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What's behind Trump's unprecedented attack on Macron?

2025-06-17 22:00:39Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
What's behind Trump's unprecedented attack on Macron?
Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Donald Trump, at the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta

Unprecedented clash between Trump and "former friend" Macron, who attempted to provide an explanation for the American leader's decision to leave the G7 summit a day early: "I don't know what he's talking about, he's looking for publicity"

Stefano Montefiori – Corriere della Sera

The more or less hidden tension that has been simmering for months between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron has finally exploded. It was a message written by the American president on the social network "Truth" while flying on Air Force One to Washington.

Trump left the G7 in Kananaskis, Canada, the day before, and during a press conference, French President Macron tried to explain this, suggesting that Trump had left early to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Iran: “There is indeed an offer to meet and discuss. The United States has assured that they will find a ceasefire and, since they can put pressure on Israel, things can change.”

But the American president did not like this interpretation and immediately made it known: "French President Emmanuel Macron, seeking publicity, incorrectly said that I left the G7 summit in Canada to return to Washington and work for a 'ceasefire' between Israel and Iran."

"Wrong! He has no idea why I'm going to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a ceasefire. This is a much more important issue. Whether he does it on purpose or not, Emmanuel is always wrong. Stay in touch!" he wrote.

Between the accusation of publicity-seeking and the accusation of always being wrong, rarely has a head of state attacked another in such a direct and personal way, especially when it comes to two allied countries that are part of the same defense organization, NATO. Since Trump took office in the White House last January, Macron has multiplied signs of appreciation and personal respect for Trump, but at the same time he has regularly criticized his political decisions, in an increasingly clear way: from the rapprochement with Russia by abandoning Ukraine, to the American plans for Canada and Greenland, to the trade war with tariffs.

Before landing in Calgary for the G7, President Macron stopped in Nuuk, Greenland, on Sunday where he met with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenlandic Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen, offering them France’s and Europe’s solidarity in the face of Trump’s ambitions and reiterating that “Greenland is not for sale.” A stance that must not have pleased Trump, who was determined – at least in words – to take possession of the Arctic territory.

In this context, Trump and Macron met in Kananaskis. The American president seemed to defend Russia's interests again. Trump complained about Putin's absence from the meeting due to an old decision by previous American and Canadian leaders, Barack Obama and Justin Trudeau, and went so far as to suggest that mediation between Israel and Iran be entrusted to Putin. Macron, on the other hand, has been the harshest European leader towards Russia for months. Trump again showed his contempt for the multilateralism that Macron, on the other hand, is still trying to defend.

As on other occasions in the past, at the press conference the French president tried to at least partially mask the deep disagreements with Trump over the root of the problems, issuing conciliatory statements and trying to flatter him for… his role as a negotiator, in this case between Israel and Iran. President Trump, however, did not play nice, accusing Macron of seeking publicity and of always being wrong.

A not-so-positive epilogue for a G7 that had among its objectives the reduction, or at least not deepening, of the distances between the United States and Europe.


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