OAN Staff Sophia Flores
6:42 PM – Wednesday, June 3, 2026
President Donald Trump has announced he will travel to France to partake in the G7 summit.
On Wednesday, the president took to Truth Social to reveal his plans to travel to Évian, France, immediately following the UFC World Championship fights on the South Lawn of the White House.
White House insiders indicate that the president will focus the majority of his bilateral and group sessions on three distinct initiatives:
- Tying U.S. Aid Directly to Trade Concessions: Moving away from traditional geopolitical philanthropy, the administration plans to use American financial and security aid packages as leverage. Under this framework, foreign assistance will be conditional on recipient nations reducing tariffs and eliminating regulatory hurdles for American exports.
- The Global Expansion of U.S. Artificial Intelligence: Following the rollout of the White House’s domestic AI Action Plan, Trump will pressure G7 nations to integrate American-developed AI infrastructure into their domestic systems. The policy seeks to lock in global market dominance for U.S. tech giants while actively lobbying European leaders to roll back digital regulations that could stymie American innovation.
- China’s Supply Chain Dominance: Accelerating his administration’s “Pax Silica” strategy, Trump will lobby for a coordinated Western decoupling from Chinese mining and processing pipelines. Amid a global surge in demand driven by AI data centers and defense manufacturing, the administration wants member nations to co-finance alternative supply chains for essential critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and refined copper.
The 52nd annual summit is scheduled to take place from June 15th –17th. It will mark the second time the gathering has been hosted in the lakeside resort town and the first face-to-face meeting between President Trump and other world leaders since the outbreak of the U.S.-Iran conflict.
Core G7 members expected to attend the summit include French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Representing the European Union will be European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
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