Donald Trump spent the weekend in Biarritz, France, for the G7 summit, but he’s hoping that the global economic leaders’ next meeting will be a little closer to home. Specifically, the president wants to host the 2020 G7 summit at Trump National Doral resort in Miami. Touting its “tremendous acreage,” its many buildings, and its proximity to the airport, Trump claimed that American officials “haven’t found anything that’s even close to competing” with his golf course. “People are really liking it,” he said following a weekend of meetings with world leaders who reportedly regard him as a tempestuous child.

Trump’s talk of using next year’s G7 to line his pockets was just one of several surreal moments from his weekend abroad, where he has so far avoided the kind of full-scale meltdown that characterized last year’s summit, but where he nevertheless appeared severely out of his depth and isolated from the other world leaders—longstanding American allies who spent the conference trying to avoid triggering a presidential tantrum.

Trump did not appear as hungry for conflict during the conference as his staff, which complained that French President Emmanuel Macron was focusing on “niche issues” in seeking to address climate change, income, and gender equality, and development in Africa. But Trump has never been one for in-person confrontation, preferring to take shots at fellow leaders from the safety of Air Force One or the Oval Office, as he did in 2018 when he rage-tweeted that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was “very dishonest & weak” during the summit. As of Monday morning he’d avoided similar tears, and even seemed to dial back his rhetoric on China amid other leaders’ concerns about his ongoing trade war. Calling his Chinese counterpart a “great leader” on Monday, Trump said that “we’re going to start very shortly to negotiate”—another reversal for the president, whose aides claimed in recent days that his only regret in starting his current pissing contest with China was that he didn’t raise the tariffs against them high enough. “We’ll see what happens,” Trump said, “but I think we’re going to make a deal.”

While such an agreement would likely be welcomed, it’s not clear the president is truly willing to give any ground, or even representing his interactions with Xi accurately. Though Trump claims the two sides have been communicating “at the highest level,” Beijing didn’t confirm any calls, and the president has proven an unreliable narrator. Trump found himself at odds with his counterparts numerous times during the summit, skipping out on a climate meeting as the Amazon burned and—perhaps most contentiously—once again raising the prospect of readmitting Russia to the group. But while those disagreements played out away from the cameras, Trump insisted to the press that his relationships with America’s allies are hunky-dory: “This has been a really great G7,” he said Sunday. Other world leaders sought to paper over disagreements by flattering Trump, only to have him run roughshod over their conversations. Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe each believed they’d found common ground after discussing the weapons programs of Iran and North Korea, respectively, only to have Trump pull the rug out from under them shortly thereafter. “I haven’t discussed that,” Trump said of conversations with Macron about Iran’s nuclear program. “He’s not in violation of an agreement,” he said of Kim Jong Un’s short-range missile testing, which has raised fears in nearby Japan.

Trump, too, found himself caught off guard at times. Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi personally rebuffed Trump’s offer to mediate the country’s dispute with Pakistan over the Kashmir region after the president last month claimed he’d been asked to do so. And Macron seemed to surprise Trump by inviting the Iranian foreign minister to the summit amid high tensions between Washington and Tehran, driven in large part by the president having pulled the U.S. from the Iran nuclear deal and mounting a pressure campaign against the government there.

This G7 may have been calmer than the last, but that’s not because Trump was a steadier presence or because his relationships with world leaders have changed in any meaningful way. Rather, it’s because said leaders seemed to make every effort to grit their teeth and get through the conference without acrimony. After a contentious G7 last year, Trump famously declined to sign the customary joint communique to show accord with his allies. There won’t be any such trouble this year—Macron isn’t going to put forth a joint communique at all.

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