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France Reportedly Delays G7 Summit To Avoid Clash With White House MMA Event On Trump’s Birthday

France has announced a delay of the G7 Summitt, for hilarious reasons.

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There’s a good bet that “France delays G7 to avoid clash with White House cage fighting” is not a headline that could have happened under any president besides Donald Trump. But that headline became a reality on Friday, when Politico’s EU edition made it a reality.

While France had been planning to host the annual summit on June 14, President Emmanuel Macron announced that the summit would take place two days later, at Evian-les-Bains on Lake Geneva. That’s because June 14 is Trump’s 80th birthday, and he has announced that an MMA event will take place that day on the South Lawn of the White House.

The G7 will now begin on May 15 and continue through the 17th. The French publication Le Messenger appears to have first noticed the potential conflict between Trump’s MMA fight and the originally scheduled dates of the G7 meeting.

The French president, this week, announced some priorities that will be discussed at the meeting, upon France accepting the rotating presidency of the G7 organization.

“At a time when the global economy is threatened by profound imbalances, I am making their reduction a priority of the French G7 Presidency,” Macron said. “Predatory competition, industrial overcapacity, underinvestment, excessive debt and deregulation, ebbing global solidarity and low private investment in developing countries all threaten the prosperity and economic stability of nations, leading to major tensions and undermining the spirit of cooperation between peoples. They lead to protectionist isolationism to the detriment of all, and sow the seeds of financial, economic and geopolitical crises.”

There were some shocked reactions to the news of MMA affecting the G7 schedule.

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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