President Trump arrives for the official welcome ceremony throughout the G7 Leaders’ Summit on June 16 in Kananaskis, Alberta. Canada is internet hosting this 12 months’s assembly of the world’s seven largest economies.
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CALGARY, Alberta — President Trump is leaving the G7 in Canada early to return to Washington to give attention to the battle within the Center East, the White Home mentioned.
Commerce points had been anticipated to be a serious focus on the summit within the Canadian Rockies. However as an alternative, the Iran-Israel strikes have loomed over the G7 conferences, with leaders discussing a possible joint assertion on the battle.
“I’ve to be again. It is essential,” Trump instructed reporters after posing for the standard ‘household picture’ with the opposite leaders. “You in all probability see what I see,” Trump mentioned. “I’ve to be again as quickly as I can.”
Trump had initially been slated to depart Canada on Tuesday night, however moved up his departure to Monday night time after a working dinner with the G7 leaders, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt mentioned on social media.
President Trump talks to reporters on June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, throughout a ‘household picture with G7 leaders (L-R) Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and European Union Fee President Ursula von der Leyen.
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The announcement got here shortly after Trump posted a dire warning on social media. “Iran ought to have signed the ‘deal’ I instructed them to signal. What a disgrace, and waste of human life,” Trump mentioned. “Everybody ought to instantly evacuate Tehran!”
Earlier within the day, he met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to wrap up particulars on the commerce deal they introduced final month. Trump additionally met with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, they usually mentioned commerce points.
Trump instructed reporters he had been in “fixed contact” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and reiterated that Iran wanted to agree to finish its nuclear program. Requested whether or not he needed to see regime change in Iran, Trump mentioned: “I wish to see no nuclear weapon in Iran, and we’re effectively on our technique to ensuring that occurs.”
Trump instructed reporters that Iran has despatched messages by means of intermediaries that it needs to deescalate the battle with Israel.
“They’d like to speak, however they need to have accomplished that earlier than,” Trump mentioned.
“They should make a deal. And it is painful for each events, however I would say Iran is just not successful this battle, and they need to speak and they need to speak instantly earlier than it is too late,” Trump mentioned.
Stefan Kornelius, a spokesman for the German authorities, instructed reporters touring with Trump that different G7 leaders had been making an attempt to craft a joint assertion on the Center East — however that it might be “as much as the American aspect” to resolve whether or not that assertion would come to fruition.
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