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It hasn't taken long for Donald Trump to go viral at the G7 summit in Italy - and everyone's laughing at one particular video.

In the clip, the camera pans across a board of world leaders all listening intently with their headphones to translations of the speech of their Italian host, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

We see German Chancellor Angela Merkel giving her fingernails a swift glance as she listens and Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi closing his notes as he sits back in his chair.

Then... who's this? US President Donald Trump appears in the frame.

He appears to be wearing a very serious facial expression as he listens to the Italian speech.

But there's one very obvious difference between him and the others.

Where are his headphones? How can he be listening to this without a translation in his ear?

Is Donald Trump actually a fluent Italian speaker? We doubt it.

A BBC News reporter shared the video on Twitter, saying: "A short clip that sums up this G7 summit: look who has chosen not to hear a translation of his Italian host's speech #G6"

People had their own theories

Including that he wasn't actually awake

Even Graham Le Saux weighed in

Then they started imagining what Trump would say

Sounds about right.

Sean Spicer came to Trump's rescue

The President's Press Secretary, Sean Spicer, retweeted the video with his own explanation of why Trump wasn't wearing any headphones.

He said: "As usual [the President of the United States] wears a single ear piece for translation in his right ear."

But people didn't believe him

Some people have defended Trump by saying Spicer's explanation of an earpiece in his right ear is true. Others said he was clearly reading notes of the speech.

But it's prompted many to ask why he wouldn't just wear the headphones anyway, as a matter of appearances, to match the other world leaders at the summit.

Surely he knew he would be filmed seemingly not listening?

Next time, Trump will probably want to put on a pair of big headphones so he can't be accused of not paying attention.