“Nobody wants him because he’s going to be out of office very soon,” Trump said after hearing from a reporter that Macron would not join the board. “I’ll put a 200 per cent tariff on his wines and champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” Trump said.
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s five-year presidential term is due to end in May 2027, and he cannot run again for a third term in accordance with French law.
The president also shared a text from French President Macron, in which Macron invited Trump to dinner in Paris on Thursday. In addition to it, Macron suggested meetings on Ukraine, Syria, Denmark, and Russia to discuss various matters, including Trump’s proposal to acquire Greenland from Denmark, citing security concerns, according to a report by Bloomberg.
“I do not understand what you are doing in Greenland,” Macron told Trump in the text, which was confirmed by a French official, reports from Bloomberg said.
Donald Trump’s ‘Board of peace’
The Board of Peace was an idea initially proposed by President Trump last September as part of his plan to end the war in Gaza, although the initiative now seems to be aimed at mediating global conflict more broadly.
Macron invited US President Donald Trump for a G7 meeting after the World Economic Forum, as per a screenshot of both their chats shared by the latter on Truth Social.
Macron affirmed that France and the US were in line on Syria and could do great things in Iran, but do not understand his stance on Greenland.
Trump’s reply to Macron’s text was not visible in the screenshot if he replied at all.
Donald Trump’s 200% wine tariff threat on France
Wines and spirits exported from the European Union to the United States are currently subject to a 15 per cent tariff, a rate that France has been actively lobbying to eliminate since Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen reached a US-EU trade agreement in Scotland last summer, according to a report by Reuters.
The United States is the biggest market for French wine and spirits, with exports reaching USD 3.8 billion in 2024.
“The fact that we’re getting more threats is going to make the industry harder to invest in; it’s going to make it harder for companies to make decisions for their own investments,” said Laurence Whyatt, head of European beverages research at Barclays, according to a report by Reuters.
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