French President Emmanuel Macron yesterday told Donald Trump that France was the United States' ally, and not a vassal state, after the U.S. president attacked him in a series of tweets that demonstrated how much their relationship had soured, the Yahoo News website reports today (November 15, 2018).
In five posts sent this week after a visit to Paris to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, Trump reminded France of its near-defeat by Germany in two world wars, took a swipe at its wine industry, and mentioned Macron's falling approval ratings.
Asked whether he was offended by Trump's tweets, Macron spoke at length about the long military alliance between the two countries, from America's War of Independence onwards.
"The United States are our historic ally and will continue to be. It's the ally with which we take all the risks, with which we carry out the most complicated operations. But being an ally doesn't mean being a vassal state," Macron said.
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