Macron Hits Back at Trump for Mocking Him for Being Shoved by His Wife – as He Calls European Military Action to Reopen Strait of Hormuz “Unrealistic”
Emmanuel Macron has hit back at Donald Trump after the US President mocked him for being shoved by his wife – as the French President called European military action to re-open the Strait of Hormuz “unrealistic”. The Telegraph has more.
In a speech in which he attacked Nato allies for not joining the Iran war, Trump said Brigitte Macron had treated the French President “extremely badly” and that Macron was “still recovering from the right to the jaw”.
Macron said Trump’s reference to a 2025 video that showed Mrs Macron shoving her husband in the face, was “not elegant, nor up to standard”.
He said the White House’s call for allies to take military action in the Strait of Hormuz, which has been closed by Iran, were “unrealistic”, adding: “It is not our operation.”
The US and Israel started the war on February 28th without consulting allies, he said, adding: “They then complain that they are not being helped in an operation they decided on alone.”
He said Trump could not keep “contradicting” himself every day on Iran.
In a prime-time speech on Wednesday night, Trump told the American people that the “hard part is done” and said he was “very close” to ending the war.
He urged allies to “take the lead” in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, telling them to “build up some delayed courage”.
On Wednesday, the US President told the Telegraph that Nato was a “paper tiger”. He said he was reconsidering American membership of the military alliance after allies rejected his demand that warships be sent to reopen the waterway, which serves as a conduit for about a fifth of the world’s oil.
During the speech, Trump claimed he had asked Macron to send French warships to the Gulf, saying he had urged France to deploy vessels “immediately” but that Macron had refused, offering instead to help “once the war is won”.
Trump said: “No, no, I don’t need them when the war is over, Emmanuel.”
Before he described calling Macron, Trump mentioned Mrs Macron and the shoving incident last year, which went viral on social media at the time.
Macron told reporters in South Korea: “I am not going to respond to them [the comments]; they do not deserve a response. What we must do is work towards de-escalation, a ceasefire, and the resumption of negotiations.”
He added: “We are talking about matters of grave importance – we are talking about war, about the men and women fighting on the front line, about the men, women and civilians who are being killed.”
Macron said that the war would not resolve the issue of Tehran’s nuclear programme and that only “in-depth negotiations” could.
“Targeted military action, even for a few weeks, will not allow us to resolve the nuclear issue in the long term,” Macron said during a state visit to Seoul.
He added: “If there is no framework for diplomatic and technical negotiations, the situation could deteriorate again within a few months or a few years.”
Seems Europe continues to put its faith in asking the bad guys really nicely not to be so beastly.
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These negotiations are about lifting sanctions against Iran in exchange for political guarantees from its government. This may or may not be a good or workable idea. But it’s not “asking them nicely not to be so beastly.”
It’s called “The Wonderful British Sense of Humour”, which you still don’t get, apparently, even after all these years.
I call this a politically motivated, gross misrepresentation and what made you think I didn’t understand the wording? Trump wants to bomb Iran into submission. His political opponents want to strongarm its leaders based on economic pressure. Nobody’s planning to beg them to do anything. I didn’t offer an opinion on which course of action I consider more sensible¹.
¹ I’ll offer one now: Just ignore them and let the government of Israel sort out its own problems. If they insist on making difficulties wrt the Strait of Hormuz, stop them from doing so by military means which might include occupying enough of the coastal regions to guarantee that.
Seems European NSTI members and Ireland have a secret source of gas and oil so they don’t need any party of what could come through Hormuz. I trust that means Germany and France won’t be offered any rebuilding contracts in the Middle East not work for any new pipelines to by pass the straights.
Let them eat cake, I say.
Perhaps President Trump wants the French to go to Iran to show them how to surrender?
They’d also need a British expedition force for this which would need to be encircled in a coastal town and then proceed to flee from it. It’s a bit unfair to accuse the French of not having been able to do that with their country.
Whatever you do don’t mention stalingrad…
I did once, but I think I got away with it…
The 1943 summer offensive is a better example for one of Hitler’s military blunders: He first kept delaying it until the Russians had had time to fortify the area heavily. Then, it got started and after prolonged heavy fighting, broken off on the brink off success to rush troops to Sicily to counter the allied landings there which didn’t work. The first world war also offers a nice array of them (I’m more familiar with), eg, the battle of Ypres 1914¹. But in the given context, that’s pretty much besides the point: The German offensive in the west 1940 was a huge military success as it ended with a complete defeat of the Allied forces on the continent. The British forces were as defeated as the French ones but they could withdraw under the cover of the superior Royal Navy which also checkmated the Germans wrt ever having any chance to invade the British Isles. This option wasn’t available to the French government and hence, it had to surrender. That’s what happens when a war is lost. ¹ At least according to the opinion of the historical research section of the German general staff. The chief of the german general… Read more »
They don’t like it up’em.
Don’t tell him your name, Pike!
And in the meantime a generation of young men on all sides lost lives limbs, sight, mothers lost sons and all for the personal aggrandisement of certain individuals.
That’s the Communist theory that war is something like a game feudal overlords play with living pieces for their own amusement. The theory of those who are called feudal overlords differs very much from that. Eg, the German emperor Wilhelm II. considered a large European war the ultimate calamity he was determined to prevent if at all possible.
Todays world at one report on this FO led diplomatic meeting was more interesting than the spat in this article to do with what Trump said, or not: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2d0md89v2o The interviewee was not interested in the suggestion that dodgy trading to avoid formal currency was part of the current arrangement with Iran, though.
Since most of Britain’s oil and gas supplies come from the United States and Norway, while most of the oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz goes to Oriental countries, it’s really not our problem.
Let Wannabe “God-Emperor” Kim Wrong Un send his Bratulent Imperial Sprogette to the front line, leading North Korean Troops to open the Strait of Hormuz.
She can take an Anti-Aircraft Gun to execute anyone who falls asleep during her speeches, as her father did:
North Korea executes defence chief with an anti-aircraft gun | SBS News
“North Korea has executed its Defence Chief on treason charges by putting him in front of an anti-aircraft gun at a firing range, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) told lawmakers.”
Hyon Yong Chol, 66, who headed the isolated country’s military, was purged late last month for disobeying Kim Jong Un and FALLING ASLEEP DURING A MEETING at which North Korea’s young leader was present, according to South Korean lawmakers briefed in a closed-door meeting with the spy agency on Wednesday.”
“His execution, the latest of a series of high-level purges since Kim took power in 2011, was watched by hundreds of people, they said.”
C’mon Heretic, take roughly 20% of any traded commodity out of the market and what happens? – the price goes up, and as a man known to most of the world might say, ‘bigly’
Maybe if we (collective working hard here) hadn’t decided to play ‘goody two shoes’ and leave our ‘oh so polluting’ resources in the ground, we might be better positioned to withstand the price shock that ain’t going away any time soon.
But no – we hope that the sun will shine and the wind will blow – just right wind speed – and we will be grand. The mother of all recessions is just starting. Thanks bigly Don.
Run away, run away!
‘Macron said that the war would not resolve the issue of Tehran’s nuclear programme and that only “in-depth negotiations” could.’
Hasn’t that been exhaustively tried already? Maybe if Iran dropped one of the type of missiles that it recently sent to Chagos onto Paris he would change his tune.