Posted on 03/19/2025 12:05:00 PM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In comments that demonstrated historical and diplomatic ignorance, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt on Monday told France, America’s oldest ally, it should be “very grateful” to the United States that it isn’t speaking German right now.
The president’s 28-year-old mouthpiece was responding to comments over the weekend by a French politician, Raphaël Glucksmann, a member of Europe’s Parliament, who told reporters, “We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty.’”......
“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it,” Glucksmann said, tongue in cheek, according to Politico. “So it will be just fine here at home.”
France presented the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. in 1886 to commemorate the United States centennial of independence and the friendship between the two countries. The famous quote featured on Lady Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” seems at odds with the Trump administration’s unduly harsh treatment of migrants.
Glucksmanns said Trump’s re-election signaled America no longer represented the principles on which it was founded.
Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy asked Leavitt, “They want the Statue of Liberty back. So, is President Trump going to send the Statue of Liberty back to France?”
“Absolutely not, and my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now,” an indignant Leavitt replied. “So they should be very grateful to our great country.”
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Norman Schwarzkopf
Letting the winner of the election serve a term in office was always the way it was supposed to work. 2020 was an aberration
Both historic events can be true, not to mention that we saved France and England from being bled to death in WW I
It is a fact that France would have been a long-term Nazi colony without our invasion of France. It’s not nearly as certain that we wouldn’t have been able to win the Revolution without France’s help.
the only thing that’s certain is we certainly love to post the opposition and haters of Trump media pieces here on a regular basis.
It backfired on to the weak French politician who made the inane statement.
What an utterly idiotic take.
Some moronic author has some seriously wadded panties.
Notice the anti President Trump slant.
The French politician remark was made “tongue in cheek” while the press secretary remark was made with an “indignant” tone.
Sorry, I saw the press secretary make her remark, and it was made in kind, i.e. tongue in cheek. Her big humorous smile is a dead give away.
The enemies of the administration are smart to attack the press secretary, she’s quite effective.
” It’s not nearly as certain that we wouldn’t have been able to win the Revolution without France’s help.”
It was SPAIN that gave us the gunpowder we needed. France showed up late to the party.
The Frenchie was probably watching a Musloid grooming gang cucking him with his wife and daughters...
The OP’s? If so, how so?
French Kraut? Sauerfrosch?
Indeed
It appears that Atlanta Black Star News never gets up to date on real issues kind of like the New Enquirer.
Who wrote this crap?
Spectacular
We should be leveling sanctions against French leaders like Macron until they end their war on free speech, such as their witch hunt against Telegram founder Pavel Durov.
It was only credited to the “Atlanta Black Star News”, which I’m sure is an impartial organization.
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
Norman Schwarzkopf
Cue Lawrence Welk, “A one anda two,…..”
The source does something that misleads people and writers on left and right do it, they gently massage things in a way that misleads, the author is correct though that if France had not aided us during our revolution we would be speaking English today instead of using our forks in our right hand.
For example, giving the impression the statue came with these words and this message.
“”France presented the Statue of Liberty to the U.S. in 1886 to commemorate the United States centennial of independence and the friendship between the two countries. The famous quote featured on Lady Liberty, “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” seems at odds with the Trump administration’s unduly harsh treatment of migrants.””
Propaganda blog. Probably soros funded.
That’s going to leave a marque.
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