It’s official, the bromance between Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron is over. It had always been a rocky relationship but on Thursday it ended in a spectacular fashion.
The French president, reacting to Trump’s decision to impose 20 per cent tariffs on all EU products, announced: ‘Investments to come or investments announced in recent weeks should be suspended until things are clarified with the United States.’
A few hours later the American president posted a message on social media in which he reflected on the sentence handed down to Marine Le Pen on Monday. Trump had commented little on her four-year suspended prison sentence and five-year political ineligibility for misusing EU funds, but riled by Macron remarks he gave France both barrels. ‘The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent,’ he wrote.
Likening Le Pen’s plight to his own legal troubles in recent years, Trump continued:
‘I don’t know Marine Le Pen, but do appreciate how hard she worked for so many years.
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