The bombshell arrives as usual with a statement entrusted directly to the network: US President Donald Trump withdraws the signature from Charlevoix's final document and accuses Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau of being a "weak and dishonest" leader. With a tweet, the "breaking" president already on his way to Singapore where on Tuesday he will meet Kim Jong Un, definitively crushes a summit that had already started all uphill on the points on the agenda, from duties to Iranian nuclear power, to relations with Russia under sanctions. The summit reset button crushed by the US president out of time is the straw that breaks the European camel, from which very harsh statements have come out. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas writes in a tweet that Trump "has destroyed the credibility of the G7", while for the French "international cooperation cannot depend on outbursts of anger and on words thrown away". And macron, says the Elysée, defines the about-face of the head of the White House as "inconsistent" and "inconsistent". To provoke the harsh reaction of the tenant of the White House, it was the final press conference of the Canadian premier, in which Trudeau attacked him for the tariffs. That was enough for Trump to crush the two days of bilateral, working tables, plenary sessions, already put to the test by the American president, who had responded to the charges of protectionism with the first challenge: a world without customs tariffs but also without subsidies. And which he then re-launched with the proposal, sounded more like a provocation to his European colleagues, to readmit Putin's Russia to the G8, suggesting that the Crimea issue was overcome for the US. While it is now clear that Trump's intention is to change the world order, it remains to be understood with what he eventually intends to replace it. In fact, it is immediately clear that a return to a system of relations based on bilateral relations would favor the US economy, which is unrivaled in the world in terms of size and innovative capacity of its companies. But Trump's choice to overcome the season of multilateralism, in the long run, could prove to be a not so successful bet. During the summit, Trump accused Europe of a trade surplus with the US of 150 billion dollars. In hindsight, a few pennies for an economy worth 20 trillion dollars a year. Are they worth a break with the historical allies which will benefit first and foremost the rivals of all time, starting with China and Russia?
