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Trump: "We've concluded a really tremendously successful G7."
Trump thanks Trudeau and says, "The people of Canada are wonderful, it's a great country...beautiful country, I might add."
Trump: The U.S. has been "taken advantage of" for "decades and decades" on trade. He complains of Canada's dairy tariffs, falsely claims that the U.S. has no dairy tariffs.
Trump says they discussed the threat of "uncontrolled migration" and how to help migrants "remain and prosper in their own home countries."
Trump falsely claims that the U.S. had an "$817 billion" trade deficit last year. He usually just says $800 billion. That number excludes trade in services. The actual deficit last year was $566 billion.
Trump on trade: "I blame our past leaders...I congratulate the leaders of other countries for so crazily being able to make these trade deals so good for their countries and so bad for the United States."
So crazily.
Trump says Kim Jong Un has an opportunity few people have ever had, if you look back at history. "It's a one-time shot."
Trump says "some people" like the idea of bringing Russia back into the G7. He says "something happened" a while ago that resulted in Russia being kicked out. He says it'd be better if Russia was back. "We're looking for peace in the world, we're not looking to play games."
Trump: "No tariffs, no barriers, that's the way it should be. And no subsidies." He complains that Canada has "tremendous tariffs" on dairy.

It's genuinely unclear that he understands that the point of free trade agreements like NAFTA is to eliminate tariffs and barriers.
Trump says it was "not contentious" talking trade with other leaders, "relationships are outstanding," Trudeau did a good job, but "it's gotta change."

"We're like the piggy bank that everybody's robbing," he says.
! Trump says other countries will reduce their tariffs "or we'll stop trading with them -- and that's a very profitable answer if we have to do it."

That is one of the most nonsensical claims of his presidency.
Trump on NAFTA: "We'll either leave it the way it is as a threesome deal with Canada, the United States and Mexico, and change it very substantially..." or separate deals with Canada and Mexico.
Trump says it was Barack Obama who "let Crimea get away."

"Obama can say all he wants, but he allowed Russia to take Crimea. I may have had a much different attitude," he says. "Why did he do that? Why did he do that?" But "with that being said, it's been done a long time."
Trump on NAFTA: If a deal isn't made, it'd be bad for Canada and Mexico but "a good thing" for the US, but even though it'd be better for the US to not have a deal, he wants to make a deal.
Trump claims that the NAFTA parties are "very close" on the proposal for an auto-termination "sunset clause" Canada and Mexico say they cannot accept.
Trump asks a reporter who they're with, then says of course it's "fake news CNN."

"I could tell by the question," he says.
Trump laments that the U.S. used to be a country that was very "cashflow oriented." Truly have no idea what he's talking about
Trump says his relationship with allies is great, then adds: "You can tell that to your fake friends at CNN."
Trump lies that the U.S. has a trade deficit with "almost every country." It has a trade surplus with more than half of all countries. This is the 20th time he has said this.
False claims coming fast and furious now: Trump says the U.S. has a $100 billion trade deficit with Mexico (it's $69 billion; he's said this 25 times); that he's started building The Wall (no).
Note: the G7 is not over, Trump is just leaving, so it's over for him
Trump says he'll know whether Kim Jong Un is serious "in the first minute" of their meeting, because of his "touch" and "feel."
Trump complains of "haters" who complain that he's giving Kim Jong Un a meeting. "Give me a break," he says.
Trump is now telling his usual tales about how the leaders of China, Canada and the EU, behind closed doors, basically admit they've been taking advantage of the US all these years.
"The U.S. press is very dishonest, much of it," Trump says in Canada.
Trump talks more about "the fake news," then leaves. That was all very Trumpful.
My vote for most remarkable moment: Trump yada-yada-ed the illegal annexation of Crimea.
In case this was unclear, Trump said that his own brilliant intuition - his “touch” and “feel” - will immediately inform him whether Kim is serious. Not how Kim literally feels when they touch. Carry on
Worth watching this
Here's the official transcript of Trump bashing CNN in response to a perfectly reasonable question.
And here's how Trump's press conference in Canada ended.
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