Donald Trump had a rather unusual complaint during his meeting with tech and world leaders at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, and it was about a chair. The 80-year-old President’s microphone picked up what he was saying, and rather than being about the ongoing discussions, it seems that his primary complaint was the height of his seat.
Donald Trump complains about chair at G7 summit
The POTUS was caught in a loop during his recent meeting with tech and world leaders at the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, because of his low chair. As discussions went on between the prominent leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, and the U.K., he seemingly struggled with a low chair.
Seated between OpenAI boss Sam Altman and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis, Donald Trump was seen struggling with this unexpected crisis: it seemed that his seat was too low. Despite his best efforts, he was unable to rectify the seat height. “Did you get it up?” Trump was caught saying with his mic on as he slapped Altman’s arm and demanded his assistance. (via Daily Beast).
“Look at yourself in a picture, and you say, ‘What happened? What happened?’ I had the lowest chair in the whole room,” Trump could be heard saying again.
Ultimately, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney stepped up to help out the Republican leader. “Donald, Donald, Donald. I’ve got the general’s chair,” he said. “You know what, it’s the U.N.,” Carney joked, offering Trump his chair, “I’m kidding, I’m kidding.”
Donald Trump responded while taking Carney’s chair, “That’s funny. That’s very funny…Oh, that’s much better.” Meanwhile, French President Emmanuel Macron was seen engaged in business, unbothered by the inconvenience that the US President faced.
Interestingly, Trump previously faced a similar inconvenience at a U.N. summit in September when a faulty escalator stopped as he and his wife, Melania Trump, stepped onto it. “If the First Lady wasn’t in great shape, she would’ve fallen,” he later said about this.
