Emmanuel Macron whispers secret to shocked Giorgia Meloni at G7 summit with Donald Trump: Live updates

At a G7 where world leaders are trying to avoid blowups amid global tension, the most emotive reaction so far comes from Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

She was seated next to French President Emmanuel Macron at one of the working sessions.

Macron said something in her ear, and the Italian cast what looked like an epic eye roll.

President Trump put his John Hancock on a ‘legacy’ scroll at the G7. The president used a sharpie of the kind uses to ink executive orders.

A bright sunny day in Kananaskis with temperatures hovering in the low 60s got President Trump to thinking about the military parade in DC Sunday that almost got rained out.

Trump mentioned the parade while chatting with Canadian PM Carney as the pair posed for a photograph.

‘It is perfect, isn’t it?’ said Trump, with mountains and forests around them.

‘We got the parade done the other day. They said 100 percent chance of rain. Didn’t happen,’ he said. Trump moved up his own parade appearance and organizers adjusted the schedule events with thunderstorms in the forecast.

Some observers said the parade fell short of estimates of as many as 200,000, with some bleacher seats sparsely filled. The White House said 250,000 came, while separate estimates say millions nationwide took part in ‘No Kings’ marches that coincided with it.

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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney savagely ended President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth with reporters Monday, as the two leaders kicked off the start of the G7 Summit with a bilateral meeting.

Trump almost immediately was critical of the G7’s decision to drop Russia from what had been the G8 in 2014 and voiced criticism of Carney’s predecessor and fellow liberal, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

‘If you don’t mind, I’m just going to exercise my role, if you will, as G7 chair, since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of these big issues,’ Carney said, ushering reporters out of the meeting room in less than eight minutes.

Body language expert Judi James told the Daily Mail that Trump is coming in ‘hot’ from his military parade and is in ‘fully pumped-up, grandiose global alpha leader here.’

Carney, on the other hand, is showing a ‘range of expression supressions and fleeting emotions while Trump is in full flow.’

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Kananaskis, Alberta

President Trump began his first event at the G7 by revisiting his long-held view that Russia shouldn’t have been kicked out of the group.

‘It used to be the G8. Barack Obama and President Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, and I would say that that was a mistake,’ Trump said.

He said ‘you wouldn’t have a war right now’ if Russia were still in.

The leaders kicked out Moscow following President Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which came six years before Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

‘They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a big mistake, even though I wasn’t in politics at the time,’ Trump said. It comes at a summit where Trump is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having spoken recently with Putin.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Alberta

Several world leaders at the G7 opted to come stag to the annual confab, while some brought spouses to the tranquil wooded retreat in the Rockies.

President Trump is attending without first lady Melania Trump, who joined him at the parade on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army on his 79thbirthday.

Also coming solo was President Emmanuel Macron, who was famously captured on video being pushed by French first lady Brigitte Macron on a trip to Vietnam.

Japanese President Ishida Mitsunari was accompanied by his wife, Kogetsu-in.

Canadian PM Carney introduced a series of world leader guests to his wife, Diana Fox Carney. While greeting German Chancellor Merz and his wife, Charlotte, he thanked her apologetically ‘for enduring our football talk.’

Italian PM Georgia Meloni is single, after dumping her partner in 2023.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Calgary

President Trump didn’t respond to a question about whether he was considering sending more ‘bunker buster’ bombs to Iran.

The president simply mouthed ‘thank you’ to a shouted question following a welcome event at the G7.

Organizers had arranged a photo-up in front of a bubbling fountain and a group logo amidst the greenery of the Kananaskis Mountain Lodge.

Advance officials on the scene tried to tamp down reporters’ questions at the photo-op. German Chancerlor Merz also avoided comment, as did French President Emmanuel Macron when asked by the Daily Mail whether there would be a joint communique coming out of the summit.

A top ally of President Donald Trump praised the Republican for his negotiating abilities at the G7 in Canada.

‘Thank goodness we have President Trump’s strong leadership at the G7,’ Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, posted Monday on X.

‘There’s no better negotiator than him!’

Jordan was a frequent critic of former President Joe Biden and investigated the Democrat’s personal business dealings, including those of Hunter Biden, for years.

President Donald Trump ordered a new blitz on Democrat cities that will see huge numbers of illegal immigrants rounded up for the ‘largest mass deportation in history.’

Trump told the Daily Mail when asked about the sweeping directive at the G7:

‘I want them to focus on the cities… Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country… Most of those people are in the cities. All blue cities. All Democrat-run cities. And they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not gonna happen.’

President Donald Trump told reporters at the G7 Summit that he’s heard from the Iranians, but it may be too late to strike a nuclear deal.

‘They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before. They had 60 days and on the 61st day I said, “we don’t have a deal.”

‘They have to make a deal. It’s painful for both parties.

‘I’d say Iran is not winning this war … and they should talk immediately before it’s too late.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Canada

Donald Trump holds his first meeting of the G7 with host nation Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney – in his first sojourn to the country since saying repeatedly he wants to absorb it into the U.S.

Trump landed in Calgary Sunday night before flying by helicopter to Kananaskis surrounded by the Canadian Rockies.

With Israel’s clash with Iran in the backdrop, Trump attends an official welcome and holds several sessions with gathered world leaders. Trump, who spoke briefly with reporters before leaving D.C. but avoided making news en route, also attends a cultural event.

Then, he attends a cultural event, which gives him the chance to take in some of the local culture of a country he said needs to be the 51st U.S. state.

Trump is also expected to meet with Mexican President Sheinbaum and Ukrainian President Zelensky during the two-day summit.

The last time world leaders gathered in Kananaskis, a bear tried to make its way into the 2002 meeting of the world’s top eight economies and met an untimely end.

This time, members of the G7 are developing strategies to handle a different formidable figure: President Donald Trump.

It will be Trump’s first time setting foot on Canadian soil since saying Canada was ‘meant to be’ the 51st U.S. state and slapping 25 percent tariffs on Canada’s steel.

The two teams battling on the ice at the East Calgary Twin Arenas are checking each other with ferocity – with slots in a successful Canadian youth league on the line in a country where hockey is king.

But in a region that will soon host President Donald Trump and other G7 leaders, hockey parents and other locals are bracing for another face-off – this one involving a volatile U.S. president who vows to make Canada the 51st State.

‘I think if it was reversed, we would probably have a war on our hands, because the Americans would not put up with it,’ said Curtis Reynard, 47, electrical contractor whose 17-year-old son played goalie for the first of two games Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a blunt message to Donald Trump by stopping in Greenland Sunday en route to the G7 – a massive territory the U.S. president says the nation ‘needs.’

Macron stopped in Nuuk, the same city visited by Donald Trump, Jr. and Vice President JD Vance in separate stops that alarmed some locals who favor moves toward independence or continued association with Denmark.