New Delhi, June 14 -- PARIS - Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday night, surrounded by cage fighters on the South Lawn of the White House, and then got on a plane to France.

The juxtaposition was not accidental. Trump had made clear for months that the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, a Belle Epoque spa town on the southern shore of Lake Geneva, would wait for him. France rescheduled the gathering - moving it from June 14-16 to June 15-17 - to avoid competing with his birthday. A structure known as "The Claw," an outdoor UFC octagon erected on the grounds where presidents have received foreign dignitaries and state guests, was to give way, hours later, to Air Force One.

The summit opens Monday. What Trump is flying into is a different matter ...