‘An awkward family gathering’: Trump and G7 leaders convene in France amid geopolitical divergences | CNN Politics

For weeks, President Donald Trump and his advisers have looked ahead warily to this week’s Group of Seven summit in France. Overseeing a Middle East war stuck in a dangerous limbo between ceasefire and full-blown conflict, Trump risked arriving to the lakeside resort of Évian-les-Bains without a deal and under scrutiny from some of the world’s most powerful people. Instead, Trump will touch down Monday eager to trumpet the accord he announced over the weekend that appears to end hostilities with Iran for now and, in the president’s telling, reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Trump had wanted to enter the summit of leading industrialized nations in a position of strength and with an agreement in hand, sources say. And after months of conflict and negotiations that drew immense skepticism from his fellow G7 leaders, he’ll now get that — albeit with significant, lingering questions about the specifics of the agreement and the extent to which each side will abide by it. The Iran war had already been expected to dominate discussions this week among the leaders, each of whom was forced to confront higher energy prices as a result of the strait’s prolonged closure. Over the last se