{"id":1559,"date":"2026-06-16T20:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2026-06-16T20:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:44:47","slug":"meloni-quit-smoking-notorious-bike-hater-trump-gets-gifted-a-bike-macron-loses-his-watch-hot-mic-moments-from-the-g7-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1559","title":{"rendered":"Meloni quit smoking; notorious bike-hater Trump gets gifted a bike; Macron loses his watch: Hot mic moments from the G7 summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As world leaders made their way into conference rooms at a lakeside resort, microphones set up for their weighty discussions about war and trade often caught off-the-cuff banter.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1557\">Filling up your car won\u2019t feel normal until next summer, S&amp;P says<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Meloni quit smoking<\/h4>\n<p>Italian Prime Minister\u00a0Giorgia Meloni\u2019\u00a0s smoking habits were the subject of a hot-mic moment on Tuesday. Asked by German Chancellor\u00a0Friedrich Merz\u00a0if she had already had a cigarette that morning, Meloni revealed that she hadn\u2019t smoked \u201csince the first of May.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Her turn against tobacco prompted enthusiastic congratulations from leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom, Japan and the European Union. Meloni raised her hands in celebration. Meanwhile, Canadian Prime Minister\u00a0Mark Carney\u00a0had a question for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you have a patch?\u201d Carney asked, grabbing his own arm.<\/p>\n<h4>Sports talk includes \u2018Allez les blues!\u2019<\/h4>\n<p>With the\u00a0World Cup\u00a0underway in the United States, Mexico and Canada, soccer naturally became a fallback of discussion.<\/p>\n<p>As leaders gathered for lunch, French President\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0and others weighed in. Someone shouted \u201cAllez les bleus,\u201d the cheer for the French team. Another leader can be heard talking about the recent Champions League victory by Paris-Saint Germain.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>U.S. President Donald Trump\u00a0turned attention to the\u00a0UFC cage-match event\u00a0he hosted at the White House on Sunday. Trump, who sat ringside on his 80th birthday, spoke glowingly about\u00a0Dana White, the CEO of UFC.<\/p>\n<p>At another point in the day, U.K. Prime Minister\u00a0Keir Starmer\u00a0effused about\u00a0Cape Verde\u2019s surprise 0-0 draw\u00a0against World Cup champion Spain. \u201cQuite remarkable, I have to say,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Trump makes a cryptic Greenland reference<\/h4>\n<p>In a moment of intrigue, Trump was caught on microphone talking with European Council President\u00a0Ant\u00f3nio Costa.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou understand?\u201d Trump said before pausing and looking squarely at Costa. \u201cGreenland.\u201d The start and end of the conversation was unclear.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1555\">\u2018Making China the elephant in the room\u2019: The G7 confronts its reliance on U.S. AI and Chinese energy supply chains, experts say<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>European politicians have been outraged by\u00a0Trump\u2019s threats to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of Denmark.<\/p>\n<h4>Macron loses track of time \u2014 literally<\/h4>\n<p>Later, Trump added some levity after Macron appeared to have left his watch behind when he departed the group\u2019s working lunch. Carney drew attention to it, saying, \u201cHe\u2019s left his watch here. We\u2019ve got his watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive me it if he left, gimme,\u201d Trump chimed in, drawing laughs from the group.<\/p>\n<h4>Trump gets a jersey for his birthday, and a bike<\/h4>\n<p>The day brought a few instances of gift-giving diplomacy.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Macron gave all seven of his counterparts personalized bicycles to promote the Cycling World Championships scheduled next year in the French Alps, according to David Lappartient, president of the Union Cycliste Internationale, on social media.<\/p>\n<p>There was no hot mic moment to detect the reaction of Trump, who is not known to bike and has joked about doing minimal exercise beyond regular golf outings.<\/p>\n<p>Merz, who recently sparred with Trump over the war in Iran, presented Trump with a German national team soccer jersey bearing Trump\u2019s name and the number 47. Trump raised it and smiled for a photo before setting it aside.<\/p>\n<p>Merz posted a photo of the exchange on social media and offered a pointed message: \u201cAfter all, we\u2019re on the same team.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>Binkley reported from Washington. AP writer Sam McNeil contributed to this report from Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/crosscountrymovingteams.com\/?p=1553\">Anthropic\u2019s Fable fiasco leaves the door open for open-source AI, particularly cheaper models from China<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fallback of conversations for leaders at the G7 summit naturally fell to the World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-donald-trump"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Meloni quit smoking; notorious bike-hater Trump gets gifted a bike; 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