President Donald Trump will depart the White House following his special UFC Freedom 250 match early Monday to attend the G7 summit in France that afternoon, where he is also scheduled to meet separately with Middle Eastern leaders, according to the White House.
The talks come as the United States and Iran, through mediation by Pakistan, appear to be making progress on finalizing a peace deal in exchange for Iran handing over its nuclear material in the coming days, with Trump to meet on the sidelines of the G7 with key Middle Eastern leaders.
The Russia-Ukraine war, the Gaza peace deal, and talks between Lebanon and Israel are also expected to be discussed, according to senior administration officials.
Trump will depart Washington after celebrating Flag Day and his 80th birthday with a primetime mixed martial arts show on the White House lawn. The White House said ahead of the UFC Freedom 250 event that such fights are “not entirely without precedent,” noting the boxing matches that former President Theodore Roosevelt regularly staged at the White House.
On Monday evening local time, the U.S. president will hold bilateral talks with French President Emmanuel Macron after he arrives in the French lakeside town of Évian-les-Bains. He will then join other G7 leaders for the official G7 greeting and working dinner.
On Tuesday morning, June 16, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will join the G7 leaders for talks, before Trump holds bilateral meetings with the Emir of the State of Qatar and the president of the United Arab Emirates, followed by a working lunch with the G7 and the Middle Eastern leaders.
No bilateral talks are scheduled with Zelenskyy, although the two leaders could meet on the sidelines of the summit.
Trump will then spend the afternoon and Wednesday morning with G7 leaders—Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—and partner countries to discuss mutually beneficial international investment partnerships, with the U.S. president expected to call for the leading industrialised nations to pursue global economic growth “through regulatory streamlining and energy abundance,” a senior administration official said.
A total of 16 nations have been invited by Macron to attend the summit.
Trump is expected to raise issues of shared importance, including boosting innovation and supply chain resilience, and strengthening responses to illegal immigration and drug smuggling, the official said. He will also promote the adoption of AI technology that the United States is leading the world in developing, among other issues.
On the last day of the summit, Trump will attend bilateral meetings with Egyptian President el-Sisi and Indian Prime Minister Modi, with whom Trump is expected to discuss a likely bilateral trade deal that could be reached in the coming weeks.
France said on June 11—while convening a one-off Global Convergence for Growth Summit as part of its G7 presidency in an attempt to foster cooperation between G7 and the emerging economies of China, India, Brazil, and South Korea—that it will also promote the discussion of global economic cooperation at the G7 summit, continuing its efforts to “restore a strong industrial base in Europe and to balance trade with both China and the United States.”
“By building more balanced economies, we will create the conditions for sustainable, stable, and shared growth,” Macron said in a post on X.
A U.S. official told reporters Saturday that it was very smart and appropriate for the French to be including global imbalances in the G7 agenda—something Trump has been leading the world to address for years, at times alone. They said the United States is happy to cooperate with other countries to resolve the global trade imbalances, driven by large surplus countries like China but also the European Union, which has seen the movement of U.S. manufacturing offshore until Trump began applying pressure once elected to office.
After the summit, Trump will attend a special dinner with Macron at the Palace of Versailles near Paris on Wednesday evening to mark the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence before returning to Washington.
The United States will assume the rotating G7 presidency on Jan. 1, 2027.
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