Mike Blanchfield
German Chancellor Angela Merkel, President Donald Trump, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau participate in a G7 summit working session, Friday, June 8, 2018, in Charlevoix, Canada. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Evan Vucci
January 18, 2021 - 1:00 AM
OTTAWA - During his only supper on Canadian soil, Donald Trump told Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and their fellow G7 leaders that their table was incomplete. Come 2020, the American president promised to fix that by inviting Russia's Vladimir Putin to his G7 dinner.
It was June 2018, four years since Russia had been expelled from what was then the G8 after the Kremlin's invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula in February 2014.