We don’t know if Vladimir Putin will like it. The great world leaders, gathered in Bavaria for the G7 summit, had fun on Sunday June 26 to joke about the virile image willingly displayed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The one who opened the “hostilities” is the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson: “Do we keep the jackets? Do we take them off?”he asks himself, while he is sitting down at the work table.
Around him are already where Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, is already Joe Biden, President of the United States, Fumio Kishida, Prime Minister of Japan, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, Charles Michel, President of the European Council, Mario Draghi, Italian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister and Emmanuel Macron, the French President.
The G7 conversations during the photo shoot also focus on Putin.
Johnson: In jackets? No jackets? Need to undress?
Trudeau: Let’s wait for them to take a picture.
Johnson: We all have to show that we’re cooler than Putin. pic.twitter.com/wRm3hMZTvl—mustapha hida (@mustaphah64) June 26, 2022
The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, then suggests waiting for the official photo to drop the jacket. Boris Johnson raises: “we have to show that we are stronger than Putin.” A joke that inspired the Canadian Prime Minister who referred to a cult sequence by Vladimir Putin. “We are going to be entitled to the bare-chested riding demonstration”, adds Justin Trudeau. He then refers to a famous photo shoot of Vladimir Putin on horseback shirtless in 2009.
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“Horseback riding is the best”soberly replies Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, without apparently commenting on the question of clothing itself. “We have to show them our pecs”, insists Boris Johnson. It was finally in costume, having simply removed the ties, that the seven leaders took their place on the podium for the traditional family photo.