Europe
G7 leaders mock Putin in jokes about stripping
off
By Guardian
Nigeria
26 June
2022 |
1:28 pm
https://guardian.ng/news/g7-leaders-mock-putin-in-jokes-about-stripping-off/
World
leaders mocked Russian President Vladimir Putin’s tough-man image at a G7 lunch
in Germany on Sunday, joking about whether they should strip down to
shirtsleeves — or even less.
“Jackets
on? Jackets off? Do we take our coats off?” British Prime Minister Boris
Johnson asked as he sat down at the table in Bavaria’s picturesque Elmau
Castle, where Chancellor Olaf Scholz was hosting the summit of seven powerful
democracies.
The leaders
— from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States and
the European Union — pondered the dilemma.
Canada’s
prime minister, Justin Trudeau, suggested they wait for the official picture
before disrobing but then Johnson quipped “We have to show that we’re tougher
than Putin” and the joke kept rolling.
“We’re
going to get the bare-chested horseback riding display,” Trudeau said,
referring to Putin’s infamous 2009 photo-op of himself riding shirtless on a
horse.
“Horseback
riding is the best,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said,
without apparently weighing in on the clothing issue itself.
Johnson
interjected: “We’ve got to show them our pecs.”
The leaders posed — jackets on — for photos before reporters were hustled out of the room, leaving the sartorial debate behind closed do
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