A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans \u201chave chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.\u201d <\/p>\n
Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament who represents the small left-wing party Place Publique, made the comments at a rally on Sunday. <\/p>\n
\u201cGive us back the Statue of Liberty,\u201d said Glucksmann. \u201cIt was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her.\u201d <\/p>\n
The statue was a gift of friendship to America from France. Inaugurated in 1886, it represents Libertas, the Roman liberty goddess, bearing a torch in her right hand and a tablet in her left hand with the date of the US Declaration of Independence. <\/p>\n
Broken shackles lie underneath the statue\u2019s drapery, to symbolize the end of all types of servitude and oppression. <\/p>\n
On Monday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt fired back at Glucksmann. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it\u2019s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now, so they should be very grateful to our great country,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
Glucksmann then responded in a series of posts on X and Instagram. <\/p>\n
He emphasized that his gratitude to the US \u201cheroes\u201d that fought against the Nazis in WWII is \u201ceternal,\u201d before making a contrast with US President Donald Trump\u2019s recent attempts to negotiate a settlement between Russia and Ukraine, as well as Trump\u2019s public spat with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe America of these heroes fought against tyrants, it did not flatter them. It was the enemy of fascism, not the friend of Putin. It helped the resistance and didn\u2019t attack Zelensky,\u201d he wrote. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is precisely because I am petrified by Trumps (sic) betrayal that I said yesterday in a rally that we could symbolically take back the Statue of Liberty if your government despised everything it symbolizes in your eyes, ours, and those of the world,\u201d said Glucksmann. <\/p>\n
\u201cNo one, of course, will come and steal the Statue of Liberty. The statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch, here in Europe.\u201d <\/p>\n
Glucksmann is co-president of the Place Publique party, which currently holds three seats in the European Parliament, as well as one in the French parliament and another in the country\u2019s senate. <\/p>\n
Despite his party\u2019s small size, Glucksmann has received an increasing amount of attention in the French media, including an in-depth interview in political magazine Le Nouvel Obs published March 5, in which he underlined the importance that European powers step up their defense spending amid a reorienting of US policy priorities. <\/p>\n
It has also been rumored that Glucksmann is planning to run for president in elections scheduled for early 2027. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
A French politician has called on the US to give the Statue of Liberty back after suggesting that some Americans \u201chave chosen to switch to the side of the tyrants.\u201d Raphael Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament who represents the small left-wing party Place Publique, made the comments at a rally on Sunday. \u201cGive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investingsstrategist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}