Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly ended a press exchange as President Trump prepared to depart for the G7 summit. The interruption came as reporters pressed the president on topics ranging from Russia’s G8 exclusion to escalating tensions in the Middle East and recent U.S. immigration enforcement actions.
Carney, serving as this year’s G7 chair, cited the need to move forward with summit proceedings and instructed the press to reserve questions for later sessions. President Trump had already responded briefly to several inquiries, calling Russia’s past expulsion a “strategic error” and defending recent immigration crackdowns as essential to national security.
Despite the early end to the exchange, Trump confirmed that a more formal press briefing would follow the summit’s initial meetings.