Barely elected in 2017, with the energy of his 39 years, the freshness of a first term and pragmatism as a method, Emmanuel Macron launched a charm offensive against Donald Trump, installed only a few months ago in the White House.
The French president had been able to match the disturbing and disruptive personality of Donald Trump, to whom he had offered in Paris a dinner at the Eiffel Tower and the July 14 military parade.
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Yet, despite his best efforts, he never succeeded in influencing Donald Trump.
The American president withdrew from the Paris climate agreement, he tore up the Iranian nuclear compromise (JCPoA) and did his French ally a false good by withdrawing some of the American troops in the Middle East.
Emmanuel Macron's "seductive realism" has not taken on Donald Trump any more than it has worked on Vladimir Putin.
However, if neither of the two candidates for the American presidency really suits French interests, the
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