twitter sniping, the trade disputes and backdoor tensions, the countries of the G7 summit did, in the end, put out a joint communique on the need for free, fair and mutually beneficial trade.
But after watching Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's closing remarks, Donald Trump pulled out of that agreement, tweeting Saturday that he had instructed his representatives not to endorse the communique because of "Justin's false statements" and calling him "weak and dishonest"
At issue, Trudeau defending his country's retaliatory tariffs on the US.