President Donald Trump did not appear willing to extend his current trip to Evian, France, for the G7 summit to attend the official signing of the memorandum of understanding with Iran on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. “Well, it depends,” Trump told reporters during a bilateral meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday. “JD is coming in for it. He was originally going to do it.” Vice President JD Vance remained in Washington as Trump attended the G7 summit this week. Vance spent Monday morning defending the 60-day preliminary ceasefire extension on the morning network shows, while the president is expected to continue discussions on Iran and the Ukraine war in France.
“I’ll probably be gone by then,” Trump said about whether he could stay in Europe longer than expected. “We’re having dinner in a day and a half, right. We’re going to be staying quite late, so I may be involved, I may not, but JD was coming in for that specifically.”
A senior U.S. official confirmed that Trump and Vance signed the MOU, along with Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, in a call with reporters Monday morning.
Specific details of the MOU have not yet been released to the public, but Trump told reporters that the Strait of Hormuz “is already partially opened” and downplayed reports that Iran could secure billions of dollars released.
