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World Leaders Weep With Gratitude as Trump Explains Economy to Them Very Slowly

Sources inside the summit say the President used hand gestures, a napkin diagram, and sustained eye contact to walk allied leaders through basic macroeconomics.

PARIS - By the third hour of a forty-minute working lunch, the room was quiet. The croissants had gone cold. The interpreter had put down her pen. At the head of the table, Trump was explaining comparative advantage using a bread roll and a water glass.

You have this, he said, holding up the roll. They have this, he said, holding up the glass. Now who wins? Everybody wins. That is the whole thing.

"He was not condescending. He was patient. I am saying there is a difference." French President Emmanuel Macron, according to aides now contextualizing the remark

The Napkin

The napkin depicted two overlapping circles labeled US and Them. Inside the overlap was the word DEAL, underlined twice. Outside both circles was a small frowning face. A senior European official said the frowning face did more work than several communiques.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney reportedly requested a copy after Trump explained the trade deficit through a hockey analogy that Carney later described as imperfect and immediately legible.

The final communique ran to forty-one pages. Paragraph seven contained, for the first time in the document's history, a Venn diagram. The frowning face was removed during drafting.

Editor's note: We decline to confirm or deny whether the newsroom has obtained the napkin.