Donald Trump mocked French President Emmanuel Macron during a private lunch on Wednesday (Apr 1). He narrated his phone call with his French counterpart, in which he asked Macron to send “some help in the Gulf”. As he was describing the situation and his telephonic exchange, Trump prefixed it with, “I call up France, Macron, whose wife treats him extremely badly. Still recovering from the right to the jaw.” In this comment, he was referencing a video from May 2025, which went viral. It was from Macron and French First Lady Brigitte Macron’s visit to Vietnam. A video in which it seemed as if Macron’s wife was shoving his face, the president rejected it and called it disinformation.
He smirked and went to say, “Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf, even though we’re setting records on knocking out bad people and knocking out ballistic missiles. We’d love to have some help. If you could, could you please send ships immediately.”
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To which the US president quoted Macron saying, “No, no, no, Donald. We cannot do that, can do it after the war is won.” And to which apparently the 79-year-old that’s what he looking at and “many have said that they would be there after the war in completed.”
The French government is bolstering its military presence in West Asia amid the escalating war. Even its flagship aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle has been deployed. During his visit to the warship, Macron said that they stand by their allies and friends. The country also has key defence agreements with nations like Qatar, Kuwait and the UAE. Over 400,000 French citizens live away from home in West Asia that is more than any EU country. More than half of this number live in Israel and over 60,000 are in the UAE.
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