This Saturday, therefore, the two hours spent face-to-face between Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump on the terrace of the Hôtel du Palais will have made it possible to resolve a subject of discord, that of the French tax on digital technology, judged ” stupid” in July by Trump, who threatened French wine with retaliatory taxes.
The strategy used on this occasion by Macron seems to have worked: pleading the misunderstanding, asserting that the Gafa tax was provisional, and would be abandoned as soon as an international agreement was reached at the OECD. 2025 thus sounds like déjà vu where Trump’s style does not seem to have changed one bit. Like the one focused on the cliché of the Franco-American couple, which has become a trademark in its political communication.
Melania, the discreet essential
In the wake of Trump representation, the discreet but no less influential Melania is never far away. In Espelette, on Sunday morning, Brigitte Macron orchestrates an express tour of the village designed for the first ladies, before taking them to lunch privately in Arnaga. A little later, Melania attracted a shower of comments on the networks, eager for the little things, while in the official photo, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gave the American First Lady a kiss. Oh my God!
-During the official photos of the G7, Justin Trudeau kisses Melania Trump, under the amused gaze of the Macron couple and Angela Merkel.
Archives Jean-Daniel Chopin
On the political level, Donald Trump is inevitably in charge. On the morning of Sunday August 25, 2019, a meeting took place around breakfast between Boris Johnson and the American president, deemed to meet expectations. “Our countries are going to conclude a fantastic trade agreement,” says Johnson, who has attracted a grandiose promise from the American: “You are the right man to make Brexit a success and we will quickly conclude an agreement like it. never was.” History has proven the British Prime Minister right, without prejudging the outcome: Brexit shook the kingdom’s economy and Boris Johnson will have been forced to resign from office in 2023, after controversial management of Covid and the affair of Partygate.
