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Appearances Over Time
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So until next time, goodbye.
It seems friendlier definitely now than it has been in the past.
And part of that is because of the Iran negotiations and this tentative agreement memorandum of understanding that Trump and the Iranians have come to terms on.
And that has lightened Trump's mood.
And then so when you see the leaders interacting, it's much more jovial, much more friendly.
Friedrich Merz, the chancellor of Germany.
gave a soccer jersey, a German soccer kit to Trump that had 47, the number that Donald Trump is as president, on the back of it.
So it seems like this is friendlier, even if, obviously, when talk turns to Ukraine, Donald Trump has been a little more dismissive of that than I think the Europeans would hope.
Well, I think the main thing for the Europeans is to try to keep this from creating any sort of rupture.
If you remember back to last year's G7 meetings in Canada, Donald Trump left after the first day.
He cut his time here short.
And that's something that I think all of America's allies don't want to have happen again.
And one of the reasons why Trump has been invited by the French President Macron to a dinner at the Palace of Versailles tomorrow night to try to keep him engaged and interested through the duration of these meetings.
The stakes here are to try to get all of the allies on the same page and get them working together.
And on the big issues like Ukraine and Iran and trade, there have been tensions, but there is hope, I think, at this point to find some sort of a way through.
Trump is a salesman, and he's been selling this Iran deal nonstop since he's been here.
He said he thinks it's a great deal, that people are going to be happy with it.
In a meeting with the Emir of Qatar, he talked it up.
He said that there was going to be no American money sent to Iran.