We made fun of François Hollande speaking on television in 2013 to Leonarda, a minor from Kosovo who was about to be deported, and in return taking an arm of honor that showed little respect for his position. We made fun of it, perhaps even Emmanuel Macron was not the last to do so. This week, the president therefore deemed it his duty to respond to a widely followed influencer on TikTok who had complained about having been fined while driving his car for using his cell phone, assuring that he had only used it to pay the highway toll. “I have passed the file to the Minister of the Interior and we will collectively resolve this. Thank you for the alert.”
According to Le Figarothe Elysée is happy, all that was missing was that. Imagine that this president who we thought was inaudible has “800,000 likes on the video!”. Better still, the head of state’s advisors judge him to be downright “pompidolian” in his concern that we stop “annoying the French”.
But Georges Pompidou never asked for them to be ridiculed. Because we don’t know what’s the worst in Emmanuel Macron’s attitude. According to information from L’Express, the president created trouble in the gendarmerie. Firstly because at this time, the veracity of the facts remains to be established. The ticket has not yet been found, the influencer may have had his phone to his ear when arriving at the toll. Then because, if there was an error of assessment, it is anything but a social fact: no other comparable case has yet been noted by the gendarmerie services, including on social networks , reducing to nothing the presidential statement (“In 2025, we must be able to pay at the toll with our phone”).
Jupiter must be turning in his grave
Casualness about the facts, casualness about the person. The influencer really has a business card which justifies that Emmanuel Macron responded to him personally: he speaks of the president as a “dwarf married to his French teacher who runs a country the size of a potato chip”, he describes France as an “Islamophobic state”, he takes up all the arguments of the Muslim Brotherhood to protest against the ban on wearing the abaya at school, he calls on women to cover themselves completely and/or accept the polygamy. Full box.
Emmanuel Macron, who will be in Maubeuge next week to resume his travels in France, wants to maintain his connection with the people, while the Prime Minister takes care of Parliament. We would thus return to “the outline of the constituents of 1958”, underline the advisors of the Elysée. However, when Emmanuel Macron tried to re-presidentialize himself after his calamitous dissolution, he was overtaken by Macron Emmanuel. With this desire to remain at the center of the game, at the heart of everyone’s attention; with this inability to let others take the light away from him. In his story Twenty months in Matignon (Flammarion), Elisabeth Borne, after much hesitation, gave up publishing a formula that she had written plagiarizing François Fillon (“Who imagines General de Gaulle indicted?”) and which is part of her reflection on the proper functioning of the executive: “Can we imagine General de Gaulle announcing free condoms?” On December 8, 2022, Emmanuel Macron left it to no one else to announce this measure intended for 18-25 year olds.
Jupiter must be turning in his grave, if he even has one. And Emmanuel Macron will end up finishing himself.
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