President Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron plan to hold a joint press conference on Thursday in Paris, according to the French government.

New: Trump and Macron will do a press conference in Paris on Thursday, per @gviscusi. Conférence de presse conjointe. — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) July 11, 2017

Trump and Macron will also hold a joint press conference in Paris on Thursday, according to @Elysee - @paulprad90 https://t.co/LQxQHFqd52 — Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) July 11, 2017

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Trump is traveling to France this week to meet with Macron and attend a Bastille Day celebration.

The two leaders have a tense relationship, marked by a public disagreement over Trump’s decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord.

Macron engaged Trump in a prolonged handshake at a May summit meeting in Brussels, a move the French leader said was meant to assert his dominance.

"My handshake with him, it's not innocent," Macron told the Journal du Dimanche at the time. "It's not the alpha and the omega of politics, but a moment of truth."

Trump left last week’s G-20 summit without holding a full press conference, making him one of the only world leaders who did not answer reporters' questions. He has not held a solo press conference since February.

The president did participate in a joint press conference last week with Polish President Andrzej Duda in which the leaders took questions from two U.S. and two Polish journalists.