French Lawmaker Trashes Trump’s America With Call For Icon’s Return, Amid Cheers | EUROtoday

A French member of the European Parliament has taken a daring swipe on the United States below President Donald Trump and known as for the return of the Statue of Liberty, which France gave to America and has since grow to be a logo of freedom and democracy worldwide.

“We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty,’” Raphael Glucksmann advised supporters of his center-left Place Publique occasion on Sunday.

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,” he continued of the enduring landmark that was devoted in New York Harbor in 1886 to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence, drawing cheers from the gang.

Glucksmann additionally had a mesage for the U.S.-based scientists who’ve been hit by Trump-enabled billionaire Elon Musk’s gutting of federally backed analysis applications by way of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency.

“If you want to fire your best researchers — those who, through their freedom, innovation, and pursuit of knowledge, helped make your country the world’s leading power — then we’re going to welcome them,” Glucksmann declared.