Little Lord Trump won't be Macron's friend after this

In fact, he may refuse to go to the summit.

Emmanuel Macron has called on other members of the G7 to stand up to Donald Trump’s trade policies in the face of what he described as the threat of a new US “hegemony”.

The French president was speaking alongside the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, who is hosting the G7 summit in Quebec amid sharp disagreements between the US president and the six other leaders of industrialized liberal democracies over trade, climate change and the nuclear deal with Iran.

Macron called on other G7 leaders not to water down a joint communique at the end of the summit, at the expense of shared values, simply in an effort to win Trump’s signature, warning that a “G6 plus one” outcome was possible.

Both Trudeau and Macron emphasised the importance of dialogue and courtesy at the summit, which begins on Friday.

  Guardian

And we all know that Trump can't do dialogue and courtesy.

Trudeau described the tariffs as “unilateral and illegal” and the national security pretext as “risible”.

Surely he knows Trump doesn't know what "risible" means.

Macron was even more emphatic, calling on the other G7 members to resist what he warned was a potential US drift towards “further isolationism and “crude hegemony”.

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“The six other countries of the G7 represent a market which is bigger than the American market,” the French president said. “I believe in cooperation and multilateralism because I will resist hegemony with all my strength. Hegemony is might makes right. Hegemony is the end of the rule of law.”

Yeah, he doesn't know what "hegemony" means, either.

[H]e argued that other countries should be ready to have a “G6 plus one” outcome, sticking to a text that enshrines their common values, even if Trump does not sign it.

“The desire for all seven to sign a text can’t be stronger than our requirements for the contents of that text,” Macron said at a joint press conference with Trudeau in Ottawa on the eve of the summit. “I think we would be making an error if we said we are ready to give up everything, not to talk about the Paris accord or climate, or trade, just to have that signature.”

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“We are all engaged in conflicts in Syria, in Iraq, in the Sahel, in different places in the world. We are allies. Our soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder to defend liberty and our values,” Macron said. “You can’t, among allies in this international context, start a trade war. For me it’s a question of principle.”

Principles: something else Trump doesn't have and apparently has no interest in cultivating.

Macron said the message of other G7 leaders to Trump on the Iran deal should be: “You’re not comfortable with an agreement signed by your predecessor, maybe just because it was signed by your predecessor, but don’t stop others from respecting it and don’t push Iran to leave, because today it’s the best protection we have.”

Yep. He'll be getting the cold shoulder if Trump does go to the G7 meeting.

And a nasty nickname on Twitter.

UPDATE:

He's heard. 

I don't know who he's addressing this tweet to, but if it's to me, my answer is: tell 'em yourself; you'll see them tomorrow.