Google “Trump G7 Summit” and you’ll find giddy headlines from the mainstreams hoping for a big fail on the the president’s part as he headed off toward Biarritz in south-west France last weekend ~
 
• Will Trump blow up the G7 summit?
• G7 diplomats cringing at weekend with Trump
• Trump at G-7: President denies behind-the-scenes discord
• With Trump behaving bizarrely, a lot could go wrong at the G7 summit
 
The G7, a group of seven nations, U.S., Canada, U.K., France, Italy, Germany and Japan – along with several top E.U. bureaucrats – meet annually to discuss global challenges involving foreign policy, the economy and the environment. The official gathering was held August 24-26 and while there was a good deal of interest in Melania’s attire, not much else seemed to catch the attention of the network news.
 

Now that the event is over you’ll find numerous links to various versions of – Trump Wants to Host Next G7 Summit at His Resort – the Left of course outraged over the mere hint that POTUS might personally profit from such an international gathering of foreign leaders (not realizing he’s trolling them yet again 😀 ).
 

But strangely enough you’ll find very little reportage on the Summit itself and what actually occurred there. As usual with the feckless media, any lack of coverage on something President Trump was involved with, means they couldn’t find a way to spin it against him, so they just ignored it.
 
In contrast, the New York Post was paying attention, and was actually impressed by ~ Trump’s G-7 statesmanship ~

President Trump took French President Emmanuel Macron’s Iran gambit in stride as the G-7 Summit wound to a close — probably because Trump saw that Macron’s real game was pure politics […]
 
Macron, this year’s host, originally wanted the summit to center on climate change and inequality. But those are the very issues killing him with French voters, hence his shift to pretending to try to resurrect the Iran deal on the sidelines.
 
 
Whatever heads-up the French president gave the American one about his invitation to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif, the stunt was never going anywhere: Macron and his allies have already consulted to death with Tehran about ways to salvage the accord, even as Washington has shown it can keep tightening the screws despite the appeasers’ best efforts.

While CNN was peddling their new, ludicrous the-president-is-certifiable narrative (now that the Russian collusion hoax has been exposed), Trump was sounding quite lucid regarding the former Soviet Union. Responding to a question during his Monday press conference ~

“(A) lot of people” felt that having Russia in the room could be better than having Russia outside the room, adding, “There were numerous people during the G7 that felt that way. And we didn’t take a vote or anything but we did discuss it, and my inclination is to say yes, they should be in.”
 
The president then turned to former President Obama, pointing out that Russia’s annexation of Crimea — which predicated the nation’s ejection from what was then the G8 — happened under Obama’s watch.
 
“President Putin outsmarted President Obama and I can understand how President Obama would feel. He wasn’t happy, and they’re not in for that reason,” Trump said. “I’m only thinking about the world and thinking about this country in terms of the G7, whether it’s G7 or G8. I think it would be better to have Russia inside the tent than outside the tent. Do we live either way? Yes, we live either way. Is it politically popular for me to say that? Possibly not. I think a lot of people would agree with me but possibly not.”

 
The anti-Trump media was quick to point out that the president skipped the G7’s climate session (his lack of priorities being, of course, a crime against humanity), but he did manage to evade the Amazon wildfire ambush the progressives had planned ~

European Union bureaucrats use various techniques trying to keep the EU together and keep taxpayer money flowing to Brussels. One of their favorite ploys is to propose big government solutions to huge problems—such as climate change or inequality—that will never be completely eliminated.
 
Such proposals translate into lifetime job security for the bureaucrats and lucrative government contracts for their “woke” corporate cronies. Bureaucrats in the U.S. government do the same thing.
 
In this context, it was no surprise to see French President Emmanuel Macron harp about the fires in the Amazon in the weeks leading up to the G-7. Macron started a bitter personal feud with Brazil’s new right-wing president, Jair Bolsonaro. […]
 
If the issue were really environmental policy, Macron and previous European leaders would have piped up long before now. After all, AccuWeather reports that fires during the dry season in the Amazon basin have been just as bad, or worse, in seven of the last 17 years (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, and 2016).
 
Moreover, The New York Times reports that “most of the fires [in the Brazilian Amazon basin] are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared.”
 
Unfortunately, many of these fires were set by farmers to fertilize their fields. It’s an ancient, primitive, and backward Third World farming technique, to be sure. But it is not the destruction of virgin rain forest […]
 
Trump was right to push back against climate and the other “niche” agenda items (as the White House described them) and insist that the G-7 leaders focus on the big economic policy questions. That necessary and useful discussion to coordinate economic policies at the G-7 took place under the large shadow cast by China.

Overall, the president managed to accomplish a great deal last weekend (none of which the mainstreams bothered to mention) ~ Trump’s Magnificent Performance at G7 on Trade, Non-proliferation and Climate Change ~

Perhaps his finest moment since the second presidential debate of 2016. A trade deal “in principle” with Japan. Openings in talks with both China and Iran. Progress in talks with the EU and the U.K. The hint of normalization of relations with Russia. Hope for the de-nuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
 
Oh, and the possibility that next year the G7 will meet at Trump’s resort in Doral, Florida All of this backed by a strong U.S. economy and a strong U.S. Dollar, versus weakness elsewhere. A vibrant U.S. energy sector. And, growing confidence of re-election.

 
Andrew Stiles at the Washington Free Beacon was quite impressed with Mr. Trump’s Alpha Male body language 😀 ~

President Donald J. Trump asserted an imposing physical dominance over his fellow world leaders at the G7 Summit in France, a Free Beacon analysis has found.
 
Using a number of advanced techniques deployed by elite negotiators, President Trump successfully demonstrated physical supremacy over his so-called peers. According to the analysis, Trump’s unapologetic display of American dominance stands in marked contrast to the supine deference of his predecessor, Barack Obama.

 
As the Daily Signal pointed out (and what the mainstreams refuse to acknowledge), the 2019 G7 was actually a resounding success. Not just for Donald Trump, but for the entire country ~

Trump has reasserted American leadership in the world, most especially by taking on the increasingly aggressive and predatory actions of China under President Xi Jinping that have upended the global trading system […]
 
It’s lonely at the top, as Trump was reminded yet again at another summit. But it’s a fight worth fighting, for America and for the free world.