Macron's biceps, Trump's power and the "G7 horror show": what Emmanuel Carrère says in a major report for the "Guardian"
In June, the author of "The Adversary" and "V13" closely followed the French president to Greenland, then to Canada. This provided the opportunity to write a new profile of the Élysée Palace resident for the Guardian, and also to describe what the behind-the-scenes world of an international summit looks like in the era of Donald Trump.
Japan's Shigeru Ishiba, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, France's Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Mark Carney, the United States' Donald Trump, Britain's Keir Starmer and Germany's Friedrich Merz at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Canada, on June 16, 2025. MICHAEL KAPPELER/DPA-POOL/DPA PICTURE-ALLIANCE VIA AFP
At the start of Emmanuel Macron's first term in office, in October 2017, Emmanuel Carrère wrote a long profile of the president then nicknamed "Jupiter" for our British colleagues at the Guardian. He followed him for a week, to Athens and Saint Martin. He estimated that this man "could seduce a chair" and admitted to having himself fallen "three-quarters" under his spell. He recorded confessions like this...
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