French President Emmanuel Macrons attempt to lecture President Donald Trump over Greenland has backfired spectacularly, exposing the French leaders private deference to the very man he publicly scolds.
According to The Gateway Pundit, Macron recently issued what he called a sharp warning to Washington over renewed American interest in bringing Greenland under U.S. control, framing the idea as a direct threat to European sovereignty. The French President, already deeply unpopular at home and increasingly marginalized abroad, cast himself as a defender of Europe against alleged American overreach, even as his own record reflects the weakness of the European project he claims to champion.
Macrons remarks underscored a growing anxiety among European elites about their heavy reliance on U.S. military power and their lack of real leverage when American and European interests diverge. He told his cabinet that any violation of a European allys sovereignty would trigger consequences without precedent, insisting that France would stand in full solidarity with Denmark, even as the episode highlighted Europes strategic impotence.
President Trump, by contrast, has consistently argued that securing Greenland is a matter of national security, aimed at preventing Russia and China from gaining a strategic foothold on the Danish-controlled island. He has pressed Denmark multiple times to consider a sale and has notably refused to rule out stronger measures should Copenhagen continue to stonewall.
Early Tuesday morning, President Trump chose to respond not with more rhetoric, but with receipts, posting on Truth Social a revealing text message from Macron that painted a very different picture of the French leaders stance. In private, Macrons tone shifted from defiant to deferential, as he sought to ingratiate himself with the American President he had just publicly rebuked.
In the message, Macron grovels to Trump, as critics quickly noted, and the content bears that out. The French President tells him that, while he do[es] not understand what you are doing on Greenland, he is totally in line with Trump on other key foreign policy issues, including Syria and Iran.
Macron then proposes to orchestrate high-level diplomacy on Trumps behalf, offering to arrange a G7-related gathering in Davos that would bring together multiple parties to ongoing global crises. He further sweetens the offer by inviting President Trump to an intimate dinner in Paris that same evening, just before the American leaders return to the United States.
The contrast between Macrons public posturing and his private flattery could not be starker, revealing a leader who talks tough for domestic and European audiences while bending the knee behind closed doors to the stronger power he depends on. It is little surprise, then, that so many French citizens view him with disdain, seeing in this episode yet another example of a globalist politician who blusters in front of cameras but capitulates when real power is in the room.
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