The call among world leaders is usually a careful event dedicated to talking about war and peace. Emmanuel Macron from France used his hotline for President Donald Trump to complain about the traffic in New York.
After delivering a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday evening, Macron found himself stuck behind a police checkpoint while trying to reach his country’s diplomatic mission in the city. While the ordinary people sat with patience or transferred to social media to vent themselves, Macron has set any tension on the positions of fencing in the Israeli war in Gaza and his friend in the White House called.
“How are you?” Macron was filmed saying on his mobile phone. “Guess what? I am waiting on the street because everything is frozen for you!”
Then try to use their traffic chat as an excuse to discuss more heavy things.
The French leader said: “I would like to have a short discussion with Qatar and you are about the situation in Gaza.”
After the Barricade chat, he told one of the official travelers with Macron NBC News that Macron “took the opportunity to contact Donald Trump on the phone while walking, in a very warm and friendly conversation that allowed them to discuss many international issues.”
Trump’s response could not be heard. NBC News has arrived at the White House for comment.
Police officers who were guarding the barricades seemed somewhat embarrassing from having to prevent the path of a visiting global leader.
One of them said in the video: “I’m sorry, I am really sorry, it’s just freezing everything now.” Macron seemed to be joking with them that they could turn a blind eye, saying he wanted to “negotiate” with them.
He was not the only global leader who suffers from such a traffic insult. Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was also seen at the barriers.
French media reported that Macron is able to complete his trip to the consulate.
Under a simple traffic insult, there was a real friction between the two leaders this week. Macron has just announced that France will become the latest country that recognizes the Palestinian state – which criticized Trump as a reward for the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.
“I think he honors Hamas and you cannot do it because of October 7. You can’t do it,” Trump told reporters while sitting next to Macron on Tuesday.
The French leader re -forgotten, “No one forgets the seventh of October, but after nearly two years of war, what is the result.” He added: “This is not the correct way to move forward.”
Macron later on Tuesday added that if Trump wanted the long -awaited Nobel Peace Prize, he must stop the war in Gaza.
“There is one person who can do something about it, and this is the American president,” Macron told BFMTV. “The reason for his ability to do more is that we do not provide weapons that allow war in Gaza that they do not provide the equipment that allows the war in Gaza. The United States of America is doing.”
Establishing the exact nature of their relationship, Trump also said that Macron was “doing a really good job. He is fighting heavily. He is fighting on a lot of fronts. It helps with regard to Russia, the Ukraine disaster. His words of wisdom mean a lot.” “We have been truly friends now, really from the first chapter,” he added.
France is the latest European country that officially recognizes Palestine as a country, joins the United Kingdom and adds to an increasing list of global countries that now reach more than 145 years. The United States, along with Germany, Italy, Japan and a handful of others, in the minority.
Macron sought to throw himself as a Trump’s winner who can work as a parallel cosmic of the American leader: a person who is pursuing the president personally but he is not afraid to defend European interests when need arises.
However, their relationship has exploded hot and cold.
Personal reactions were characterized by uncomfortable nonsense and knee beating. In June, Trump described Macron as “propaganda” leader “who” always mistake “, after Macron made comments about his counterpart’s decision to leave the Group 7 summit in Canada early.
Although he did not mention France by name, during his United Nations speech, Trump told European countries that “your countries will go to hell” because of its “failed experience of the open border.”