Ladies, polish your nails. Gents, shine your shoes. Gas up the jet, we’re off to the G7.
What is the G7?
Group of Seven (G7) is a group consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries, with the seven largest IMF-described advanced economies in the world,[1] represent 58% of the global net wealth ($317 trillion).[2]The G7 countries also represent more than 46% of the global gross domestic product (GDP) based on nominal values, and more than 32% of the global GDP based on purchasing power parity.[3] The European Union is also represented at the G7 summit.
The MEMES will be WILD this weekend, so prepare yourself. We should definitely join in the fun. Remember our fun in Canada? And the difference between the two photos?
Of course, the MSM is already trying to tell us what to think, CNN has an article out about how much all the other leaders are “tense” and can sense the “impending drama” of a Trump visit.
Yet hey, Merkel is old news,
Macron has dandruff. Justin Trudeau is ethically challenged, admitted it, but won’t resign. Justin from Canada is irrelevant.
Salvini and Abe are our buddies, and you know what…….. so is Boris Johnson.
Wait, wait, wait, ……… wut? Whoopsie Daisy, the Old Power Club has FLIPPED. The cabal is no longer in charge.
Full stop. What has happened in the last 3yrs? Oh my!!!!!!! Think about it. Three years ago, back in 2016, when Obama went, Merkel was practically leader of the world…… and now, look at her. It’s a Juncker-Merkel.
Look at Trudeau. What a goofball. Can you imagine President Trump dancing around like this? Macron is no better, though. What a bunch of lightweights.
But this time, it’s four against three.
Which means, President Trump has far more leverage. This time, it’s OUR turn.
President Trump doesn’t like these guys at all. They don’t pay their NATO bills. They leave migrant messes for the USA to clean up, and now that we’ve smashed ISIS in the Middle East, they won’t take their terrorists back. We are holding them as prisoners. We’re tired of paying for them. And France? Trying to put a tax on our tech companies as a money grab???? These are the thing which make our POTUS angry.
So hop aboard Air Force One, stow your gear, and buckle your seatbelt. It’s going to be a wild few days, especially since the “majority” has flipped.
We sure hope Melania is going, we need a fashion break, and she is a perfect “Muse” for President Trump. She sees things no one else sees. Don’t ever underestimate Melania.
So, please say a little prayer for our President and team for a safe and productive trip.
And …… Don’t forget your shades, Biarritz, France is gorgeous, in the South of France, but on the Atlantic side. Sure hope Merkel forgets her bathing suit……. on the other hand…. Melania could OWN a bathing suit in Biarritz.
Here’s a few travel tips for Biarritz, France. I’m sure Churchmouse can chime in and help us with lodging and restaurant choices. In fact, we should all leave now, and we could meet Churchmouse there!
Just thinkin’, you know, Mar-A-Lago would be a prefect place for a G7 meeting.
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Great set up for G7.
Over used descriptor, but me thinks this G7 will be EPIC.
President Trump will have easy wins with UK, and while in Poland.
Merkel, Macaroni, their douche countries and EU will take some beatings from President Trump and his trade team.
Yes, the OTHER thread I’ve been waiting for tonight!
You’re right Kalbokalbs, but it has to be EPIC this time. The testosterone is BACK, baby!
Yep. The media here are already in a frenzy, can’t see to stir up lies fast enough.
That picture of Merde-Kuh makes me want to retch. Actually it’s a combo of Merkel and Erdogan (aireheadman), as he has a lot more power over here (and her) than most people realize, including authority over most of the mosques (where most of the trouble comes from).
Can’t wait to see what VSGPDJT does to Macaroon. First Boris puts his feet on Macaroon’s (dare I say) Ottoman, next VSGPDJT will make a stepstool of France and the EU 🙂
Now if only they could get rid of Draghi and the EZB (European Central Bank)…
You’re right, it is Erdogan!
… sounds good to me .. 🤨❤️🇺🇸❤️‼️‼️‼️👍
The fiancee got home tonight all PO’d. The news she listens to said that everything from China was going to have a 30% tariff — that, somehow, Americans would eat at retail. I’d been out-of-pocket for a large part of the day, so I’m, like, “wha?” [And, BTW, if VSGPOTUSDJT did slap on a 30% tariff at retail on everything Chinese — screw ’em. They own that for promising to end fentanyl shipments and buy soybeans and doing neither. There are DEAD OD’D AMERICANS because of Chinese lies. They may not have been my besties, but they were Americans exposed to the filth trafficked by China.]
Yeah, it went up from 25%, where it’s been for the past two years, to 30% beginning Oct 1.
FLEP did a snippet about the actual effect of those tariffs over the past two years. We ended up with 1.4% inflation. IOW, negligible.
I buy less and buy American or I buy from our friends. Why by stuff from a country that wants to do harm to us why hand them the shovel to burry us ?
No Chinese crap for me or my pets.
Actually, we would all be better off if American farmers would plant something other than soybeans. Soy is more pervasive than high fructose corn syrup and just as bad for us.
DP Amen
Looks like we dropped our bombs on the same night! 😉
Daughn: Atlantic Theater
Wolf: Pacific Theater
Too much winning, coming right up! 😎
Hey I’ve got the Arctic covered, just me, my B-29 and a white polar bear…
Colorist! https://www.quora.com/Why-does-a-polar-bears-fur-turn-green
This is a fascinating and education Q Tree you have, the great authors post and the spectrum of posters. Grateful to everyone. Superb combination of learning with a whole lot of laughs;-)
Not only does she WALK in those dang things…
She does PLANE STEPS and she DOESN’T LOOK DOWN.
The rumor is that she was born wearing them.
…. ooooouuuuuuuucccccccchhhhhhhh … 😩
Hardest part of being a beauty queen is not looking down when you walk down stairs. FLOTUS, is awesome.
AMEN! 😀
I’m chuckling …memories from Pageant days. After far too many contestants fell down the risers, the producers finally eliminated them, even though the ones in the back couldn’t be seen by the audience. LOL.
In fairness, you might give it a try one day, head up looking straight out, wearing heels and a form-fitted evening gown,,,with a little train in back! Not easy.
This is going to sound awful, but her feet are big enough to actually wear them. Some of us…the spikes are longer than our actual feet.
Melania is always a visual delight.
Pure class act in every sense…Mom, wife, FLOTUS, intelligent, graceful, stunningly beautiful…
I’m guessing she has a custom machine in her gym where she slips her feet into simulated high heels and does entire obstacle courses.
Wow that is incredible.
Flanked by two very distinguished gentleman in navy blue uniforms…
Then, BOOM white dress and IN COMMAND.
That is an awesome picture.
Why any man would want to be a cross dresser is beyond me, pantyhose, “those dang things”, on and on and on….
GORGEOUS … and I’ll bet she a tough cookie .. and very beautiful ultra feminine thought cookie .. 🤨❤️
This will be the 45th G7 Summit meeting.
Hmm…there’s that number 45.
😀😎
The event will be held at the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz, which is a Hyatt hotel.
https://www.hyatt.com/en-US/hotel/france/hotel-du-palais-biarritz/biqub
http://www.hotel-du-palais.com/bundles/serielhoteldupalais/images/slider/jour.jpg
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It doesn’t look very big…but it’s been there for a long time:
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I’m glad that FL Melania is going.
She is fluent en Français as I recall.
I read that they have kicked all the tourists out of town for the weekend, the town in on high lockdown…and it’s been announced that all Yellow Vest demonstrations are prohibited.
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You will laugh, when I was putting the thread together, I found a live webcam of the beach in Biarritz. I thought, ok, this will be great to include. At least we could see the weather, etc.
Nope, taken down. Probably for security.
This glimpse will probably be the closest I will ever get to Biarritz so I thank you for the armchair tour, Daughn, Churchmouse, etc. I eagerly await more tidbits of meetings, body language, fashion…and food!
Speaking of food…it’s dinner time there so we should be seeing more photos of the participants, etc. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I am waiting breathlessly to see what Angela Merkel will be wearing tonight! 😂😂
One comment about POTUS’ demeanor….he looked so serious both leaving the WH last night, getting off the plane in France and even with Macron. It’s rather unlike him, who seems to find something in every situation to enjoy or embrace. Maybe that will change as he meets with some of his allies…Abe, Boris, etc.
The agenda is almost a joke…but face to face meetings, including those of his behind scenes aides, is worthwhile. I somehow doubt he’s there for the foie gras!
Thank you for the EXCEPTIONAL article, Daughn! I am totally psyched for this G7 for all the reasons you provided.
Thank you, also, for the kind mention! 🙂
I have never been to Biarritz, although I wanted to go there when I was younger. The weather is a bit on the cool side, even during the summer, although they get heatwaves now and then.
Biarritz has a nice sandy beach.
In the 18th century, physicians said that the ocean waters there were good for one’s health.
The British royal family used to visit here in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The big brick palace was built for the last French empress, Eugenie. It is a luxury hotel today.
Victor Hugo discovered Biarritz in 1843 and said it was the most ‘pleasant and perfect’ place he’d ever visited.
For many centuries, it was a whaling town. That stopped in the 16th century, as whales migrated further north.
Although it is on the Atlantic Ocean in the Bay of Biscay, there is very little fishing there these days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biarritz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%B4tel_du_Palais
Food should be exceptional: seafood and foie gras! Foie gras is very good for the heart. People living in the southwest of France have very little heart disease. Most eat foie gras regularly, as this delicacy, humanely done these days, is one of the main food specialities of this region.
Churchmouse!!!!!!!!!!! I was hoping you would add snippets during these three days!
You are our overseas correspondent for Biarritz.
Love it!
Thanks so much! 🙂
On RMC (French talk radio station), there were a few discussions about the choice of Biarritz for the G7 meeting during the tourist season.
Panellists and callers wondered why Paris wasn’t chosen instead, as the capital is always empty during August.
It turns out, one talk show host said, that Emmanuel Macron is a good friend of the MP of the region, Francois Bayrou, therefore, Biarritz was chosen.
No one goes to Paris in August. We leave for the seashore. Way too hot and sticky in town. Don’t even need air conditioning on the coast.
Which is why August is the best time to be in Paris! 🙂
Most places there have AC these days. The G7 guys and gals wouldn’t have to worry about sweating.
Melania’s Chanel armour in place for boarding…
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1169643/melania-trump-style-fashion-chanel-donald-france-G7-summit-pictures
Hello WSB … 😃🤚❤️‼️‼️
Good to see you .. ❤️
🌸💖🌸💖🌸💖🌸
So nice to see you, nikki!!!!!!
🤗❤️
❤️🌸
Chanel…not liking the boucle. Little black dress, or tweed, sure.
Time for Melania to show a little more skin. It’s summer, and if you’ve GOT IT then flaunt it.
Nothing too wild, of course, but our first lady is overly blessed when it comes to her physique.
She’s been looking too buttoned up, lately.
I don’t mind the buttoned up look. The hemlines are dropping this year, and the skin tight look is waning. I am so glad. Mrs. T can be a leader in how to make more modest looks work for everyone.
I feel she made the decision early on not to give the haters any more ammunition than necessary in regards to her wardrobe. Really, when you look back all the First Ladies were conservative, modest, tasteful in their public wardrobes…EXCEPT for our dear Michelle who desperately wanted to be a black Jackie Kennedy(and lord, she did try!) but ended up looking like a clown much of the time.
As a renown fashion critic (cough, cough), I can’t say I like some of her choices nor the fit, and I really can’t understand her apparent love for the trench coat look (reminds me too much of Michelle’s love for the boob belts and shrugs), but she does had a great eye for color and detail. Her best looks, IMO, are the bright, bold dresses like her last visit to Poland or even the simple one she wore deplaning in France.
She does us proud!
I believe FLOTUS wears these types of covers due to the air conditioning on the jet.
I like the fringe…
I love it when the ladies talk fashion. You see all these things that me being a fairly typically oblivious male would miss 😉
34? He’s still a child. 🙂
Wow, hard to think Miller is only 34yrs old. He’s going to have an incredible career.
Good writers only get better with age!!!
Stephen has a birthday on the same day as my oldest son 🙂
Happy birthday to your son!
What a hoot! You go, Stephen!
Our beautiful First Lady.
Here he go, the Eagle has landed!! ✈️ 🇺🇸 😍
WE….it’s early, need coffee ☕️☕️☕️
I’m just waking up!! Need MOAR covefefe.
Wow, Melania is wearing a PRETTY yellow dress!
Oohhh, our gorgeous FLOTUS is a vision, beautiful flowing high waisted yellow dress with small and large white circles filled with hot pink starbursts. Couldn’t see her shoes 👠 but I’m betting hot pink.😉
Saw comments elsewhere speculating that the yellow dress selected by FLOTUS may well be symbolic of the yellow vests protesters throughout France. Who knows, but our lovely First Lady is getting well known for her statements in her clothes.
Amen.
Good. Keep the press far away.
The press ought to be holed up at a “Worst Western”… and Acosta (if he’s there) in a doghouse outside…
In the stables … move the horses first so they don’t have to put up with them .. 🤨
.. the horses don’t …
Nails are done. Do I have time for foil lowlights? The hair with no pigment needs coverage.
Heck, Brigette got a whole facelift, a “refreshening” they called it, for the occasion.
hahahah ba zing !
I think in the roadworks trade, they call that a “slurry seal”…
(dodges flying steam rollers, tar-soaked brooms, and broken compacts [ 🙂 ])
Bwwaahhahaaa!
Hey!!!!!!!
Boris Johnson has a GIRLFRIEND!!!!!!!!!!!! Her name is Carrie Symonds. She’s pretty. (Still waiting on official divorce from his first wife but Boris and Carrie are living together in London).
Woohooo, we could have a wedding.
What a Bachelor’s Party that would be.
Here she is.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/style/1163551/Carrie-Symonds-Boris-Johnson-Carolyn-Bessette-Kennedy-wedding-dress-Meghan-Markle
daughn, KTHopkins said he new girlfriend helped him lose weight and had him cut his hair, as she was sure he was headed for PM.
good girl!
So, this is why he has shown up to the G7 alone. Odd man out.
Putin always travels solo…at least we do not see a companion at any public events.
Maybe if said companion does not look like Melania…
Ya’ know, coast of France, all that beachfront, scantily clad tourists…… we could see a few press people tie one on over the weekend. It would be hard to resist.
Trump is talking to Macron, now.
Well, Macron is talking to the press and the President is listening. Looks like they are at an outside table, cafe. Pretty scenery.
President talking now, recalling their personal relationship, dinner at the Eiffel Tower was great, blah, blah, blah…
G7 is wonderful, looking forward to talks. etc.
The USA hosts next year.
I’m thinking Mar-A-Lago is a perfect spot.
Homerun!
Mara Lago would be fantastic.
A twofer me thinks, as the MCM would lose their collective minds. …a Trump property.
LOLF for the likes of me.
https://twitter.com/michaelbeatty3/status/1165257907748737024
Video of arrival
https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1165259504352669696
Lunch, coffee…whatever would be boring with Macaroni. Skip the niceties. President Trump is ready for business.
Bwwhhaa, he does look bored.
https://twitter.com/ljcljf/status/1165253475447508992
OMG, I’m gonna puke.
You should see the agenda for the G7.
President Trump is going to have a fit.
What a bunch of virtue signaling crap!!
1. The entire venue has “friendly reusable water canteens for all journalists”, promoting no more single use plastic.
2. Programs on “Our Ocean, Our Future”, when the citizens of the G7 are already Marine conscious, they need to be talking to China/India/Bangladesh.
3. Women, women, women, they want ALL women in the workforce so the state can take care of the kids?
4. Hydrogen powered bicycles – to scoot around.
5. Solar Panels brought in, just for virtue signaling, taking up a whole field outside a historic hotel.
6. Big program on “How to do business in Africa”, but only for women. Noting women are at a disadvantage for loans, 42 billion less, but does not tell you the overwhelming number of male applicants.
Macron let loose a bunch of eco-fascists/third wave feminists, and they are all OCD. I may lose my mind by the time this is over. I haven’t seen ONE thing yet on reducing opioids from China, which is killing people NOW. Nothing on economics reducing taxes/promoting ease of business.
Look at this – and the smugness, patting themselves on the back, makes me sick.
Hydrogen-powered everything, almost. Maybe they should be made by a company named “Hindenburg”…
The stupid, it burns…
I am a big fan of hydrogen as a fuel source.
Of idiot eco-nuts, nut so much!
Hydrogen bikes are just dumb.
Sounds like twinkle toes contributed to the agenda. PC BS.
Back to business, please.
LOOK at this crap. It’s already against the law to discriminate based on gender.
I’m looking forward to what the “Fab Four” will do with this agenda:)
It’s pious. It hangs in my throat and I want to spit it out. Can’t imagine what PDJT is thinking.
What a waste of time.
The G7 does not want to open the door to any economic or meaningful negotiation because they know they loose.
So they peddle the soft crap that is up to each individual country to deal with not on a global stage. They need to bring that to muslim countries or maybe it is for their muslim pollution? The laws should be already on the book so why are they not enforcing in their own country.
Ahhh yes they like to tell others what to do like conserving energy but they are the biggest consumers. (S
Corection: Population instead pollution but on the other hand….?
This is what I HOPE our POTUS was thinking!!!
It’s like Macron turned loose all the eco-fascists and third wave feminists, but they’re all OCD, and throwing up on each other.
I’m hoping the G7 is at Mar-a-Lago next year, with non-recyclable plastic straws (or, better yet, the TRUMP straws), completely non/anti-vegan menu (Paleo, anyone?). Bacon at every meal. Diesel-powered golf carts to get around (if they even make such a thing), and all manner of acoutrements to throw wrenches in the deep state and SJW snowflake agenda…
Funny Macron doesn’t seem to have any problem delving out equal policies of beatings and physical punishment to yellow jacket demonstrators regardless of gender without consideration for human rights. Why would he think that the POTUS or any of the World would believe him now?
Ahhhh, so NOW to be a proper communist, you have to have a climate responsible event.
I could make a fortune on this idea.
I need to buy a bunch of solar panels and rent them out to events in Hollywood. That way, all the actors could let their guest see how “environmentally responsible” they are, and pat them on the back. Ahhh the nobility of it all.
No need to plug them in, move them out when the event is over…..
Maybe with a bit of clever rewiring, you could make them light up 😀
Haven’t heard much lately from St. Greta the Greenhearted lately… wonder if she is now little Greta, the green-visaged, learning why people prefer flying to sailing (except for sport, perhaps)….
Btw, what they’re saying now about St. Greta the Greenhearted is, if the boat sinks, she can walk the rest of the way…
(I still like the comment “but what will they do if she runs over an endangered whale or something…”)…
Ha! That’s great Daughn and your burning them on Twitter is cracking me up. 😆
Hmmm. Are these the same presstitutes that called Øbozo the “Black Messiah”?????
And the photographers always put a halo around his head!
The media cannot take a joke and have no humor. I enjoy humor and appreciate it 🙂
Love my President 🙂
Jeb: “But I was supposed to be the chosen one!”
HRC: “No I am supposed to be the chosen one!”
Trump: [looks to the sky] “I’m the chosen one.”
Funny thing, too, and maybe part of VSGPDJT’s thinking, is that the presstitutes will likely need to do a little research to find out who “The Chosen One” is, and background about it.
Sort of “drive by” evangelism…
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1165279813072031745?s=20
He’s right! So many great things! PDJT is being relected, and Macron is being replaced by Le Pen!!!
Ha! Talk to the hand!
Give ‘Em Hell Boris!
Transparency is wonderfully refreshing!!!
I’m sure he is.
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U.S. Thinks Macron Twisting G-7 to Hurt Trump, Win Favor at Home
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-24/u-s-thinks-macron-twisting-g-7-to-hurt-trump-win-favor-at-home
President Trump knows what is going on…and is a few steps ahead…as MOAR traps are sprung on EU weenies.
YES he already fired a HUGE warning shot across the bow…
China Tariffs 30%
Looking forward to auto tariffs on EU, after US/UK sign trade agreement. Sure to get merkel and macaroni attention.
Auto tariffs are a Dec. of War in Germany 😉
Good by me. Germany has earned some pain in the near future for their stonewalling attitude towards BREXIT, heavy handed policies against smaller EU countries, not paying 2% to NATO, energy / pipeline agreements with Russia, terrible treatment towards President Trump / America. P!ss on Germany.
Tired of countries abusing America via trade, military security…
Merkel should be on her knees begging for mercy.
Ya! But me thinks, no consideration for merkel, macaroni, their countries or EU cabal. Each of them have consistently challenged President Trump, screwed America, stonewalled BREXIT…on and on.
Yes.
We want our money back.
Cash, please! We’ll send planes…just have it on pallets waiting.
Crisp new Benjamin’s…;-)
It sidelines talking points away from dealing with sanctions concerning China. Now who do we know is trying to do business with the dragon???
So petty and small
News roundup has been posted if interested.
Thank you, FLEP!
President Trump and First Lady Melania arrive at the G7 Summit dinner in Biarritz France. The dinner event is being held at Phare de Biarritz, a mid-19th century light house with panoramic views of the French coast.
https://twitter.com/baba9773/status/1165362153504813056?s=21
Another wardrobe change for Melania. 🙂
https://twitter.com/WhiteHouse_Fash/status/1165329323806666756
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ECwys6mXoAANLH2?format=jpg&name=medium
Nevermind.
Let’s see if this works:
Unusual.
Quiet meetings with Boris, Duda…? Surely President Trump and his trade team have plans. Me thinks.
Just read the EU President Tusk stated at a press conference, shortly before PM Johnson arrived, they would block any efforts for UK to leave the EU. And, SD thinks there will be a organized effort to keep PM and POTUS separated during the summit not to give appearance of unity between them. Thus, the puzzling, unnecessary, unscheduled lunch requested by Macron that apparently accomplished nothing.
Petty little games…you really have to wonder who thinks these things up.
IMO, Dora post above indicates opportunities for President Trump to not be managed by EU. Dinner and pursue meetings as he wishes…Boris… Is Salvini there? Duda, or is that when he gets to Poland in a couple days?
Poland not there. Have no seen Salvini yet.
Nor Abe, either.
The fantastic four are.
No, Salvini isn’t there but rather the PM who just resigned, Conte. Poland is not in the G7. I’m sure POTUS will receive a very warm welcome in Poland!
They know.
The alliance could turn everything on it’s end.
Abe, Salvini, Trump and Johnson
are far more powerful
than
Merkel, Macron, and Trudeau.
And Tusk is screwed.
Oh yea!
Perhaps we are watching increasing EU relevance continue to slip away…to Nationalism. Each nations interests, rather than a cabal under Germany and France overbearing wishes;-)
Pleased France is hosting this goat rope with, IMO, France and Germany coming out on the losing end. US., UK, Poland, Italy…winning;-)
Yes, I am counting on wins that have not been announced. But, I believe!
Merkel is not well, incredibly weak and on her way out.
Macron has what, a 29% approval rating?
And Trudeau, with his ethics revelations, he should have resigned, but won’t.
And Tusk, is watching his kingdom fall apart as the people rise up to defeat him.
Freedom is spreading.
😉
The biggest problem is that the 4 ppl mentioned above are so brainwashed and out of touch with the World that they don’t know that they are completely irrelevant. Pay their NATO commitments first, stop destroying their own economies by chasing investment away with unrealistic demands that have nothing to do with trade, and build their economies on their own ingenuity and efforts rather then sucking on the hind teet of the US, then they will have standing and creditability to express their virtuous ideologies. In the meantime, shut up and get some pants that are not so tight.
Although Trump is quite capable of holding his own without support from anyone else, it’s good to see that the idealogues for globalism are fewer in number.