#French President Macron

[wherepond]

Trump caught lying again

Trump's lie corrected by Macron

Trump humiliated on world stage by France's President Macron

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell details how French President Macron humiliated Donald Trump after the United States, for the first time in history, “voted with the dictator against freedom” when it stood with Vladimir Putin in opposing a UN resolution condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Trump's lie corrected by Starmer

Trump humiliated again on world stage by British PM Starmer

During Donald Trump’s meeting and press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell says that Trump was “humiliated by his own ignorance.” Lawrence dissects both events and shares why he hopes the White House press corps took “performance notes” after The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg and British journalist Robert Peston pressed Trump on his lies.

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[gurutrends]

French President Macron will meet sectors to Discuss US Tariffs

French President Macron will meet sectors to Discuss US Tariffs The French presidency said on Thursday that President Emmanuel Macron will convene all representatives of business sectors hit by the import tariffs of the United States at the Elysee palace later in the day. GURUTRENDS reports that US President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a 10% minimum tariff on most goods imported to the…

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

What a difference 57 years makes juxtaposition of Citroën DS Presidential, 1968, by Chapron & Presidential DS N°8, 2025. French Presidents have been driven around in Citroëns since the 1950s and most famously there was an attempt on Charles De Gaulle's life when he was being driven in a DS in 1962. After the assignation attempt Chapron were commissioned to create an armoured DS-based limousine for the presidency and this car was the result. The new Presidential DS was been specially built and finished in Sapphire Blue with tricolour detailing for current President, Emmanuel Macron

[deadpresidents]

"Those who believe that bombing from the outside can save a country despite itself and against itself have always been wrong. It is absolutely essential that all strikes carried out on both sides, against energy, administrative and cultural infrastructure, and especially against civilians, must stop. Nothing justifies them and they are absolutely intolerable.

We do not want Iran to acquire nuclear weapons or the develop its ballistic capabilities, but I believe the greatest mistake today would be to seek regime change in Iran by military means -- because that would bring chaos. No one can say what comes next...We never support actions of regional destabilization. Collectively didn't we see the consequences this had in the region and elsewhere? Does anyone think that what was done in Iraq in 2003 was a good idea? Does anyone think that what was done in Libya in the previous decade was a good idea? No! I'm also thinking of our friends in the region, in Iraq, Lebanon, and elsewhere. We must help them reduce everything that, indeed, threatens their security, but they need anything but chaos."

-- French President Emmanuel Macron, on the Israel-Iran War and potential calls for regime change via military action in Iran by Israel and the United States, while speaking to reporters at the G7 Summit, Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, June 17, 2025.

[destielmemenews]

"A heavyweight politician who has been allied to Macron since he swept to power in the 2017 election campaign, Bayrou heads the MoDem party which is allied to, but not part of, Macron's centrist force.

Bayrou, 73, was acquitted in February after a seven-year-long case over the fraudulent employment of parliamentary assistants by his party, opening up a potential return to government. In 2017, he served as Macron's first justice minister but was replaced after just one month because of ethics concerns over the case."

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[is-this-working]

WHEN I TELL YOU I SCREAMED 🚢🚢🚢

@the-jam-to-the-unicorn @my-whortleberry-friend @harri-etvane

[le-panda-chocovore]

Imagine

Imagine the Prime Minister had to quit because no one supported their politics anymore

Imagine the President named someone else as their successor and everyone thought they're unqualified for the job

Imagine the New Prime Minister tries his to save the boat and, well, he's not doing the best job, but he's here at least ?

And then imagine, half a year later, the President throw a tantrum because his team is losing its power so he fire the Prime Minister (and his whole government)

Imagine the delusional President organise a new election out of nowhere genuinely thinking people would be with him on this fight

Imagine against everything the Left win and someone is proposed as the next Prime Minister but the President refused (he's allowed to but that doesn't make sense. The thing is that he's not supposed to, the people voted for the party they wanted, this should be the new government)

Imagine after almost two months without real government, the President FINALLY named a new Prime Minister that no one asked for and no one wanted

Imagine the people realizing that they voted for nothing so they started calling out the President on his bullsshit

Imagine not even a week after that half of the medias and politicians started saying that the New Guy isn't going to last long, that they'd boycott him, or that the new government is lame

Imagine every single thing the New Prime Minister proposed then is rejected so he tried to force the law to make it pass

Imagine the politicians were just waiting for this shit to propose to vote him out. And they did.

Imagine the President wasn't even in the country when this is happening and refused to come back before his official visit was over because he didn't think they'd actually vote the man out

Now imagine the Prime Minister is forced to resign after only 90 days and the President has to name a new one very soon because he's gonna meet another country's President in a few days

You can imagine that ?

Well that's what has been happening in France for the year 2024. 4 weeks left before the end of the year, I think a lot of things can still happen

[alexalblondo]

Macron literally leaning over. Putting his hand on Trumps arm. Interrupting him. Telling him he is wrong.

God. Yelled.

[imams-diary]

Macron is going to win the next Oscar Award for this acting after being slapped by his wife. 🤭💯

[emilelovesbohort]

Macron right now :

[royaldarling]

June 23, 2025

King Harald and Queen Sonja of Norway hosted a gala dinner at the Royal Palace in Oslo in honor of the French President and the First Lady.

Crown Prince Haakon, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, and Princess Astrid were also present at the dinner.

[oxaeneas]

I'm so ashamed to be french at the moment, so ashamed that my country literally voted for a group directly descending from the Nazis, ashamed that with that vote, all hope for the environment will go down the drain, ashamed that the so called ✨pays des droits de l'homme✨ vote against women, LGBT people, poor people, and literally every people who aren't white

Ashamed and angry they people don't learn, never open a f ing book

That they claim wanting to bring back french culture but only assimilate it with hunting and eating saucisson, that they probably never read french literature, not even the one proposed at schools

I'm so angry at Macron, for giving out the power like that, even tho his mantra for the presidential was "barrage contre l'extrême droite"

I'm ashamed to open comment section on Instagram, to see those heinous comments, from people whovoted for someone without a concrete program (except fight against immigration, which seems to be the cause of everything because it's the only thing they talk about)

Angry to see that things that makes France great like the carte vitale, social security, holidays and paid leave, were left program at the beginning and people seems to forget that

Furious that people who can vote, don't. That 50 percent of french people thought it didn't concern them, that they think they have the right to complain when they won't do the most basics things to have things going more their way

I am desperately angry, I don't even know how to conclude

[canadachronicles]

New Bromance Alert!!!

[speaknow-sw]

Thoughts on Justin and Hayden?? YES IT’S ME HI BAHAHAHA

IT’S YOUUUUUU MY DEAR FRENCH SPEAKING COMPATRIOT !!!

I just can’t imagine Hayden reaction without laughing when he received that specific email from the FUCKING CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER asking him to do a FaceTime in French. Peepaw did it in the « fake it until you make it » way.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Les révolutions ont du moins l'avantage de hâter l'accomplissement des idées admises, mais dont la mise en pratique est difficile ou audacieuse ; elles hâtent l'éclosion de l'avenir paresseux.

Louis-Auguste Martin, L'esprit moral du XIXe siècle (1855)

The Fifth Republic is the name of France’s current government. It began in 1958, after a coup at the hands of the French military in colonial Algeria convinced officials in Paris to dissolve Parliament. Fearing that the military could extend their control beyond Africa, the government called former general Charles de Gaulle out of retirement to hold the country together, as he did during the post-liberation years of World War II. To do so, he crafted a new constitution. Under this government, the president has substantial power, holds a term of five years (it was originally seven) and, following a change to the constitution in 1962, is directly elected by the French people. (de Gaulle held the position until 1968.)

This system of government differs dramatically from previous republics, which relied on parliamentary rule. In the Fifth Republic, the head-of-state appoints a prime minister to lead the Parliament (which is comprised of a Senate and a National Assembly), controls the armed forces and France’s nuclear arsenal, can dissolve Parliament, and can hold referendums on laws or constitutional changes.

One caveat to the president’s powers is the possibility of “cohabitation,” when the president is from a different political party than the majority of politicians in the parliament. In these cases, the president must choose a prime minister who will be accepted by the parliament, and the two share powers of governing more equitably.

But while the conditions are likely not there to bring about a sixth republic in France, the current crisis could lead to other institutional changes.

Indeed, Macron already tried to amend the constitution during his first term, with a plan to add proportional voting to the parliamentary elections and to reduce the number of MPs.

He tried again after the "Yellow Vests" protest, with a reform that would have made it easier for the parliament and citizens to launch a shared referendum, but the law didn't come to fruition.

Will the Fifth Republic last?

French political commentators and scholars have been trying to answer this question since the Fifth Republic was first founded, and it’s impossible to do more than make educated guesses. Since de Gaulle first wrote out its constitution, there have been 24 revisions of it, which have affected 2/3 of its articles. Subsequent changes to the republic have even increased the president’s clout. A 1962 referendum had the president elected by popular vote, and a 2000 referendum resulted in an alignment of the presidential and parliamentary election calendars – something that has almost always resulted in an absolute majority for the president.

So far the constitution’s flexibility and the force of the past presidents has kept the Fifth afloat. But far left agitator and presidential candidate Jen-Luc Mélenchon has been leading a march for the “sixth republic” and Marine Le Pen talking about radically reshaping France’s domestic policies, there’s no telling what might happen by the time Macron leaves office and a new President is ushered in.

Many believe that a certain regime of politics is coming to an end, of which Emmanuel Macron is the epilogue. It is both the end of a regime in the political-institutional sense – hyper-presidentialism and the weakening of counter-powers – but also the exhaustion of a certain regime of "belief" in politics, i.e., the credit we give to men and institutions. It is a symbolic crisis as much as a legal-political one.

I suspect the Fifth Republic will chug along just fine. There may be a few bits of tinkering but not much. I suspect - much like the debates for Proportional Representation in the UK, politicians of all stripes say one thing but do the opposite one in power - once someone like Marine Le Pen comes into power (she is favoured to win the next presidential elections after Macron steps aside) then I doubt she would voluntarily give up her presidential powers any more than any other politician wanting to exercise power to make policy.

At the heart of these debates of changing the Fifth Republic is the very idea of France itself as it faces changes in its society and the challenges therein. In the mind of General de Gaulle, the French presidential system was intended to reaffirm France's independence and sovereignty in the bipolar world of the Cold War. Never have both appeared so threatened.

The decline of state sovereignty is a global phenomenon at the crossroads of several simultaneous revolutions. The first is the history of capitalism, with the financialisation and globalisation of markets and the new supranational actors that are the multinationals. The second is the institutional history of Europe, with the construction of Europe, which is deconstructing the nation-states of which it is composed. The third is the history of information and communication technologies with the emergence of the GAFA [Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon] and the new authoritarian algorithmic governance that is being imposed on States and citizens. And finally there is the strategic history of Europe with the end of the Cold War and the integration of France into the Western bloc under the aegis of NATO.

Any of these would be challenging for the nation state, but all five at once is enough to make any stable democracy shudder at the foundations.

Photo: President Emmanuel Macron presides over the fête nationale ceremony on the Champs-Elysées, 14 July 2023.