Macron sharply resumed Trump And threatened with the expulsion of the US from the G7 group: 'No leader will ever rule forever'

If Donald Trump is not interested in "isolation," then the G7 could become the G6, says Emmanuel Macron.

The French president collided with his US counterpart for "unproductive" tariffs and customs and preventing other nations from engaging in Iran.

When journalists asked Macron on Thursday to say whether the problem with Trump is that it "does not care" about whether it will be isolated, Macron expressed an unfriendly tone, reminding media that no president "is eternal."

"The six G7 countries without the United States are bigger together than the US market," said Macron, along with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. "Maybe the US president is not interested in the fact that he will be isolated, but we do not mind even if we need six. "

Macron's comments come in the wake when leaders of the G7 countries are preparing for a trade summit in Canada, which analysts expect to turn into a trade agreement, given Trump's repeated insistence that the US has "the worst trade agreements ever made."

The French leader also fiercely criticized Trump's recent decision to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum from Europe, Canada and Mexico.

"I would like to tell Mr. Trump that the measures taken are counterproductive. We can not participate in a trade war against a friend, "he said, while branding the US move" unilateral and illegal ".

"A commercial war does not save anyone. This will primarily hurt US workers, and the price of raw materials will increase, and the industry will become less competitive "- warned Macron.

Macron has previously tried to achieve a conciliatory tone with Trump, and some have called it "Trump's Whisperer" in the media. Now he continued to say that he would not allow the creation of "world hegemony" and that six other countries, excluding the United States, today represent "true force on the international level".

A hostile public tone follows a phone conversation last week between Macron and Trump, which sources told CNN it was "really bad" and "terrible".

Asked to comment on these reports, Macron compared a telephone conversation with "production of sausage" and quoted the 19th-century Prussian statesman Otto von Bismarck, who said "if people were to explain how they made sausages, they are unlikely to continue eating . "

"That's why I like people seeing the final product, but I'm not convinced that a comment from the chef will help in delivering food or eating," Macron said.

Despite its early hopes, Macron did not have any influence on Trump as some expected. He was forced to watch the president abandon the Klimt agreement in Paris and to succumb to the Iranian nuclear deal that Europe desperately hoped the US would remain a member. Nevertheless, Trump's move to impose customs duties on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico seems like a drop that spilled over the glass.

Maybe it all began during a French state visit to Washington in April, when Trump publicly removed a "little piece of wings" from the French president's department, telling reporters in the room that it was just an attempt to make him "perfect."

• 10 Jun, 2018
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