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World leaders mock Putin at G7 summit
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
- The leaders of the world’s leading industrial nations are meeting for a three-day G7 summit in Bavaria, Germany.
- Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau were caught on video mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting on Sunday.
- The prime Ministers made fun of the 2009 photo of a bare-chested Putin riding a horse.
World leaders, including President Joe Biden, are meeting for a three-day G7 summit in Bavaria, Germany. The G7 is an informal meeting that brings together the leaders of the world’s leading industrial nations.
Video footage shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson mocking a photo of a shirtless Vladimir Putin riding a horse.
Trudeau and Johnson made the comments on Sunday during the G7 summit. The world leaders are expected to talk about the war in Ukraine, including imposing more sanctions on Russia and sending more military aid packages to Kyiv.
The video was released by Agence France-Presse.
It shows the G7 leaders sitting down for the meeting. Johnson asked his colleagues if they should leave their jackets on or take them off.
“We all have to show that we’re tougher than Putin,” the U.K. PM said, which drew laughter from some of the other leaders on the table.
Trudeau joined on the joke and immediately responded: “We’re going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display.”
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen stated: “Oh yes. Horseback riding is the best.”
“We’ve got to show them our pecs,” Johnson said.
President Biden can be seen smiling at Johnson but not commenting on anything. Neither the White House nor the Kremlin did not issue any response to the banter.
Johnson and Trudeau were obviously referring to 2009 photos of the Russian president who was shirtless while riding a horse while on vacation in Siberia.
Other world leaders who attended the summit include Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Council President Charles Michel.
On Monday morning, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke at the summit via video link and requested more heavy weaponry for his country. The European Union has approved the application of Ukraine to become a candidate country for admission to the 27-strong bloc.
The G7 summit is a three-day affair that will run until Tuesday.
Source: The Guardian
don pressman
June 27, 2022 at 6:37 pm
instead of mocking him, they should give him 1 day to stop the bombing
Esthersdaughter
June 27, 2022 at 7:15 pm
They are the evil puppets and Putin is cleaning up our deep state people.
How can Biden be in Germany when he headed for Delaware Friday night for the weekend?
Marv
June 27, 2022 at 9:53 pm
Agree, these so called world leaders are acting like silly children, world leaders my A**!
Michael Morrow
June 28, 2022 at 12:58 pm
That is a simple answer, the press was given misinformation, and instead of flying to Delaware, Biden flew to Germany.
Mike Tracy
June 28, 2022 at 10:02 pm
We The People should be apologizing to Russia for Obama, Hillary, the Bidens, and whoever else was involved in placing any sort of military installation anywhere near Russia during the Obama Administration. Russia has every right to pissed!
We the People should fork over the culprits to Putin and all the Russian people who were intimidated by this encroachment. We The People need to treat Russia with respect. These “World Leaders” who mock and bully Russia are like a gang of idiotic adolescents who think they are powerful because they’re grouped together to form United Nations. It’s a dangerous scenario that needs to be negotiated by mature diplomats, not money laundering politicians that funnel their nations tax dollars into their own bank accounts during the deception they portray to their citizens that the reason we are all involved is strictly humanitarian direction. Bullshit! We The People need to elect some new “world leaders” with common sense and integrity that will treat other Country’s and their leaders with more respect! Or would you all rather just get fried in a nuclear conflict caused by ignorant disrespect?
ARJAY
June 28, 2022 at 12:07 am
Obviously in that photo, putin was riding bareback! Many people ride horses bareback.
COLIN BROWN
June 28, 2022 at 12:53 am
World leaders….. God help us 🙏🏻