German chancellor Angela Merkel speaks to US president Donald Trump during the second day of the G7 meeting in Charlevoix city of La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada, June 9, 2018. ReutersLa Malbaie (Quebec): German chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday created a storm on the internet when she shared a picture from the G7 summit held in Canada on her official Instagram account.
The picture that has gone viral on social media shows Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron staring down US president Donald Trump. While Merkel, in the picture, can be seen standing behind a table with both hands pressed firmly into its surface atop some documents, Trump with his arms crossed stares back.
Merkel captioned the picture: "Day two of the G-7 summit in Canada: spontaneous meeting between two working sessions." Also seen in the picture are Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe with his arms crossed and Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton among others.
Taken by Jezco Denzel, a photographer working with the German government and winner of a category award in this year's prestigious World Press Photo award, the picture shows Merkel dominant.
Her fists planted on the table, she looms above an apparently nervous Trump, looking up at her and listening without response. Macron is masked by the crowd, Britain's prime minister Theresa May invisible.
While it is not clearly known what was going on when the picture was clicked, the image invited hilarious captions and memes on social media with many calling it an 'iconic photo' of the summit. While many said that the picture sums up Trump’s time at G-7, several others called it a 'power dynamic'.
(With agency inputs)
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