Macron is for France, Trump is for Trump .. that's the difference .. lolol .. Emomali Rahmon of Tajikistan tied Trump up, too .. lol .. the shake-Trumpathon could become an ongoing event ..
The French president promised to ‘make our planet great again.’
[IMAGE]: A video grab from the French TV channel LCI taken on June 1, 2017, shows French President Emmanuel Macron speaking during a live broadcast in Paris, after US president Donald Trump announced the United States was to pull out of the 2015 Paris climate accord | AFP via Getty Images
By Saim Saeed
6/2/17, 8:11 AM CET
Updated 6/2/17, 8:52 AM CET
French President Emmanuel Macron used Donald Trump’s own catchphrase to take a dig at the U.S. president’s decision to withdraw .. http://www.politico.eu/article/climates-brexit-moment/ .. from the Paris climate agreement.
.. late Thursday and a visual tweet on Friday, Macron urged the world to “Make our planet great again.”
The French president also repeated a call he made during his election campaign inviting American scientists to move to France to work on climate change.
“This evening, the United States turned its back on the world,” Macron said on Thursday. “But France will not turn its back on the Americans.”
During last week’s NATO meeting, Macron squeezed the U.S. president’s hand .. http://www.politico.eu/article/media-cheers-macron-going-mano-a-mano-with-trump/ .. so tightly, media reported the mens’ “knuckles turned white.” He then refused to let go even when Trump tried to pull back. At the same meeting, Macron appeared to deliberately snub Trump, swerving away from him to embrace German Chancellor Angela Merkel instead.
Emmanuel Macron’s first scandal threatens parliamentary majority
Allegations of nepotism against a key aide are taking some of the shine off the new French president’s first weeks in office.
By Nicholas Vinocur 6/2/17, 2:32 PM CET Updated 6/2/17, 7:00 PM CET
[IMAGE:] Emmanuel Macron sailed to power on a wave of euphoria and anti-far right sentiment — but the honeymoon could be over | Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images
PARIS — A scandal involving one of French President Emmanuel Macron’s closest allies, Richard Ferrand, is casting a shadow over his first steps in power and his ability to achieve a majority in parliament later this month.
Riding high from the president’s almost dream debut in office, the new government at first tried to play down accusations of nepotism against Ferrand, who is a cabinet minister and secretary-general of La République en marche (“The Republic on the move”), the centrist movement founded by Macron that has been transformed into a political party.