The Trump Administration
France
France
Our oldest ally.
Day 816
Monday 15 April 2019
Day 792
Friday 22 March 2019
...adding that U.N. Security Council resolutions had recognized the annexation as null and void.
Day 788
Monday 18 March 2019
"he wakes me up every morning miaowing to death because he wants to go out, and then when I open the door he stays in the middle, undecided, and then gives me evil looks when I put him out."
Day 786
Saturday 16 March 2019
Day 761
Tuesday 19 February 2019
The marches came after around 80 graves were desecrated with swastikas overnight in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France
Day 758
Saturday 16 February 2019
Day 747
Tuesday 5 February 2019
France fired the missile from a fighter jet in an exercise that tested every element of an actual nuclear strike
Day 728
Thursday 17 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 27
French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe has said a no-deal Brexit looks "less and less unlikely" and has launched a contingency plan to prepare for it.
Day 697
Monday 17 December 2018
Day 692
Wednesday 12 December 2018
Day 688
Saturday 8 December 2018
Day 684
Tuesday 4 December 2018
The protests are not “a middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism.” Not even close.
To be fair, there is a video that seems to show people chanting, “We want Trump.” It’s just not entirely clear whether they were being serious — or just cheering for the guy wearing a rubber Trump mask and dancing for the crowd.
Oh, and it seems the video was taken in the UK — not France.
"America is booming, Europe is burning They want to cover up the middle class rebellion against cultural Marxism," he wrote in the punctuation- and grammar-light message.
Day 676
Monday 26 November 2018
EU powers take lead on special payments channel to maintain trade with Islamic Republic
Day 675
Sunday 25 November 2018
Day 663
Tuesday 13 November 2018
Day 662
Monday 12 November 2018
While the text of the tweet is cryptic, Trump appeared to be warning that Germany may invade France again without NATO and U.S. protection.
Day 661
Sunday 11 November 2018
"Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism: nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism"
Day 660
Saturday 10 November 2018
What Macron said has been largely echoed by European Union leaders for months now, and in fact mimics the same demand Trump has long made: Europe needs to stop relying on the United States for its own defense.
...it displayed “real low energy,” for Trump "to not bother to honor the sacrifice of American soldiers in WWI due to some rain. Somehow everyone else was able to do so today.”
Day 659
Friday 9 November 2018
Day 587
Wednesday 29 August 2018
Stone-throwing, insults and dangerous manoeuvres on the high seas: French and British fishermen clashed in the English Channel over a hoard of scallops
Day 538
Wednesday 11 July 2018
Day 504
Thursday 7 June 2018
Day 471
Saturday 5 May 2018
Trump managed to stoke outrage and anger in both London and Paris this weekend — and he did so with a single speech.
Day 461
Wednesday 25 April 2018
‘Rational analysis does not lead me to think he will stay in the deal,’ says French president.
Day 460
Tuesday 24 April 2018
Hours of intensive talks and elaborate displays of bonhomie between President Donald Trump and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday failed to yield clarity on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has derided and Macron hopes to salvage.
Day 459
Monday 23 April 2018
President Emmanuel Macron of France arrived Monday at the White House for the first state visit of Mr. Trump’s presidency
Day 458
Sunday 22 April 2018
The three-day visit is likely to feature more displays of public affection between two leaders who talk on the phone constantly and closely coordinated recent airstrikes against Syria.
Day 450
Saturday 14 April 2018
Day 449
Friday 13 April 2018
The strikes risked pulling the United States deeper into the complex, multi-sided war in Syria from which Mr. Trump only last week said he wanted to withdraw.
Trump announced "precision strikes" against chemical weapons targets in Syria in a televised address on Friday night, announcing a joint operation is underway with armed forces from France and the United Kingdom.
Day 431
Monday 26 March 2018
Poland, Italy, Denmark, France and Germany were among 14 European Union member nations announcing plans to expel Russians from their countries in solidarity with Britain, which previously expelled 23 Russian diplomats after the poisoning. Canada also said it would expel four.
Day 420
Thursday 15 March 2018
The statement said the use of novichok “constitutes the first offensive use of a nerve agent in Europe since the second world war”
Day 326
Monday 11 December 2017
The "Make Our Planet Great Again" grants are part of Macron's efforts to counter U.S. President Donald Trump on the climate change front.
Day 181
Wednesday 19 July 2017
Trump: I want to either get it done or not get it done. If we don’t get it done, we are going to watch Obamacare go down the tubes, and we’ll blame the Democrats.
Trump: I think he is going to be a terrific president of France. But he does love holding my hand.
Trump: Because I have done nothing wrong. A special counsel should never have been appointed in this case.
Trump: Well, Sessions should have never recused himself, and if he was going to recuse himself, he should have told me before he took the job, and I would have picked somebody else.
Day 175
Thursday 13 July 2017
Mr. Trump, for his own inaugural parade, had expressed a desire to infuse it with tanks and fighter jets. That wish was not granted, but Mr. Trump remains transfixed by displays of military power.
For the embattled American president, the trips overseas — the visit to France will be his third abroad in two months — have been a surprising pleasure, a reprieve from days filled with cable news coverage of the Russia investigation
Day 174
Wednesday 12 July 2017
The invitation by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, might not only give Mr. Trump a brief respite from his domestic political woes, but also establish Mr. Macron’s standing as Mr. Trump’s primary point of contact in Western Europe.
Day 151
Monday 19 June 2017
Day 150
Sunday 18 June 2017
Macron’s La République en Marche (LREM) party is expected to take 319 of 577 seats in the lower-house National Assembly
Day 143
Sunday 11 June 2017
Macron needs an outright majority in the 577-seat National Assembly to have a clear path to enact his sweeping program.
Day 135
Saturday 3 June 2017
The French video goes on to refute the main arguments in the US video using new slides with text edits.
Day 134
Friday 2 June 2017
Macron's eloquent speech prompted people to take to Twitter in droves to hail his proficiency in the English language as superior to that of Donald Trump.
Day 133
Thursday 1 June 2017
The leaders of France, Germany and Italy said in a joint statement that they regretted the United States' decision to withdraw from the accord, but affirmed "our strongest commitment" to implement its measures
Day 130
Monday 29 May 2017
Macron is the first Western leader to speak to Putin after the Group of Seven summit over the weekend, where relations with Russia were a key topic.
Day 129
Sunday 28 May 2017
“My handshake with him was not innocent,” Macron said. “We need to show that we won’t make small concessions, even symbolic ones, while not overhyping things either.”
Day 108
Sunday 7 May 2017
Macron won the French presidency over the right-wing nationalist Marine Le Pen in a sweeping victory that resounded across the country.
Day 106
Friday 5 May 2017
“Intervening in the last hour of an official campaign, this operation clearly seeks to destabilize democracy, as already seen in the United States’ last president campaign”
Day 92
Friday 21 April 2017
“Le Pen and Mélenchon say the defense of France needs to be French,” he said. “Macron and Fillon say the defense of France must be European.”
Day 91
Thursday 20 April 2017
ISIS very quickly claimed responsibility for the attack
Day 22
Friday 10 February 2017
French police "thwarted an imminent attack on French soil" when they arrested four people, including a 16-year-old girl and three men, in cities across France
Day 20
Wednesday 8 February 2017
The conversation did apparently broach a subject of mutual concern to both countries — fighting ISIS — but it seems that Trump’s rants about NATO and China overshadowed the other topics.
Day 15
Friday 3 February 2017
The attacker had two machetes and was carrying two backpacks -- but there was no sign the bags held explosives, a police union official said.