Trump is leaving early to travel to Singapore to meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on June 12.
LA MALBAIE, Quebec (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Group of
Seven leaders had a bitter exchange over trade tariffs, ratcheting tensions at
a summit that he planned to leave early on Saturday before talks on climate
change and the health of oceans.
The six-plus-one tone of the gathering in Quebec means the
leaders from Canada, Britain, the United States, France, Germany Italy and
Japan are unlikely to issue a joint statement, too sharply divided on trade or
the environment to reach consensus.
In an “extraordinary” exchange between the leaders on Friday,
Trump repeated a list of grievances about U.S. trade, mainly with the European
Union and Canada, a French presidency official told reporters.
“And so began a long litany of recriminations, somewhat bitter
reports that the United States was treated unfairly, that the trading system
was totally unfavorable to the United States, the American economy, American
workers, the middle class,” the official said.
