President Donald Trump on Monday used his first public appearance at the 2025 Group of Seven summit to revive a years-old complaint about the group’s response to Russia’s 2014 invasion of Crimea and attack host country Canada’s former head of government during a bilateral meeting with the current prime minister.

Donald Trump has claimed that kicking Russia out of the G7 was a “very big mistake” which helped pave the way to the ongoing Ukraine war. Russia was part of the “group of eight” (G8), an intergovernmental political forum,

President Donald Trump kick offs his time at the G7 summit in the Canadian Rockies with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.