Yes, Trump Met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the Sidelines of the June 2024 G7 Summit — Claim Is True

The claim is that Trump met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (MBZ) before a G7 working session. The verdict is true. Four independent sources — spanning the U.S. government, international wire services, and UAE state media — all confirm the meeting took place.

The strongest and most direct evidence is the White House's own official readout, which confirms President Trump met with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the G7 Summit in Borgo Egnazia, Italy, in June 2024. Official White House readouts are primary source documents issued specifically to put meetings on the public record. This one is unambiguous.

Reuters independently reported on June 14, 2024, that Trump held a bilateral meeting with MBZ on the G7 sidelines in Italy, specifically noting it occurred prior to a G7 working session — the exact framing used in the claim. The Associated Press separately confirmed that Trump conducted bilateral meetings with invited partner leaders, including MBZ, on the margins of the summit schedule. Crucially, the UAE's own state news agency WAM also confirmed the meeting, describing discussions of bilateral relations and regional issues. Four sources from four different institutional vantage points all point to the same event.

The one place a skeptic could push back is on the phrase 'before a G7 working session.' That specific sequencing — the bilateral pull-aside happening immediately prior to a formal plenary or working session — is exactly how G7 sideline meetings are typically scheduled, and Reuters' reporting supports it. However, a minute-by-minute official schedule has not been publicly released, so the precise timing cannot be verified to the second. This is a narrow and largely procedural caveat; it does not touch the core fact that the meeting happened.

It is worth noting that UAE President MBZ was present at the Puglia summit as an invited partner country leader, which is why a bilateral with a U.S. leader was logistically possible and diplomatically routine. Nothing about the meeting is disputed by any credible source — no government, no news organization, and no official has contradicted it.

The manipulation pattern to watch for here is the opposite of what usually drives debunks: this claim is straightforwardly accurate, and the risk is not that people believe something false, but that vague or unsourced retellings might strip out important context — like the summit location, the date, or MBZ's role as an invited partner rather than a G7 member. When diplomatic claims circulate without those anchoring details, they become harder to verify and easier to distort. Always check whether a White House readout or host-country official statement exists — for major bilateral meetings, they almost always do.