We need to cancel the next G7. Let's resume them when Trump is gone

[Soph0571]

Right now, the G7 is not equipped to work towards these goals.

The biggest obstacle is US President Donald Trump, whose policies are antithetical to the goals of the G7 – he wants America to work alone, to destroy the current global trading system, slash foreign assistance that helps address transnational challenges, ignore human rights, and doesn’t believe climate change is real. When Trump attends, chances are high that he causes a diplomatic incident, like he did at the 2018 G7 when he threw a temper tantrum and insulted his Canadian host. The G7 is an annual long weekend of toddler day care for Trump.
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Canceling the next summit is not some ridiculous recommendation – it is a way to cope with the current realities and preserve a semblance of American credibility abroad. Of course, the United States won’t retreat from the world while Trump is president, and all these leaders will continue to deal with Trump. This just isn’t a productive setting now, and the good that is achieved on certain issues at the G7 can be achieved through other means. And if it seems fanciful to imagine Trump cancelling the meeting, just remember that he canceled a trip to Denmark because they wouldn’t sell him Greenland.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/27/cancel-g7-lets-resume-them-when-trump-is-gone|]

It is a compelling argument, but how would Trump graft to make the big bucks next year if it got cancelled????

[blueinredohio]

1. If Trump has the next G7 at his golf club and invites Putin

the other members should cancel. Wait until 2021 and hopefully he won't be there.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. I would love it

If they made a statement such as . . .

We can't have a meeting like this during an election year.

Or if everyone got the *stomach flu* as it started. Then they had to go home. I'll even write their absence notes for them.

[dalton99a]

3. +1

[lagomorph777]

5. Rachel said it might become a G-1 if he holds it at his Emolument Resort.

[JI7]

4. just holding it at one if his shit properties should be enough

to cancel. considering the purpose of these meetings it would go against it to turn it into ways for them to profit.

[lagomorph777]

6. Also enough to impeach. Brazen violation of the Emoluments Clause

[machoneman]

7. Better: make it a G-6, kick us out, embarrass Trump to no end, re-admit with our next.....

Democratic President!

[SharonAnn]

8. That actually makes a lot of sense.