At the 2025 G7 summit, Donald Trump dived headfirst into what can only be described as a strange, public therapy session about his “separation anxiety” from Vladimir Putin.
In a brief media appearance alongside Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Trump lamented about how Russia used to be part of the G7—back when it was the “G8″—and how its exclusion was, in his esteemed opinion, a “mistake.” With the confidence of someone completely ignoring the historical record, Trump boldly blamed former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama for kicking Russia out, despite the fact that Trudeau wasn’t even prime minister at the time. (Minor details, apparently.) For Trump, it was the reason for all of the world’s problems, including, somehow, the war in Ukraine.
