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Macron Tells Trump He's Wrong - to His Face (w/ Rachel, O'Donnell Comments) [1]

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Date: 2025-02-24

French President Emmanuel Macron came to Washington today to “discuss” Ukraine with the Great Orange Sh!tgibbon. It did not start off well. Trump and Macron share awkward long handshake after White House snub.

Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron shared an awkward handshake after the US president snubbed his French counterpart by not greeting him at the White House upon his arrival on Monday, 24 February.

Fox News did not take the handshake duel — which has been going on for years — kindly: Trump humiliated by Macron in tug-of-war handshake leaving Fox News disgusted.

The two engaged in a bizarre tug-of-war handshake where Trump aggressively pulled on Macron's hand, but the French leader immediately pulled back as well, refusing to submit to Trump. The two did not let go of each other for several seconds as they stood side by side and faced the press. ox News analyzed the dynamics of the greeting, pointing out that the French president pulled back on Trump. "There it is, we saw President Trump firmly grip the hand of Emmanuel Macron there, and a little bit of a pull back there from Macron. Been a bit of a battle going back to 2017," Fox News host and former Trump Press Secretary Kayleigh Michelle McEnany commented on air.

Then things really got interesting: BREAKING: Macron interrupts Trump to correct false claim that Europe only loans money to Ukraine:

French President Emmanuel Macron publicly interrupted Donald Trump to correct another of the US President’s falsehoods over Ukraine. The rare diplomatic rebuke that came Monday at the White House highlighted the underlying tensions in the two leaders' discussions despite their outwardly cordial tone. It came as Trump claimed that European nations were merely loaning financial aid to Kyiv. “Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They’re getting their money back,” Trump said, pressing his argument that US taxpayers would see no return. Before he could continue, Macron swiftly intervened, physically reaching over to grab Trump’s arm in a pointed effort to set the record straight. “No, in fact, to be frank, we paid,” Macron insisted. “We paid 60 percent of the total effort. It was like the US: loans, guarantees, grants.” [emphasis added]

Raw Story’s headline is even blunter. 'If you believe that': French president interrupts Trump to deliver fact check on Ukraine. Also, CNN: In Oval Office talks with Trump, Macron defends the nature of European support for Ukraine:

At one point, Macron attempted to correct his US counterpart on the nature of European support for Ukraine, interrupting Trump as he was speaking to suggest he was misstating the facts. . . . “Just so you understand, Europe is loaning the money to Ukraine. They’re getting their money back,” Trump began as he was preparing to make the case for a new deal to secure Ukraine’s mineral revenues. That is when Macron reached over to grab Trump’s arm to interject. “No, in fact, to be frank, we paid. We paid 60% of the total effort. It was like the US: loans, guarantees, grants,” he said, as Trump smiled ruefully. [emphasis added]

Trump can’t get no respect from other European leaders either. The chancellor-elect of Germany made it clear in his victory remarks that he isn’t going to bow to Trump. Merz warns Europe should seek ‘independence’ from US after conservatives win German election - and far-right support surges:

“My absolute priority will be to strengthen Europe as quickly as possible so that, step by step, we can really achieve independence from the USA.”

Metz also had a few words about the way Vance and Musk tried to interfere in the election:

“The interventions from Washington were no less dramatic and drastic and ultimately outrageous than the interventions we have seen from Moscow,” he said. “We are under such massive pressure from two sides that my top priority is to create unity in Europe.”

Nor is Zelenskyy himself bending the knee: ADAPTIVE INDOMITABLE UKRAINE: Zelensky Not Falling Into Trump Trap, Annoying Him. Europe Stands.

On the domestic side, Elon Musk is taking flak from Trump’s own toadies: DOGE is encountering opposition from Donald Trump’s appointees. And Maine’s governor gave a preview of what Macron did when the other day she told Trump to his face: "See you in Court" over Trump’s anti-trans crusade.

All of that has to sting, and sting hard. But the European defiance has to particularly stick in his craw, because Puppet Master Putin particularly wants Agent Krasnov to get Europe to stop helping Ukraine.

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I was watching TRMS Rachel Maddow tonight and she played the video of Macron interrupting Trump. She described Macron’s putting his hand on Trump’s arm as like someone hushing a demented old grandfather.

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Add to the list this devastating observation by Lawrence O’Donnell: Lawrence O'Donnell Flags Moment Trump Was ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’

Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally,” claimed O’Donnell. . . . The U.S. president was “humiliated and exposed in a way that no previous president ever could be because no previous president would be pathological enough to try to tell a lie like that right in front of the person he’s lying about. And no previous president could possibly be stupid enough to try to tell a lie like that,” said O’Donnell.

I can hear O’Donnell’s voice just in reading the words!

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