Manon Aubry, LFI European MP, denounces the “total imperialism” of the businessman

Donald Trump, 47th elected president of the United States, will be officially inaugurated on Monday January 20 in Washington. To talk about it, franceinfo welcomes Manon Aubry, La France insoumise MEP and co-president of the left group in the European Parliament. The elected official expressed her concern after the businessman's re-election last November: “More than ever, I stand by my words”underlines l’Insoumise this Monday morning.

Manon Aubry discusses the first decrees that Donald Trump plans to take, “the exit of the United States from the Paris agreements definitively”, “tackle the rights of transsexuals, the rights of migrants”. Projects that she considers worrying. L’Insoumise also denounces “a form of total imperialism, with threats made against Canada and Greenland, which he wants to annex”.

On the economic level, “the question of tomorrow’s trade is also what the election of Donald Trump raises”underlines Manon Aubry, recalling “the establishment of customs barriers” that he wants in favor of the United States, alongside the conclusion of agreements like Mercosur, making the EU “the useful idiot of the globalized village” : “We are handing over our economy to the throes of globalization”she believes. The LFI MP would have hoped “a start in the European Union” to protect our economy, regretting that it is not “not the case”.

Watch the full interview in the video above.