Trump arrives at G7 summit to face alienated European leaders

GENEVA — In a now-famous “Saturday Night Live” skit from December 2019, President Trump (Alec Baldwin) was excluded from the lunch table of “cool” world leaders, who banished him to sit with Latvia.What was farce six-and-a-half years ago may be close to real life at this week’s G7 summit on the shores of Lake Geneva.Of the six national heads of government who make up the core of the forum, Trump has crossed rhetorical swords with five of them in recent months.Only French President Emmanuel Macron, the summit host, will get a one-on-one meeting with the commander in chief this week.“No one wants to have a confrontation, even if things get quite passive aggressive at times,” Max Bergmann, a European expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), told The Post last week.“There’s always the possibility that things might snap, and it might get rather dramatic,” he added.

“Alec Baldwin had a great skit for ‘SNL’ when he was Trump alone at the lunch table.And so I kind of think leaders will keep their distance.”Trump has railed at Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over what he called their lack of support for his war with Iran.

The trio of European leaders, in return, are frustrated with Trump’s tariff policy and his handling of the war in Ukraine. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has also been distancing herself from Trump, who is unpopular in her country, as she faces a challenging general election no later than the end of next year.The president also publicly attacked Meloni, with whom he bonded at the start of his term, after she defended Pope Leo XIV’s own critique of US actions in the Middle East.And Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, like his predecessor Justin Trudeau, has borne the brunt of many Trump attacks — including a disruptive trade war and threats to make America’s neighbor the 51st state.The only G7 leader currently believed to be on good ...