Breaking News:Trump Issues Midnight Announcement, Dashes Iranian Hopes, Confirms Something Horrible Is On Its Way..See More 👇

It’s unusual to see French President Emmanuel Macron getting smacked around hard by someone who’s not his wife, but that’s precisely what happened at a little past midnight Eastern Time on Tuesday.

That’s when President Donald Trump — who returned from the Group of Seven summit in Alberta, Canada early because of events in the Middle East — dashed a statement Macron made regarding Trump returning to Washington, D.C., to offer a ceasefire to Israel and Iran.

Speaking to reporters at the G7 at Kananaskis after Trump’s announcement, Macron sounded hopeful and said that any attempt for Israel to overthrow Iran’s theocratic state would be a “strategic error.”

“If the United States can achieve a ceasefire, that’s a very good thing,” he said, according to the Times of Israel.

He went on to say that there “is indeed an offer to meet and exchange. An offer was made especially to get a ceasefire and to then kickstart broader discussions. We have to see now whether the sides will follow.”

This sounded sensible enough; after all, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt had said this was the reason he was leaving the conference, and Trump warned Iranians to get out of Tehran if they could.

President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Much was accomplished, but because of what’s going on in the Middle East, President Trump will be leaving tonight after dinner with Heads of State,” Leavitt wrote in an X post.

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Trump, meanwhile, was somewhat more colorful about the reasons behind it:

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He was also a bit more blunt when he corrected Macron in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

“Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a ‘cease fire’ between Israel and Iran,” he said on Truth Social.

Wrong! He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that. Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong. Stay Tuned!”

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Add to that the fact that Trump requested the National Security Council meet him in the White House situation room upon his return, according to Reuters, and it’s clear that this isn’t about making peace.

The larger point here is the apparent expectations of the rest of the G7 — namely, that Trump deliver on a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.