The nationwide rally embarrassed by populism model Donald Trump | EUROtoday

After three months of chaotic mandate, punctuated by hostile and threatening declarations in the direction of Europe, Donald Trump retains some allies on the far proper. Is the National Rally (RN) nonetheless one among them? This one hesitates, greeting the substance however criticizing the shape, though a number of shades of Trumpism coexist inside it. The American president, nonetheless, begins to resemble, for European populists, to an embarrassing pal, as he places into observe a few of their recipes with a variable success: protectionism, rapprochement with Russia and mistrust of multilateralism, state xenophobia, transgressive selections.

The deputy (RN) of the Somme Jean-Philippe Tanguy, foremost adviser to Marine Le Pen in financial issues, has a transparent place on the topic: “Donald Trump places populism below a damaging gentle. I all the time thought that it was poisonous and that we needed to distance our distance, clarify how we’re completely different. »» But he additionally admits: his perspective is a minority within the far -right occasion.

Admittedly, it’s distant when Marine Le Pen cited Donald Trump for example, particularly on the rise in customs duties hitting China, already with the aim of rebalancing the commerce stability: “I would like France to do the same with Germany”she mentioned in 2018.

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