Trump at the G7. "Moron" is too kind a word.

Obama should have done more (what, war?) to keep the Russians out of Ukraine and from annexing the Crimea, and while O and the allies kicked the Russians out of the (then) G8 and imposed sanctions to punish them he says we need to lift the sanctions and invite the Russians back into the (now) G7.

He's seriously undermining the Western alliance and fully justifying Putin's choice to support him in 2016.

A rant in Canada.

Speaking to reporters at the end of a contentious weekend meeting of the Group of 7 nations in a resort town outside of Quebec City, Mr. Trump said that eliminating all trading barriers would be “the ultimate thing.” 

But he railed about what he called “ridiculous and unacceptable” tariffs on American goods and vowed to get rid of them.

“It’s going to stop. Or we’ll stop trading with them. And that’s a very profitable answer, if we have to do it,” Mr. Trump said, adding, “We’re like the piggy bank that everybody’s robbing, and that ends.”

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Mr. Trump said he would know within the first minute of his face-to-face meeting whether Mr. Kim was serious about eliminating his nuclear weapons and attempting to make peace with the world.

“Just my touch, my feel. That’s what I do,” Mr. Trump said. 

“You know, the way they say you know if you’re going to like somebody in the first five seconds. Did you ever hear that one? Well, I think that very quickly I’ll know whether or not something good is going to happen.”

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Several of the leaders responded aggressively to Mr. Trump’s demands — as they have repeatedly in public — listing their own complaints about American policies on tariffs and other trade measures, the official said. 

Several countries have said publicly they will retaliate against the United States’ new steel and aluminum tariffs with increased tariffs of their own.

“If they retaliate, they’re making a mistake,” Mr. Trump said, suggesting that the trade imbalance between the United States and those countries would make tariff increases more destructive for their economies.

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“I blame our leaders,” he said. 

“In fact, I congratulate the leaders of other countries for so crazily being able to make these trade deals that were so good for their country and so bad for the United States. But those days are over.”

Mr. Trump said some of the other leaders he met with during the Group of 7 summit appeared to admit that their trade arrangements with the United States were unfair.

“A lot of these countries actually smile at me when I’m talking,” he said. “And the smile is, ‘we couldn’t believe we got away with it.’ That’s the smile.”

That assessment by Mr. Trump stands in contrast to the public statements by those leaders, who have repeatedly insisted that they will not accept the kinds of tariffs that Mr. Trump has imposed on their industries.

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Mr. Trump also blamed former President Barack Obama for Russia’s invasion, in which the country sent troops into Crimea. 

Mr. Trump said that it was Mr. Obama who should take responsibility for Russia’s actions.

“Crimea was let go during the Obama administration, and you know, Obama can say all he wants, but he allowed Russia to take Crimea,” the president said. 

“I may have had a much different attitude, but, so, you really have to ask that question to President Obama. You know, why did he do that?”

In fact, in the wake of the Russian invasion in 2014, it was Mr. Obama who led the other six nations in the Group of 7 to expel Russia in a joint statement known as The Hague Declaration.

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In response to a question from a CNN reporter about his relationships with the foreign leaders, the president dismissed the question.

“I figured. Fake news CNN. The worst,” Mr. Trump said. 

“The relationship that I’ve had is great. So you can tell that to your fake friends at CNN.”