Trump Heads to the G7 After Declaring Peace in the Middle East
Just when everyone thought the world was falling apart, Donald Trump announced a peace deal with Iran, told the world's oil tankers to start their engines, and hopped on a plane to France to brag about it to the G7.
The G7 summit in France was supposed to be a grim, high-stakes meeting about two massive conflicts. Instead, it is turning into a victory lap. Right before packing his bags, Trump and the Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif dropped a bomb: the US and Iran have signed a peace agreement to end their three-month war, complete with a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Naturally, the announcement came with classic internet-era diplomacy. Trump literally took to social media to tell the global shipping fleet to "start your engine" and "let the oil flow," declaring the Strait of Hormuz open for business.
Now he is landing in Evian-les-Bains to explain this sudden plot twist to some very surprised allies. He is scheduled to talk with Middle Eastern leaders and even has a Tuesday meeting on the books with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky—though, in classic diplomatic shade, there is currently no one-on-one chat scheduled between the two.
Ending a war via a social media post that sounds like an ad for a monster truck rally is certainly one way to handle 21st-century geopolitics.
Source: NBC News
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