At the G7 summit currently being held in France, European leaders are making numerous gestures of courtesy toward an American president whom they have largely opposed in recent months. They are seeking to involve Donald Trump in resolving the Ukrainian conflict, but there is no indication that he is willing to do so.
When German Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented President Donald Trump with a football jersey bearing the number 47 on the morning of Tuesday, June 16, it was the kind of gesture a foreign leader might have made during his first term: flattering, conciliatory, and calculated to please. [The number 47 refers to the fact that Donald Trump is the 47th president of the United States since his return to the White House.] But Friedrich Merz acted after a period of heightened tensions, during which he and other European leaders had condemned the war in Iran, prompting Donald Trump to announce that the United States would withdraw some of its troops from the continent.
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