The US blamed Canada on Sunday for the disastrous ending to the G7 summit, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau “stabbed us in the back,” while American allies held Washington responsible.
Just minutes after a joint G7 communique was published Saturday in summit host city Quebec, President Donald Trump launched a Twitter broadside, taking exception to comments made by Trudeau at a news conference and saying he had instructed US representatives not to endorse the joint communique.
Trump’s team kept up the barrage of criticism on US media Sunday.
Trudeau “really kinda stabbed us in the back,” top US economic advisor Larry Kudlow said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“He did a great disservice to the whole G7.”
US trade advisor Peter Navarro, speaking on Fox News Sunday, reinforced that message.
