Trump Postpones G7 Summit and Calls for Russia to Attend - The New York Times

The president said he also planned to invite South Korea, Australia and India to the meeting of world leaders in order to discuss China’s future.

President Trump said on Saturday that he planned to postpone the annual Group of 7 summit of world leaders until September and that he wanted to invite Russia to rejoin as part of an alliance to discuss the future of China.

Trump told reporters traveling with him aboard Air Force One on his way back from Florida, where he attended the launch of the SpaceX rocket, that he also planned to invite South Korea, Australia and India to the meeting to discuss China’s future.

Trump made the announcement not long after Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany had suggested she wouldn’t attend a summit held in Washington amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The president’s saying he would invite Russia — which was indefinitely suspended from the group in 2014 after the annexing of Crimea from Ukraine — could inflame other member nations.

Trump is allowed to invite whoever he wants.

And by making Russia one of four countries he said he wants to invite, it means that Russia would be a guest, the way it was before it formally joined the group in the mid-1990s.

Trump at one point described the theoretical gathering as the “G10 or G11,” which would mean making those countries members — something he cannot do on his own.

Trump suggested he would host the summit in September, possibly around the time of the United Nations General Assembly, which is slated to begin Sept.

Trump mused that he might schedule the summit for after the November general election.

Trump stunned his director of national intelligence at the time, Dan Coats, when he announced he planned to invite Mr.

Trump had previously suggested holding the summit in June.

Trump suggested holding the event at Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat that the president has visited only periodically during his term.

Trump announced he would host the summit at one of his private clubs, the Trump National Doral near Miami.

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Trump had crossed a line in trying to hold that kind of event at one of his properties, where he would ostensibly profit off the spending of taxpayer funds to host the event and receive free publicity.

Trump called for Russia to be readmitted to the summit.

Trump told reporters

“The people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were,” Mr

Trump told Mr