The French president purportedly wants to host an emergency G7 meeting amid an escalating row with the US
US President Donald Trump has shared what he claimed was a private message from his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron.
The text, posted to Trump’s Truth Social account, showed the French leader expressing confusion over US objectives regarding Greenland, offering to host a G7 meeting in Paris with participation by Ukraine, Denmark, Syria, and Russia, and requesting a dinner with the US president.
“I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland,” the note read. “Let us have a dinner together in Paris together [sic] on thursday before you go back to the us,” it added.
The disclosure follows a public clash between Trump and Macron over the US-proposed ‘Gaza Board of Peace’, which France declined to join. The panel, to be chaired by Trump, is intended to oversee the transition in the war-torn Palestinian enclave. Paris said it refused because the board’s charter “extends beyond Gaza and therefore exceeds the scope of the peace plan endorsed by the United Nations.”
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Trump responded by saying “nobody wants” Macron on the council because his presidential term is ending soon and suggested France could be coerced into joining with trade tariffs. The board is set to be formally launched with a charter-signing ceremony on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos later this week.
The annual gathering of global elites is expected to be dominated by the ongoing dispute between the US and Western European nations resisting Trump’s push to acquire Greenland from Denmark. Trump has announced fresh tariffs on eight European NATO countries and suggested they should focus more on the Ukraine conflict instead.
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