ILy had virile and brutal hand handles, ties on the thighs and a few accomplices laughs, ostensibly shown on television. When Emmanuel Macron finds Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, February 24, hovers the idea that the President of the Republic has a diplomatic asset that his European counterparts do not have to try to avoid a serious geopolitical crisis: the Frenchman, first head of state of the European Union to make the trip to the United States, knows, or believes to know, the American billionaire. Donald Trump, “I know him (…). He is someone I respect and who, I think, respect myself, with whom I speak very easily ”he poses, a few days before his maintenance in the oval office, speaking on his social networks.
Emmanuel Macron met the former real estate tycoon repeatedly during his first mandate, and spoke to him regularly on the phone. “Tell the Head of State to always start his words with a compliment to Donald Trump”had suggested, at the time, an adviser from the White House to a French diplomat before one of these telephone calls to try to put the American president, irascible and unpredictable, in good measures.
The Donald Trump of 2025 is not the same as that of 2017. The Capitole assault by activists he encouraged in 2021, he was capable of. He may qualify the French president as“Very special man”By evoking, sparkling eyes, their 2017 dinner at Jules Verne, the restaurant of the Eiffel Tower, it does not give in to the bottom.
Has Emmanuel Macron have a tiny chance of convincing Donald Trump to stay on the side of the Ukraine allies? Is this “special relationship” that French has been able to build with the American president a real advantage? “Diplomacy is human relations, Emmanuel Macron had no illusions”Observes Gérard Araud, former French ambassador to the United States. “Absolute seducer”In the words of the former diplomat, the French president is customary of a diplomacy “from man to man” where the emotional dimension appears central. In a fairly lonely exercise, he seeks to flatter or impress the “strong men” of the international scene. In 2017, he received Donald Trump on the Champs-Elysée for the military parade of July 14 after having invited Vladimir Putin in Versailles in May. A language – the only one? – to which the American president is sensitive.
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