Trump Swaps Low Chair With Carney at G7, Joking Over the Room’s Lowest Seat
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Updated · The Daily Beast · Jun 17
Trump Swaps Low Chair With Carney at G7, Joking Over the Room’s Lowest Seat
3 articles · Updated · The Daily Beast · Jun 17
Summary
At a G7 meeting in Evian-les-Bains on Wednesday, Donald Trump traded chairs with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney after complaining his seat was too low.
Open microphones caught Trump asking for help and grumbling, “I had the lowest chair in the whole room,” after struggling with the chair mechanism beside OpenAI’s Sam Altman and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis.
Carney defused the moment with a joke — “I’ve got the general’s chair” — before offering his own seat, which Trump accepted, saying, “Oh, that’s much better.”
The episode echoed a September U.N. summit incident in which Trump angrily blamed organizers over a stopped escalator and faulty microphone, later posting a 357-word complaint on Truth Social.