President Trump said again Tuesday that he would like to see Russia rejoin the G7 — just days before his planned attendance at the group’s latest summit later this week in France.

“It was the G8 for a long time, and now it’s the G7,” the president said during a White House meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis.

“I could certainly see it being the G8 again, if someone would make that motion, I would be disposed to think about it favorably. As you know, for most of the time it was the G8 and it included Russia,” the president said.

Trump then blamed President Barack Obama for Russia’s ouster after his predecessor was supposedly “outsmarted” by Russian strongman Vladimir Putin over his country’s annexation of Crimea and meddling in Ukraine.

“I guess President Obama because Putin outsmarted him, President Obama thought it wasn’t good so he wanted Russia out, but I think it’s much more appropriate to have Russia in. A lot of the things we talk about have to do with Russia,” he continued.

“President Obama didn’t want Russia in because he got outsmarted. Well, that’s not really the way it should work.”

Trump has made his position clear before, calling for Russia to be included in the group since 2016.

Russia was suspended from the G8 in 2014 after the majority of member countries protested its annexation of Crimea — the first open violation of a European country’s borders since World War II.