Working alongside western democratic allies has not been a natural fit for Donald Trump. The US president left the recently concluded G7 summit in Canada early, with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron assuming this was to work on addressing the most severe escalation between Iran and Israel in decades.

U.S. President Donald Trump said late Monday that his early departure from the G7 summit has "nothing to do with" working on a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, denying comments by French President Emmanuel Macron.

He refutes French President Macron's comments that he's returning to the US to work on a truce, after earlier telling people in Tehran to evacuate.