Leaders of the G7 nations, from left, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, pose for a portrait at the G7 Summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, in June 2025. Trump will attend this year’s summit in France. File Photo via G7/UPI | License Photo
May 20 (UPI) — President Donald Trump will attend the G7 summit in France in June, an official reported.
The president will talk about artificial intelligence, trade and crime-fighting, a White House official told Axios and The Hill confirmed.
The summit, June 15-17 at Évian-les-Bains, in southeastern France, won’t create any signed deals but his attendance is designed to build consensus on which to base future agreements, the White House said.
The G7 includes the United States, the U.K., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
Whether Trump would attend was in question because of his ongoing anger against members Britain, France and Germany over their hesitation to join in the war with Iran.
French President Emmanuel Macron invited Trump to a post-summit dinner at Versailles in an attempt to entice him to attend, Axios reported. It’s unclear if Trump will attend the dinner.
The official said the president wants to talk about: trade deals that “are mutually beneficial for both investor and recipient nations;” adoption of AI tools developed in the U.S.; reducing China’s hold over critical mineral supply chains; fighting drug smuggling and illegal immigration; and promoting U.S. exports, reducing regulatory barriers and increasing energy production, particularly of fossil fuels.
European countries have consistently declined to help the United States guarantee safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, which has angered Trump.
At a Tuesday meeting of G7 finance ministers in Paris, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pushed the group to create more sanctions to fight “Iranian terrorism” and the “financing that sustains it.”
“Crushing the threat of terrorism compels all of you to step up and join us,” Axios reported Bessent said.
“We call upon all our G7 and indeed all of our allies and the rest of the world to follow the sanctions regime so that we can crack down on the illicit finance that is fueling the Iranian war machine,” Bessent said, “and get this money back to the Iranian people.”
President Donald Trump turns to photographers in the press pool after greeting guests during the Congressional Picnic on the South Lawn of the White House on Tuesday. Photo by Samuel Corum/UPI | License Photo
