Facing the French ambassadors, Emmanuel Macron extended his hand to the new American president Donald Trump, while tackling his famous sidekick Elon Musk.
The President of the Republic was this Monday, January 6, facing the French ambassadors. The opportunity for Emmanuel Macron to deliver his foreign policy priorities for the year 2025 which begins. With the recent election of the American Donald Trump, it is difficult for the head of state not to have a word for the United States. The tenant of the Élysée was particularly optimistic about the return of the former American president to the White House.
Donald Trump “knows that he has a solid ally in France, an ally whom he does not disesteem”, said Emmanuel Macron, stressing that “from 2016 to 2020, France was able to work with President Trump”. The head of state then warned: “If we decide to be weak and defeatist, there is little chance of being respected by the United States of America of President Trump”, before remarking: “To us to know how to cooperate with the choice that was made by the American people.”
Without ever naming him, Emmanuel Macron did not fail to attack the famous support of Donald Trump during the last electoral campaign, namely: the eccentric and controversial billionaire Elon Musk. While the latter still tweeted on December 20 that “only the AfD [parti d’extrême droite ndlr.] can save Germany”, thus generating strong accusations of interference in the electoral campaign with a view to the German legislative elections of February 23, 2025, Emmanuel Macron accused the boss of Tesla, X and SpaceX of supporting “a new reactionary international”. “Ten years ago, what if we had been told that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new reactionary international movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany? Who would have imagined it?” asked the president.
An attack to which the principal concerned did not fail to react: “Oh, like that time when [Keir] Starmer [le Premier ministre britannique ndlr.] called Donald Trump a racist and said the British government should do everything to stop him? Or when [Keir] Starmer sent members of the British Labor Party to campaign in the United States against President Trump this year?” he asked, throwing new barbs at his current enemy, Keir Starmer.