{"id":5687,"date":"2018-06-09T07:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T07:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box5917.temp.domains\/~iriacom\/\/news\/?p=5687"},"modified":"2018-06-12T10:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T10:50:44","slug":"angela-merkels-photo-sums-up-donald-trumps-g7-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/angela-merkels-photo-sums-up-donald-trumps-g7-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel\u2019s photo sums up Donald Trump\u2019s G7 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Trump, Merkel, Macron: the G7 photos worth a thousand words<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The photograph released by German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s office about the G7 leaders\u2019 meeting this past weekend seemed to perfectly sum up the state of affairs which is President Donald Trump versus the world.<\/p>\n<p>The image featured a series of world leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel,\u00a0French President Emmanuel Macron and\u00a0Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.<\/p>\n<p>The image depicts a \u201cspontaneous meeting\u201d featuring the German Chancellor in an assertive pose with both hands firmly on a table as she addresses an emotionless US President.<\/p>\n<p>The image is said to perfectly capture the mood at the Quebec summit, overshadowed by disagreements over Mr Trump\u2019s decision to impose higher tariffs on aluminium and steel.<\/p>\n<p>The tension at the summit was summed up by this photo of members that looked like a Renaissance painting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When Art History comes for you. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kCeq9nLqiy\">pic.twitter.com\/kCeq9nLqiy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cameron Bailey (@cameron_tiff) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cameron_tiff\/status\/1005782143778209793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s spokesman Steffen Seibert who tweeted the photo told reporters in Berlin Monday that his office \u201cis connecting no interpretation\u201d with the picture.<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"4\">He added: \u201cThis is one scene from the discussions. The photographer had only very brief access to these discussions, and so we only had very few pictures, which were all very similar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">Seibert noted that \u201cother photographers captured other scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"5\">German journalist, Fabian Reinbold, tweeted a composite of photographs released of the discussions by delegations from six of the G7 nations.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">One scene &#8211; four different perspectives <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/G7?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#G7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1) by Merkel\u2018s team<br \/>\n2) by Macron\u2019s team<br \/>\n3) by Conte\u2019s team<br \/>\n4) by Trump\u2019s team <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q3qaSfaiQS\">pic.twitter.com\/q3qaSfaiQS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabian Reinbold (@fabreinbold) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fabreinbold\/status\/1005533097549598726?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump, Merkel, Macron: the G7 photos worth a thousand words The photograph released by German Chancellor Angela [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[124,62,1,125],"tags":[24,357,53,71,7],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-europe","category-news","category-united-states","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-politics","tag-u-s"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Donald-Trump-with-Angela-Merkel-and-other-G7-leaders-at-the-G7-summit-in-Canada.jpg?fit=690%2C370&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7jJWb-1tJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5695,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions\/5695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}