Donald Trump slammed ‘publicity seeking’ French President Emmanuel Macron for suggesting he left the G7 Summit in Canada to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran.
In a late night post to Truth Social, Trump wrote that Macron was wrong to say that was why he departed.
‘Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a “cease fire” between Israel and Iran,’ Trump wrote.
‘Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!’
The French president seemed to indicate such a deal was on the table when he spoke to reporters at the summit.
‘There is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a cease-fire and to then kick-start broader discussions. We have to see now whether the sides will follow.’
He added optimistically that ‘if the United States can achieve a cease-fire, that’s a very good thing.’
Trump headed back to DC as Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate the middle of Iran’s capital as Israel’s air campaign on Tehran appeared to broaden on the fourth day of an intensifying conflict.
Donald Trump (pictured right) slammed ‘publicity seeking’ French President Emmanuel Macron (pictured left) for suggesting he left the G7 Summit in Canada to negotiate a ceasefire deal between Israel and Iran
Trump headed back to DC as Israel warned hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate the middle of Iran’s capital as Israel’s air campaign on Tehran appeared to broaden on the fourth day of an intensifying conflict
Earlier Monday, Israel’s military issued an evacuation warning to 330,000 people in a part of central Tehran that houses the country’s state TV and police headquarters, as well as three large hospitals, including one owned by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Trump himself seemed to co-sign the warning in a Truth Social post earlier Monday: ‘Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!’
The city, one of the region’s largest, is home to around 9.5 million people.
Israel’s military has issued similar evacuation warnings for civilians in parts of Gaza and Lebanon ahead of strikes.
Shortly after, the White House announced he would depart the G7 Summit in Canada a day early to deal with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.
‘Well, I have to be back, very important,’ he told reporters as he posed for the G7’s family photo Monday evening. ‘I just want to thank our great host, Canada.’
He departed Kananaskis, Canada Monday night and is expected to arrive back in Washington, D.C. early Tuesday morning, with Fox News reporting that Trump had instructed the National Security Council to assemble in the White House’s Situation Room.
‘You probably see what I see and I have to be back as soon as I can,’ Trump continued. ‘I’m going to have dinner with these wonderful leaders and then I get on a plane, I have to be back early.’
Trump has requested for the National Security Council to convene in the situation room, Fox News reports.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told Fox News Monday night that the U.S. military is prepared in the region, though left the door open for the Israeli-Iranian conflict to end diplomatically, as the president has called for.
‘We are postured defensively in the region to be strong in pursuit of a peace deal,’ Hegseth said. ‘We’re vigilant, prepared, and committed to defending our people and our assets.’
Trump’s early exit from the G7 was announced by press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
‘President Trump will return to Washington tonight so he can attend to many important matters,’ Leavitt said.
In an X post she added that Trump ‘had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.’
‘Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State,’ Leavitt said.
That means Trump will miss a planned face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where the war with Russia was to be discussed.
Members of the G7 pose for a ‘family photo.’ From left: European Council President Antonio Costa, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and European Union President Ursula von der Leyen
A fire blazes in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran
President Donald Trump had been meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and then wrote this Truth Social post. He had said at the top of his meeting with Starmer that he still hoped to ink a nuclear deal with Iran
He was also scheduled to have a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, where immigration and trade would have been on the table.
At the end of the day, he was expected to hold a press conference.
‘I wish I could stay for tomorrow, but they understand this, it’s big stuff,’ Trump said at the family photo gathering.
He then joked, ‘Do you have questions for anybody else?’
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney chimed in saying that the leaders ‘had a bit more work to do, so we’ll go do it over dinner.’
‘I’m very grateful for the president’s presence and I fully understand why he must return,’ Carney added.
In his Truth Social post, Trump had pushed again that the Iranian regime should have made a nuclear deal with him.
‘Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again!’ Trump wrote.
Smoke billows for the second day from the Shahran oil depot, northwest of Tehran
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that President Donald Trump was leaving the G7 Summit in Canada early ‘because of what’s going on in the Middle East’
Ahead of sending out the Truth Social post, Trump had been meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
At the top of their meeting, Trump expressed that he believed a Iranian nuclear deal could still be signed.
‘Israel is doing very well, as you probably know. And I gave Iran 60 days, and they said, well, at the 61st you saw what happened. Day 61. So I’m in constant touch. And as I’ve been saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed. And I think Iran is foolish not to sign,’ Trump said.
Asked if he would travel to the Middle East for any peace talks, Trump responded: ‘I think we’re doing pretty well. We’re talking. We have a thing called the telephone.’
He visited the Middle East in mid-May, with state visits to Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
Prior to that, Trump had expressed a similarly positive outlook on getting an Iran nuclear deal worked out.
‘Iran and Israel should make a deal, and will make a deal, just like I got India and Pakistan to make, in that case by using TRADE with the United States to bring reason, cohesion, and sanity into the talks with two excellent leaders who were able to quickly make a decision and STOP!’ he posted to Truth Social Monday morning.
On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started bombing Iran in an attempt to wipe out the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program once and for all.
Iranians looking as a plume of heavy smoke and fire rise from an oil refinery in Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike
A rescuer attempts to remove debris of buildings damaged during Israeli strikes
Heavy traffic builds up as vehicles attempt to leave Tehran
The attacks have continued every night since.
The bombings have killed a number of Iran’s military commanders and scientists involved in the state’s nuclear program.
The Irianians have retaliated, with several rockets hitting Tel Aviv and other populated areas.
Ahead of Israel’s assault, Trump and the Amerians had been working to achieve a fresh nuclear deal, after the Republican pulled out of the Obama-era deal, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in May of 2018.
Trump now says he had given the Iranians a ’60 day ultimatum’ to make a deal, with Israel’s attacks starting on day 61.
A planned meeting in Oman between the Americans and Iranians on Sunday was scrapped.
On Monday, Netanyahu, in an interview with ABC News, refused to rule out assassinating Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, arguing that doing so would ‘end the conflict.’
‘It’s not going to escalate the conflict, it’s going to end the conflict,’ the Israeli leader said.
Thousands are seen trying to flee Tehran, Iran’s capital. On Monday, President Donald Trump delivered a terrifying warning calling on residents to leave, while the IDF also called for evacuations of large parts of the city with a population of about 10 million
The IDF for the first time also ordered evacuation orders covering a large part of Tehran Monday afternoon.
As Trump made his warning on Truth Social, Iranian state meeting was reporting that explosions were being heard in Tehran.
Earlier Monday, Iran’s state broadcaster was bombed while on-air.
Israeli authorities said 24 people have been killed as a result of Iranian missiles including 11 since midnight after attacks in the cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva. Iran says Israeli strikes have killed 224 people
At home, Trump is receiving criticism from some parts of his MAGA coalition, with Tucker Carlson saying the president is ‘complicit’ in Israel’s strikes on Iran.
Asked about Carlson’s comments during his meeting with Starmer, Trump needled the former Fox News host.
‘I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so people listen,’ Trump smarted.
Carlson and a number of other MAGA thought leaders have long distinguished themselves from the Republican neoconservatives, who dragged the United States into the Iraq War during President George W. Bush’s tenure.
He has pushed that Trump should stay true to his ‘America First’ promises of getting and keeping the U.S. out of so-called ‘forever wars,’ as the president pledged on the campaign trail.
Trump also promised voters that he would be the leader to avoid World War III.
