Leaving the Group of Seven Summit for Singapore, President Trump tweeted that he has instructed U. S. representatives to not endorse a joint communique issued by the G-7 leaders.
Trump said his statement was in response to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comment following the summit that Canada "would not be pushed around."
"PM Justin Trudeau of Canada acted so meek and mild during our @G7 meetings only to give a news conference after I left saying that 'US Tariffs were kind of insulting' ... Very dishonest & weak," the president tweeted.
Trump posted his comments from Air Force One as Canada was releasing the official communique that had been endorsed by all seven leaders.
It said that
the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Japan had agreed on the need for "free, fair, and mutually beneficial trade."
Trudeau's office responded to Trump's tweet saying "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."
Earlier on Saturday, President Trump concluded his visit to the Group of Seven summit with warnings to U.S. allies, saying
if they don't eliminate barriers to trade, they could lose access to the U.S. economy.
Speaking in a solo press conference from the resort town of La Malbaie in Quebec, the president said that for too long, U.S. trade has suffered from "bad" trade deals agreed to by past U.S. presidents.
"The United States has been taken advantage of for decades and decades," Trump said. "I don't blame other leaders for that, I blame our past leaders. There was no reason that this should have happened."
Trump said he pushed for the elimination of trade barriers, including subsidies and tariffs, at the G-7 meeting.
Trump had already roiled G-7 members ahead of the summit and raised fears of a trade war when he placed tariffs on steel and aluminum from Canada, the European Union and Mexico. All three trading partners have threatened to retaliate with their own levies against U.S. imports.
"If they retaliate, they're making a mistake," Trump said.
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