Trump destroys Tucker Carlson with epic comeback after Iran criticism

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump ripped and mocked Tucker Carlson, who called the president ‘complicit’ in Israel’s attacks on Iran.

I don’t know what Tucker Carlson is saying. Let him go get a television network and say it so people listen.

Trump made the catty remark alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the top of their bilateral meeting Monday at the G7 Summit in Canada.

Carlson, who was formerly with the Fox News Channel, has long been critical of the Republican neoconservatives, who dragged the United States into the Iraq War during President George W. Bush’s tenure.

He has pushed that Trump should stay true to his ‘America First’ promises of getting and keeping the U.S. out of so-called ‘forever wars,’ as the president pledged on the campaign trail.

In an interview with ABC News on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu refused to rule out targeting Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

‘Look we’re doing what we need to do. I’m not getting into the details,’ he said.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump explained his decision to depart the G7 Summit in Canada a day early while posing for the ‘family photo’ Monday with other world leaders.

‘Well, I have to be back, very important,’ he told reporters as he posed for the G7’s family photo Monday evening. ‘I just want to thank our great host, Canada.’

He will depart Kananaskis, Canada Monday night and is expected to arrive back in Washington, D.C. early Tuesday morning, with Fox News reporting that Trump had instructed the National Security Council to assemble in the White House’s Situation Room.

‘You probably see what I see and I have to be back as soon as I can,’ Trump continued. ‘I’m going to have dinner with these wonderful leaders and then I get on a plane, I have to be back early.’

‘I wish I could stay for tomorrow, but they understand this, it’s big stuff,’ the president added.

He then joked, ‘Do you have questions for anybody else?’

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney chimed in saying that the leaders ‘had a bit more work to do, so we’ll go do it over dinner.’

‘I’m very grateful for the president’s presence and I fully understand why he must return,’ Carney added.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

The White House announced that President Donald Trump will leave the G7 meeting a day early to return to Washington amid Israel’s fresh bombing of Iran.

‘President Trump will return to Washington tonight so he can attend to many important matters,’ press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

The president was expected to spend a second full day in Canada before departing for Washington, D.C. Tuesday night.

That means Trump will miss a planned face-to-face meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, where the war with Russia was to be discussed.

He was also scheduled to have a bilateral meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, where immigration and trade would have been on the table.

At the end of the day, he was expected to hold a press conference.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump delivered a terrifying warning to Iranians amid Israel’s recent bombing of Iran.

‘Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!’ the U.S. president wrote in a Truth Social post, as he attended the G7 Summit in Canada.

Trump again pushed that the Iranian regime should have made a nuclear deal with him.

‘Iran should have signed the “deal” I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again!’ Trump wrote.

The president was most recently in a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer amid his first full day at the G7.

At the top of that meeting, Trump expressed that he believed a Iranian nuclear deal could still be signed.

President Trump appeared to weigh in heavily against tough Russia sanctions amid a split over a sanctions bill championed by his pal and usual ally Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).

‘Sanctions cost us a lot of money. When I sanction countries, that costs the US a lot of money, a tremendous amount of money,’ Trump said.

‘You’re talking about billions and billions of dollars, sanctions are not that easy, it’s not just a one-way street.’

Earlier Trump complained about leaders kicking Russia out of the then-G8 in 2014, after it annexed Crimea.

The US-UK trade deal has been signed and is ‘done’, US President Donald Trump has said.

It comes after crunch talks with Keir Starmer US at the G7 summit in Canada, with Trump saying it’s ‘fair’ for both nations.

Trump told reporters in Canada ‘We signed it, and it’s done’, as he appeared to mistakenly say he had signed a ‘trade agreement with the European Union’ as he stood alongside Starmer.

Trump continues to hold out hope that will sign a nuclear deal amid Iran’s relentless bombing campaign.

‘Israel is doing very well, as you probably know. And I gave Iran 60 days, and they said, well, at the 61st you saw what happened. Day 61. So I’m in constant touch. And as I’ve been saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed. And I think Iran is foolish not to sign,’ Trump said.

Asked if he would travel to the Middle East for any peace talks, Trump responded: ‘I think we’re doing pretty well. We’re talking. We have a thing called the telephone.’

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

President Donald Trump accidentally dropped parts of the trade agreement with the United Kingdom – and then said it was with the European Union.

The president was meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the G7 Summit Monday in Kananaskis, Canada when he made the oops.

He introduced the press to Starmer and then announced, ‘And we just signed a document.’

Several pages then fell out of the folder he was holding.

‘Sorry about that,’ Trump said. ‘It’s a little windy out here.’

Starmer bent down and picked up the pages and laughed, ‘a very important document.’

‘And so we have our trade agreement with the European Union,’ Trump said.

The president, who turned 79 on Saturday, had just concluded a meeting with the European Union’s Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen ahead of his bilat with Starmer.

President Trump put his John Hancock on a ‘legacy’ scroll at the G7. The president used a sharpie of the kind uses to ink executive orders.

A bright sunny day in Kananaskis with temperatures hovering in the low 60s got President Trump to thinking about the military parade in DC Sunday that almost got rained out.

Trump mentioned the parade while chatting with Canadian PM Carney as the pair posed for a photograph.

‘It is perfect, isn’t it?’ said Trump, with mountains and forests around them.

‘We got the parade done the other day. They said 100 percent chance of rain. Didn’t happen,’ he said. Trump moved up his own parade appearance and organizers adjusted the schedule events with thunderstorms in the forecast.

Some observers said the parade fell short of estimates of as many as 200,000, with some bleacher seats sparsely filled. The White House said 250,000 came, while separate estimates say millions nationwide took part in ‘No Kings’ marches that coincided with it.

By Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney savagely ended President Donald Trump’s back-and-forth with reporters Monday, as the two leaders kicked off the start of the G7 Summit with a bilateral meeting.

Trump almost immediately was critical of the G7’s decision to drop Russia from what had been the G8 in 2014 and voiced criticism of Carney’s predecessor and fellow liberal, former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

‘If you don’t mind, I’m just going to exercise my role, if you will, as G7 chair, since we have a few more minutes with the president and his team, and then we actually have to start the meeting to address some of these big issues,’ Carney said, ushering reporters out of the meeting room in less than eight minutes.

Body language expert Judi James told the Daily Mail that Trump is coming in ‘hot’ from his military parade and is in ‘fully pumped-up, grandiose global alpha leader here.’

Carney, on the other hand, is showing a ‘range of expression supressions and fleeting emotions while Trump is in full flow.’

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor for DailyMail.com in Kananaskis, Alberta

President Trump began his first event at the G7 by revisiting his long-held view that Russia shouldn’t have been kicked out of the group.

‘It used to be the G8. Barack Obama and President Trudeau didn’t want to have Russia in, and I would say that that was a mistake,’ Trump said.

He said ‘you wouldn’t have a war right now’ if Russia were still in.

The leaders kicked out Moscow following President Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014, which came six years before Russia launched its full-scale invasion.

‘They threw Russia out, which I claimed was a big mistake, even though I wasn’t in politics at the time,’ Trump said. It comes at a summit where Trump is expected to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, having spoken recently with Putin.

At a G7 where world leaders are trying to avoid blowups amid global tension, the most emotive reaction so far comes from Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

She was seated next to French President Emmanuel Macron at one of the working sessions.

Macron said something in her ear, and the Italian cast what looked like an epic eye roll.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Alberta

Several world leaders at the G7 opted to come stag to the annual confab, while some brought spouses to the tranquil wooded retreat in the Rockies.

President Trump is attending without first lady Melania Trump, who joined him at the parade on the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army on his 79thbirthday.

Also coming solo was President Emmanuel Macron, who was famously captured on video being pushed by French first lady Brigitte Macron on a trip to Vietnam.

Japanese President Ishida Mitsunari was accompanied by his wife, Kogetsu-in.

Canadian PM Carney introduced a series of world leader guests to his wife, Diana Fox Carney. While greeting German Chancellor Merz and his wife, Charlotte, he thanked her apologetically ‘for enduring our football talk.’

Italian PM Georgia Meloni is single, after dumping her partner in 2023.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Calgary

President Trump didn’t respond to a question about whether he was considering sending more ‘bunker buster’ bombs to Iran.

The president simply mouthed ‘thank you’ to a shouted question following a welcome event at the G7.

Organizers had arranged a photo-up in front of a bubbling fountain and a group logo amidst the greenery of the Kananaskis Mountain Lodge.

Advance officials on the scene tried to tamp down reporters’ questions at the photo-op. German Chancerlor Merz also avoided comment, as did French President Emmanuel Macron when asked by the Daily Mail whether there would be a joint communique coming out of the summit.

A top ally of President Donald Trump praised the Republican for his negotiating abilities at the G7 in Canada.

‘Thank goodness we have President Trump’s strong leadership at the G7,’ Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, posted Monday on X.

‘There’s no better negotiator than him!’

Jordan was a frequent critic of former President Joe Biden and investigated the Democrat’s personal business dealings, including those of Hunter Biden, for years.

President Donald Trump ordered a new blitz on Democrat cities that will see huge numbers of illegal immigrants rounded up for the ‘largest mass deportation in history.’

Trump told the Daily Mail when asked about the sweeping directive at the G7:

‘I want them to focus on the cities… Biden allowed 21 million people to come into our country… Most of those people are in the cities. All blue cities. All Democrat-run cities. And they think they’re going to use them to vote. It’s not gonna happen.’

President Donald Trump told reporters at the G7 Summit that he’s heard from the Iranians, but it may be too late to strike a nuclear deal.

‘They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before. They had 60 days and on the 61st day I said, “we don’t have a deal.”

‘They have to make a deal. It’s painful for both parties.

‘I’d say Iran is not winning this war … and they should talk immediately before it’s too late.

By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.S. Political Editor in Kananaskis, Canada

Donald Trump holds his first meeting of the G7 with host nation Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney – in his first sojourn to the country since saying repeatedly he wants to absorb it into the U.S.

Trump landed in Calgary Sunday night before flying by helicopter to Kananaskis surrounded by the Canadian Rockies.

With Israel’s clash with Iran in the backdrop, Trump attends an official welcome and holds several sessions with gathered world leaders. Trump, who spoke briefly with reporters before leaving D.C. but avoided making news en route, also attends a cultural event.

Then, he attends a cultural event, which gives him the chance to take in some of the local culture of a country he said needs to be the 51st U.S. state.

Trump is also expected to meet with Mexican President Sheinbaum and Ukrainian President Zelensky during the two-day summit.

The last time world leaders gathered in Kananaskis, a bear tried to make its way into the 2002 meeting of the world’s top eight economies and met an untimely end.

This time, members of the G7 are developing strategies to handle a different formidable figure: President Donald Trump.

It will be Trump’s first time setting foot on Canadian soil since saying Canada was ‘meant to be’ the 51st U.S. state and slapping 25 percent tariffs on Canada’s steel.

The two teams battling on the ice at the East Calgary Twin Arenas are checking each other with ferocity – with slots in a successful Canadian youth league on the line in a country where hockey is king.

But in a region that will soon host President Donald Trump and other G7 leaders, hockey parents and other locals are bracing for another face-off – this one involving a volatile U.S. president who vows to make Canada the 51st State.

‘I think if it was reversed, we would probably have a war on our hands, because the Americans would not put up with it,’ said Curtis Reynard, 47, electrical contractor whose 17-year-old son played goalie for the first of two games Saturday.

French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a blunt message to Donald Trump by stopping in Greenland Sunday en route to the G7 – a massive territory the U.S. president says the nation ‘needs.’

Macron stopped in Nuuk, the same city visited by Donald Trump, Jr. and Vice President JD Vance in separate stops that alarmed some locals who favor moves toward independence or continued association with Denmark.