The White House responded by saying that “it's only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.”

A French politician has recently made the call to the US administration to return the Statue of Liberty, presented to the Americans as a gift to commemorate 100 years of the American Declaration of Independence.

Macron has let his prime minister, François Bayrou, play the role of being a more critical voice. Bayrou tore into the “brutality” that was shown to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his White House visit and suggested that Trump’s administration risked handing victory to Russia when it paused military aid to Ukraine.