France and the United States on the time of confrontation | EUROtoday

Donald Trump likes to make a spectacle of himself. He typically achieves this by crushing the opposite, even when he’s an ally. Among his favourite targets: Emmanuel Macron. As the image of a broken transatlantic relationship, the French president, for having dared to defy the American president, appears to have grow to be the tycoon’s whipping boy. The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, the place the leaders of the world’s largest corporations and the leaders of the planet meet annually, was the scene this week of a private confrontation between the 2 males.

“What the hell happened?” » “What the hell happened” within the eyes of the French president in order that he wears “her beautiful glasses”launched Donald Trump, Wednesday January 21, triggering the hilarity of a packed room, denigrating the looks of “badass” what, in accordance with him, his French counterpart would take. The day earlier than, the tenant of the Elysée had given, in entrance of the identical viewers, an offensive speech relating to the strategies thought of brutal by the American president. Suffering from an eye fixed damage, Emmanuel Macron wore aviator sun shades. On the platform, he recalled Europe’s attachment to multilateralism, attacking those that, he mentioned, concentrating on the United States, search to “weaken and subordinate Europe” by disregarding territorial sovereignty. Donald Trump had threatened prohibitive customs duties in opposition to those that opposed his want to grab Greenland. A follow “unacceptable”protested the French president.

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