Macron woos Trump to G7 summit with Versailles palace dinner. Will he bite?

French President Emmanuel Macron has invited US President ⁠Donald Trump to a ⁠sumptuous dinner at the ornate Palace of ⁠Versailles the day after a G7 summit in mid-June, although it remains unclear if Trump will attend either event, sources said.France is the host of this year’s G7, with a leaders’ summit in the lakeside resort of Evian-les-Bains at the foot ‌of the French Alps scheduled for June 15-17 – dates that Macron has already moved to accommodate a mixed martial arts event Trump is hosting at the White House on his 80th birthday on June 14.The G7 is a bloc consisting of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The EU is also represented within the G7.Trump’s relationship with many G7 members has grown increasingly strained over his war with Iran among other issues, notably in openly scathing comments regarding British Prime Minister ⁠Keir Starmer’s early March offer of military support.He has also repeatedly lambasted NATO, of which all ‌G7 members except Japan are part, over its response to the conflict.People visit the Palace of ⁠Versailles in France. Photo: AFPThe sources said it was not yet clear if Trump would be at Evian-les-Bains ‌let alone Versailles, to which they said none of the other G7 leaders have ⁠been invited.A Trump no-show ⁠would be a major embarrassment for Macron and would cast a long shadow over the G7 at a time the ‌US administration is openly sceptical over the value of such multilateral get-togethers.Macron’s invitation to Trump is for a pomp-filled event at Versailles, a ‌gilded ‌17th-century palace built outside Paris by Louis XIV, that would capitalise on the two nations’ shared history ‌ahead of the US’ 250th anniversary celebrations on July 4, two sources said. Macron shrugs off Trump remarks about his marriage