Dinner at Versailles, alpine air and an Iran agreement: How Trump made it through the G7 | CNN Politics

For the first time in his two presidencies, Donald Trump attended a Group of 7 summit this week without blowing it up. Sure, he complained when the temperature of the meeting room was too warm. He joked, upon arriving an hour late to one session, that he was his fellow leaders’ boss. The summit’s host, French President Emmanuel Macron, was caught on a hot mic describing an al fresco first-night dinner with Trump as a “difficult discussion.” Yet Trump didn’t leave early, as he did last year in Canada, which was a baseline success for Macron, who had engineered the lakeside summit to ensure the US president stayed for the entire program. And instead of ripping up a joint leaders’ statement upon his departure, as he did after a particularly acrimonious summit in 2018, Trump endorsed surprisingly tough language in a group statement about Russia’s war in Ukraine, vowing “unwavering support” for Kyiv. “This was something very special,” Trump declared when the summit had ended. Perhaps it was the alpine air. Perhaps it was the lingering sense of triumph at having brokered a preliminary deal with Iran, which received undiluted praise from his fellow leaders despite th