Frida Ghitis
Long before the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump’s ideas for hosting this year’s summit of the Group of Seven in the United States had created turmoil and controversy. His plans have only gotten more disruptive and divisive in recent days. The meeting of the club of major industrialized nations was supposed to happen on June 10, but the guest list, date and format of the summit are all still undecided. Instead of a showcase for the president and the country, America’s turn to hold the annual gathering of the G-7 has so far turned into another series of failures for Trump.
Trump’s proposals have provoked separate backlashes domestically and internationally, most recently over his push again to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country was expelled from what was then the G-8 after its 2014 invasion of Crimea. Trump first suggested readmitting Putin early on in his presidency, in one of the first storms he triggered among America’s allies. More would follow
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