Because, you know, Emmanuel is not going to be there very long. And, you know, there's no longevity there,' says US president - Anadolu Ajansı

French President Emmanuel Macron has proposed holding a meeting in Paris on Thursday between the G7 countries, Russia and Denmark, US President Donald Trump said. Trump said the proposal was outlined in private text messages exchanged between the two leaders,

The US president mocked Macron’s political longevity and shared screenshots of the French leader’s private messages suggesting the meeting.

Emmanuel Macron has sent a “private message” to Donald Trump offering to organise a G7 summit in Paris on Thursday (January 22, 2026) in which Russia could be invited on the sidelines, the French President’s entourage confirmed.

For years, Emmanuel Macron has used friendship to temper President Trump’s most impulsive moves. It’s unclear whether that can still work.

President Donald Trump loves the spotlight, and his latest move has grabbed media attention once again. Trump shared a message from French President Emmanuel Macron questioning Trump’s actions on Greenland,

If Macron sent that message Monday — a senior French official told POLITICO that appeared to be the case — he would have been proposing a meeting that directly clashes with an emergency EU leaders’ summit Thursday evening in Brussels, which may project a sense of disunity in the bloc.

The "Board of Peace" was an idea initially proposed by Trump last September as part of his plan to end the war in Gaza, although the initiative now seems to be aimed at mediating global conflicts more broadly.