Hey Trump: Learn something from Mr. Rogers

wnd.com ^ | 6/10/2018 | ellen RATner

[rktman]

This past weekend, President Trump attended the G-7 meeting in Canada. He left early to attend the summit with Kim Jong Un, and it was clear that leaders and members of the G-7 were not happy.

The G-7 has a long history. The group originally had Russia as part of it and was called the G-8. However, Russia was kicked out of the group after it annexed the Crimea and then supported the pro-Russians in Ukraine. Russia was disinvited in 2014.

President Trump said this week that Russia should be part of the G-7. “Whether you like it or not, and it may not be politically correct, but we have a world to run,” Trump said. “And in the G-7, which used be the G-8, they threw Russia out. They should let Russia come back in because we should have Russia at the negotiating table.” He may be right about Russia, but why not China?

Before he left for the summit in Canada, Trump said to reporters that he had been Russia’s “worst nightmare” but argued the country should be part of the economic talks. “With that being said, Russia should be in this meeting,” he said. “Why are we having a meeting without Russia being in the meeting?”

The G-7 is a group of countries that have the leaders meeting once a year. The G-7 is made up of large economies. It was organized in response to the 1973 world oil crisis. Russia formally joined in 1998. In 2017, the world’s four largest economies were: the United States, China, Japan and Germany. The G-7 is supposed to focus on economic and political challenges while the G-20 focuses on important global issues.

[Sacajaweau]

We have the G-20 and Russia is part of that.

This G7 is a clique...the money bags of the world who want the world run THEIR way or nothing.

[Verginius Rufus]

So, right after the meeting started, President Trump should have taken off his suit coat and put on a sweater, and then changed shoes? Is that what Ellen had in mind?