“I love you “: Emmanuel Macron has conquered Donald Trump – Gala

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If it seemed to be gone off on the wrong foot in their relationship with Donald Trump, Emmanuel Macron has managed to reverse the trend. It is, in any case, what seems to indicate the surprising message delivered by his american counterpart, the French president and published this weekend in the JDD.

Invite Donald Trump to attend the 14 July parade eventually bear fruit. If the decision of Emmanuel Macron has been able to surprise at the time of its announcement, it has since appeared as a gesture of strategic of rare effectiveness. This weekend, the JDD reports that the u.s. president has recently sent to his French counterpart the copy of an interview from an article in the New York Times in which he praises Emmanuel Macron. On the word manuscript that he attached to the copy of the article, the successor of Barack Obama adds a layer. Hand, are written the few words following: “It is true, Emmanuel, I love you. “

They may seem harmless, these six words are worth their weight in gold in the international relations. Because a few months earlier, the relationship between the two new presidents do not seem to have started in the best possible way. At their first meeting in the margins of the Nato summit in Brussels, Emmanuel Macron was able to take advantage of his colleague the English-speaking shaking hands firmly, a gesture usually mastered to perfection by Donald Trump. In the beating on his favorite terrain, Emmanuel Macron, risked alienating his counterpart. He was then expected that a few weeks before to give him a call personally and invite them to attend the parade of 14 July in the year of the centenary of the commitment of the United States in the First world War. Difficult to find better to pander to the ego of the real estate magnate.

The invitation was eventually to bear fruit. In the columns of the New York Times, Donald Trump was ecstatic about this trip official. “I am happy to be gone. Honestly, it was great. One of the most beautiful shows I’ve ever seen. Moreover, we should do the same thing in Washington. “As for the French president who had publicly crushed the hand during their first meeting? ” He is a good man!, decreed there now. Intelligent. Fort. I think he will do a great job in France “. In a one-day visit to paris, and in two hours of parade, Emmanuel Macron was able to relax greatly the relations between the two countries. The character of Donald Trump made that this agreement can be shattered at any moment, but at a time when the us president collects the opponents, it doesn’t hurt to maintain good relations with the first economic power in the world.

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