French President Emmanuel Macron has fired back at comments from US President Donald Trump, as the pair offer differing opinions on why Trump left the G7 summit in Canada early. The US government had justified Trump's early departure from the summit in Kananaskis because of the Middle East crisis.

What began with a handshake evolved into turbulence at 33,000 feet as one of diplomacy's oddest relationships took another strange turn. The political chemistry that once defined the Trump–Macron dynamic — immortalized by a famously tense 29-second handshake in 2017 — was nowhere to be seen in midair Tuesday when U.