Trump Economic Adviser Ties G-7 Pullout to North Korea Meeting.

(Kudlow sucking up to trump, who loves him more than ever now.)

'President Trump’s top economic adviser said on Sunday that Mr. Trump had pulled out of a joint statement with allies at the Group of 7 meeting over the weekend because a “betrayal” by the Canadian prime minister had threatened to make Mr. Trump appear weak before his summit meeting on Tuesday with North Korea’s leader.

The adviser, Larry Kudlow, said that Mr. Trump had no choice but to take the action after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a news conference that Canada would not be pushed around by the United States on trade.

Mr. Trudeau “stabbed us in the back,” Mr. Kudlow said, by making his statement after the president had already agreed to sign the joint statement and had left for his historic meeting with Kim Jong-un in Singapore.

“We joined the communiqué in good faith,” Mr. Kudlow said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “You just don’t behave that way, O.K.? It’s a betrayal.”'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/10/us/politics/trump-kudlow-g7.html?