Donald Trump has postponed the G7 summit until after the summer and pledged to invite Russia and several other nations to expand the membership beyond what he called a “very outdated” arrangement.
The US president had hoped to host the leaders of the G7 nations — Germany, France, Canada, Japan, Italy and the UK — at the White House next month. But he postponed the annual forum after German Chancellor Angela Merkel declined to attend the event in person.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned from the launch of the SpaceX rocket in Florida, Mr Trump said the G7 forum was not representative of what was “going on in the world” today.