Glucksmann responds to Trump, with another diatribe

MEP Place Public Raphaël Glucksmann has struggled with Donald Trump spokesperson. He notably accuses the United States of having “tilted on the side of tyrants”.

A pass of weapons to say the least unexpected. MEPRaphaël Glucksmann and the spokesperson for the White House Karoline Leavitt will not obviously spend their holidays together. This Sunday, the party leader Public square had asked the Americans to “return the statue of freedom”After “switching to the tyrants’ side”. An outing that did not please the Trump administration at all. As of this Monday, the spokesperson of the American president bitten in the hook and assured that it is“Thanks to the United States that the French do not speak German today”, before adding that the French “should be grateful to our big country”.

It didn’t take more to rekindle the embers.Raphaël Glucksmann split a long message published on the social network X this Monday, written in English. “Dear Americans. Since the White House spokesperson attacks me, I wanted to tell you this,” he begins. Before embarking on a long rant against the Trump administration which he describes as “shameful”. According to her words, at the time of the Normandy landing, “America was fighting against tyrants, it did not flattered them,” he said.

“I am petrified by Trump’s betrayal”

“It was the enemy of fascism, not the friend of Vladimir Putin (…) She celebrated science, and did not lay her researchers for having used prohibited words. She welcomed the persecuted and did not take them for targets. It was far from what your current president does, says and embodies,” he continues. He also rents an “America which is so much better than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia or obscurantism”.

“It is precisely because I am petrified by the betrayal of Donald Trump that I have declared (…) that we could symbolically take up the statue of freedom if your government despised everything it symbolizes in your eyes, ours and those of the world, “he explained.” The statue is yours, but what it personifies belongs to everyone, and if the free world no longer interests your government, when we will resume the torch, here in Europe “, he continues.

In fact, this is an alert cry fromThe one who arrived in third place in the European elections of 2024, in an allied list with the socialists. “It was an alarm signal. Nobody, of course, will come to steal the statue of freedom,” he wanted to specify. He finally invited to a “start”, still believing that European and Americans will be able to find himself “in the fight for freedom and dignity”, despite the numerous and deep dissonances of the moment, exacerbated by the conflict between kyiv and Moscow.