Striding into the room nearly an hour late, an ultra–confident President Trump, fresh off the diplomatic high of his early stage Iran deal, bluntly announced to the room of gathered G7 summit leaders, ‘I’m the boss.’

The bold, characteristically brash declaration on Wednesday morning in Evian–les–Bains, France, was met with a chorus of laughter from the other heads of state.

The President’s swaggering entrance kicked off the third and final day of the high–stakes summit, turning his tardiness into a deliberate display of political leverage.

Trump did not explain the reason he was late.

There was notably a seat–warming that preceded the entrance.

Before Trump’s delayed arrival, French President Emmanuel Macron had already called the meeting to order, forcing US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to fill in and sit behind a name card reading ‘Trump’ until the President finally took over.

Trump arrived following his punchline as he strolled over to his seat beside Emmanuel Macron.

The French President offered his signature firm handshake, greeting the late arrival with a polite, ‘Hello! How are you?’

Even though President Trump had praised foreign reporters at several bilateral meetings to their countries’ leaders, calling his own American media ‘mean,’ he asked them if they would like to stay for the meeting.

‘It’s okay with me,’ Trump remarked, before the French media staff ushered them out of the room.

The White House Rapid Response team leaned directly into the moment Trump arrived, creating a viral clip on X with the caption: ‘I’m the boss’ – @POTUS arrives for a working session at the G7 summit in France.

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