The White House criticized, Monday, March 17, the French MEP Raphaël Glucksmann, who had asked the Americans to “return the statue of freedom”, affirming that it was “thanks to the United States that the French did not speak German”, the essayist responding with a declaration to the American people.
“It is only thanks to the United States of America that the French do not speak German today, so they should be very grateful to our big country,” the White House spokesperson, Karoline Leavitt, said at a press conference, by calling Raphaël Glucksmann, without naming him, “little French politician unknown”.
“We are going to tell the Americans who chose to switch to the Tyrans, the Americans who saw the researchers for having shown scientific freedom, ‘give us back the statue of freedom. We have given you a gift, but apparently you despise it,” launched Sunday during a 45-year-old essayist meeting, very identified on the defense of Ukraine and Europe and critic of Donald Trump. Raphaël Glucksmann, who arrived in third place in the European elections of 2024 in France, with the Place Place Publicist-Socialist Place list, puts his side in working order for the future presidential election in 2027.
“Call to Small”
The forties also responded to the admonitions of the “shameful administration” Trump by a long message on the social network X, addressed “to the Americans”, in English. “I will simply not be there if hundreds of thousands of young Americans had not landed on our beaches in Normandy,” first praised the MEP. “But the America of these heroes fought against the tyrants, she did not flattered them. She was the enemy of fascism, not the friend of Putin. She helped resistance and did not attack (the Ukrainian president Volodymyr) Zelensky”, and “celebrated science”, he continued, praising an “America which is so better than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, Xenophobia, or obscurantism “.
“The statue (of freedom) is yours, but what it personifies belongs to everyone, and if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will resume the torch here in Europe”, launched Raphaël Glucksmann in his message, qualifying his request to make the statue of “symbolic” and “of call to the start”, making vow that freedom and dignity “.
Objective: 2027
The MEP has returned to the front of the political scene in recent weeks in the face of accelerating the Russian threat and the American disengagement from Ukraine, which he had predicted for months. “The fact of having been right before everyone else can give him legitimacy and leadership,” said one of his relatives, but “he must be more anchored in the national debate and the local issues”.
Whoever positions himself on the niche of pro-European social democracy and insoumise anti-France already has many potential competitors for 2027, such as ex-President François Hollande, ex-Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, or the president of the Occitanie region Carole Delga. But the MEP is regularly in good position in the polls. And among the socialists, who hold their congresses in June, some wish to see him play a presidential role, and hope to create a confederation with public square.