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Canada's priorities for the confab are sharply focused on building stronger economies and strengthening peace and security, including harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and fortifying critical mineral supply chains.

And he's appeared at some right-wing media confabs and made a foray to a plant in Pennsylvania last week.

Republicans have seemed buoyant and gleeful at their Wisconsin confab this week, cheering wildly each time Trump appeared, his ear still bandaged.

This week he was expected to attend the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, a glittering confab in the south of France where advertisers and media grandees mingle over glasses of rosé.

I'm not talking specifically about ideology here, although there was plenty of odious far-right philosophy at this confab going all the way back to its first meeting in 1974.