Trump to leave G7 summit early and return to Washington

Guardian-June16th2025

Johana Bhuiyan (now); Lucy Campbell, Marina Dunbar and Charlie Moloney (earlier)

Donald Trump will leave the G7 summit early and return to Washington DC on Monday, the White House said about an hour after the president said people in Iran’s capital Tehran should evacuate immediately.

Trump’s evacuation warning on Truth Social followed a warning from the Israeli defense forces issued a formal evacuation order to residents of Tehran warning them of the imminent bombing of “military infrastructure”.

Trump was originally supposed to arrive back in the US in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to people familiar with the matter.

The scientist responsible for overseeing the CDC team that collects data on COVID-19 and RSV hospitalizations resigned on Monday.

Trump says ‘everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran’

Trump says everyone should evacuate Tehran and that Iran “should have signed the ‘deal’”.

“I told them to sign,” Trump posted on Truth Social. “What a shame, and waste of human life. IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”