QUEBEC - Donald Trump's top economic adviser is accusing Justin Trudeau of betraying the U.S. administration hours after the president himself launched insults at the prime minister, calling him "very dishonest and weak."
Trump lashed out at Trudeau after the G7 issued a joint communique on Saturday in which the embattled alliance managed to overcome some differences and find areas of common ground.
Within minutes of the official release of the document, Trump attacked Trudeau on Twitter over what he described as the prime minister's "false statements" during the closing news conference — and the president announced the U.S. would no longer endorse the communique.
Speaking to CNN today, Trump adviser Larry Kudlow says he personally negotiated with Trudeau during the two-day G7 summit in Quebec's Charlevoix region and insists the U.S. agreed to the language in the communique in good faith.
Kudlow says the White House has taken issue with Trudeau's comments during the news conference that Canada must stand up for itself and that recently imposed U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum are "insulting."
Kudlow says Trudeau's actions were a "sophomoric play" and says the prime minister stabbed his U.S. allies in the back, which he argues did a great disservice to the whole G7.
He insists, like Trump himself has done many times, that Canada has enormous tariffs itself — especially on certain dairy and food products.
According to a Reuters report on the same CNN interview, Kudlow said that Trump had to pull out of a joint G7 statement because the Canadian president had "stabbed us in the back."
"He held a press conference and he said the U.S. is insulting. He said that Canada has to stand up for itself. He says that we are the problem with tariffs. The non-factual part of this is - they have enormous tariffs," Kudlow said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"Here's the thing," he added. "He really kind of stabbed us in the back."
Asked about Trump's tweets and the future of the G7 late Saturday during a photo op in La Malbaie, Trudeau declined to respond to several questions.
The Prime Minister's Office did release a statement late Saturday, following Trump's tweets, that said: "We are focused on everything we accomplished here at the G7 summit. The prime minister said nothing he hasn't said before — both in public, and in private conversations with the president."
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The demise of the fragile communique is seen as a major blow to the strength of the G7 alliance, which is made up of wealthy developed democracies that also includes Germany, Japan, France, the United Kingdom and Italy.
-------------不是一般的愤怒，土豆就喜欢演戏，没有当面表达自己观点的勇气，结果让人认为非常虚伪。加拿大一个国家，能选择土豆，难道都是大妈在投票？
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Criticalthinker
2018-06-10 18:12
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还是哈勃当年说的对"he is just not ready."这话太委婉了，大家拿的人现在刚弄明白吧😀
G7总共的日程只有两天，能真正讨论、共同认可啥？ Trump作为民选总统要说话算数，为美国乳业农民争取利益，有错吗？民主的底线不是自由表达意见吗？怎么就成了6欺一的外交霸凌？！问题在于这个世界被那些习惯性撒谎、只关心表面文章的精蝇们统治了太久，以至于人们已经不习惯一个按照牌理出牌的民选总统。
至于土豆和其他的政客幕僚们，人前一套、背后一套；选前一套选后一套地装B已经深入其DNA了，唯一的办法就是象安省这样，让政治舞台变天。Montreal新市长玩得一手好装B政治学（中英）
那些跑出来酸的其他政治势力，《中美贸易谈判输赢，谁在撒谎？》Trump今天在G7上被问到报复性关税时，都不提中国的名字了：“one country we have 375 billion in trade deficits....”（某个国家）， Google一下，满篇都是“The United States had a record trade deficit with China of $375 billion in 2017” （Google翻译：2017年美国对华的贸易赤字是3750亿）， 然后Trump在回答关于最近的中美贸易谈判提问时说“ We win that war a thousand times out of a thousand” （那场战争我们赢了对方千万倍都不止）。 在这次讲话中，Trump在谈到美国之前被G7其他国家占便宜时这么说的“Idon't blame other leaders for that I blame our past leaders(Google翻译：我不责怪其他领导人，但我怪我们过去的领导人)......infact I congratulate the leaders of other countries for so crazily being able tomake these trade deals that were so good for their country and so bad for theUS but those days are over”（Google翻译：事实上，我祝贺其他国家的领导人如此疯狂地做出这些对他们的国家非常好、对美国如此糟糕的贸易协议）。 是不是卖国协议，大概只有后世的历史书才能揭露真相！
《蒙城华人网》站主不是"赵家人"吗？
Truth be told, given the fact that “ the 44th G7 summit was held on June 8–9, 2018″ for merely 2 days, wasn’t it just a show time? What can be seriously discussed and agreed on? The G6 successfully turned the summit to a diplomatic bullying of the minority who was fighting for people’s interests but they did not get any credit for doing it. The problem is that the world has long time been dominated by congenital liars. For those who support Justin Trudeau because of his pretty face, two days before the summit, the Liberal Party was historically defeated in Ontario and it was pretty much due to his administration. As a Canadian resident, I would have defended for the PM if the authorities treated us fairly and sincerely.
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小小灵通
2018-06-11 08:45
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明年滚蛋。别让我跟着这么个货丢人
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五福临门
2018-06-11 07:17
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花袜子土豆小总理该下台了！支持他继续找个part time 的零工打打，支持他继续读那个8年还没有读完的专业，支持他在土豆自己的家装b,千万不要再出来祸害人民！
川普推文怒怼杜鲁多是温和的面瓜、软弱不诚实