'Give us back the Statue of Liberty!', French MEP says

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00:00Financial cuts at the top of Donald Trump's political agenda and his decision to spearhead

00:04a plan to end the war in Ukraine, party leader Raphael Glucksmann took aim at supporters

00:10of the US president in the French political sphere.

00:16Let's make sure we never, ever let the Trump and Musk fan club into our country.

00:25Give us back the Statue of Liberty.

00:30We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it.

00:37Glucksmann's words echo those of Claude Maluret, a French senator whose speech in parliament

00:41in March strongly criticised Trump's decision to distance himself from his long-term allies.

00:47In reference to Trump's decision to open the conversation with Vladimir Putin, Maluret

00:52said that the war in Ukraine is being fought against a dictator, now supported by a traitor.

00:57Never in history has a US president given in to the enemy.

01:03Never has any president supported an aggressor against an ally.

01:06The message Trump is sending us is that there is no point in being his ally because he won't

01:10defend you.

01:12He will impose more tariffs on you than on his enemies, and he will threaten to seize

01:15your territories while supporting the dictators who invade you.

01:20One study published last month found that 59% of French people would describe Donald

01:24Trump as a dictator.

01:26Another found that 73% no longer consider the United States to be an ally.

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