U.S. President Donald Trump, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a press conference during the G7 Summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, June 17, 2026. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein
President Donald Trump had a press conference at the G7 in France, where he appeared to be rambling to such a degree that MS NOW cut from the press conference to refer to him as "incoherent."
Deadline's Ted Johnson commented on X that MS NOW's Alecia Mendez broke into Trump's speech, calling him "a rambling, incoherent president of the United States attempting to take a victory lap over his page-and-a-half Iran agreement."
One of Trump's bizarre comments included, "When you see young men walking around without legs, that's [Qasem] Soleimani."
Trump also acknowledged that they would be releasing money to Iran, which he has criticized former President Barack Obama for doing.
"The unfreezing, that's the easy one to answer. We have taken a lot of their money. And we have their money. We have taken a lot of their money. It's not our money. It's their money. And we froze it. At a certain point in time, I guess we're gonna have to give it back. You know that if we didn't give it back, nobody would ever invest in the dollar again," Trump said.
Trump bragged that "drugs are down by water 97 percent. And over 60 percent we're down. And now we're going to go and focus on the land. And they come through Mexico. Mexico has lost control of their country. The cartels run Mexico. And it's sad. And the president is a very good woman, but she's a very scared woman. The drug cartels are totally running Mexico. It's not even close."
He then swatted at a fly, saying, "I wanted to get that little sucker. But I missed. I hate missing."
The rambling presser prompted a lot of comments from those observing the press conference.
Filmmaker Steven DeKnight remarked, "Trump in the G7 presser is rambling, delusional, and completely disconnected from reality. 'The word affordability is a fake word made up by the Democrats.' What a pathetic old man. If you still support this moral and ethical black hole, you deserve the pain he’s causing."
Retired soldier Robert Clark wrote, "Trump speaking about the Iran Agreement after the G7 Summit on live TV. Rambling, delusional, demented word salad. Flanking Trump, [Secretary of Commerce Howard] Lutnick and [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio look very uncomfortable and are staring aimlessly away."
The News Agents, Lewis Goodall, called Trump "largely incomprehensible in a rambling set of remarks at the G7."