President heads to France summit after an odd, chaotic week — even by his standards
Look out, Biarritz, here comes “The Chosen One.”
The chic resort town on France’s picturesque Basque coastline will host a G-7 summit this weekend amid worries about a global recession and fraying alliances in Europe and Asia. President Donald Trump — who used that moniker Wednesday to describe himself as a savior in a decades-old trade dispute with China despite so far failing to resolve a single issue — will be center stage after one of the most erratic and strange weeks of his wild presidency.
Early in the two-day summit, the president is expected to make a pitch that other governments mirror his economic stewardship with tax cuts and moves like cutting regulations. That will come during a special session on the state of the global economy that his administration requested be added to the agenda amid worldwide recession worries — even though Trump has said he sees no such major economic slowdown on his own turf.
View the complete August 23 article by John T. Bennett on The Roll Call website here.