A French politician wants the U.S. to return the Statue of Liberty after 140 years. But it can’t actually do that

Hey, America: Give a statue of freedom to France.

This is how the French politician who issues the headlines of his country says his suggestion that the United States no longer deserves the memorial that was a gift from France about 140 years ago.

As a member of the European parliament and co -chair of a small left -wing party in France, Raphaël Glucksmann cannot ask to talk about all its citizens.

But his confirmation in a speech this week that some Americans “chose to shift alongside tyrants” reflect the wide waves of shocks that raise US President Donald Trump’s transformations in foreign and local policy in France and other places in Europe.

“They brought us back to the statue of freedom,” said Glksameman.

“It was our gift to you.

The White House fell on the comments on Monday, saying that France instead should be “grateful” to support us during the First World War and World War II.

Can France claim it?

dream.

UNESCO, the United Nations cultural arm that has a statue on the list of world heritage treasures, notes that the iconic memorial is the property of the US government.

He was initially imagined as a tremendous gesture of French -American friendship to celebrate the 100th of July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence.

But the war that erupted in 1870 between France and the German states led by Prussia has transformed the energies of the monument designer, French sculptor Friedrich Auguste.

The gift also took time to be funded, with a decision that the French will pay for the statue and the Americans will cover the statue’s base costs.

It was transferred in 350 pieces from France, and the statue was officially unveiled on October 28, 1886.

Will the government of France offer Lady Liberty asylum?

no. French relations and the United States must get a cliff before Glksmann finds support from the government of French President Emmanuel Macron.

Currently, the French president is making a high -line planner – in an attempt to work with Trump and reduce some of his policy transformations on the one hand, but also retracts some of the White House decisions, especially Trump’s introductory height.

Macron has allowed his Prime Minister, Francois Bayro, a role in being a more important voice. Payro tore the “brutality” that showed Ukrainian President Folodimir Zellinski during his visit to the White House and suggested that the Trump administration risked a victory to Russia when it stopped military aid to Ukraine.

The Geoximman Party was more important, as it posted accusations on its website that Trump was practicing power in a “authoritarian” way and “preparing to hand over Ukraine on a silver dish” to Russia.

In his speech, Ghlixsmann noted that the words of the New York poet Emma Lazaros about the statue, “the great woman with a flame” and promised a house for “homogeneous masses that yearn for breathing”.

“Today, this land stops being what it was,” said Glksamen.

What does the White House say?

White House press secretary Caroline Levitte was asked on Monday about the comments of Glucherman, and he replied that the United States is “no” at all “contradicts the iconic statue.

“My advice to the low -level French politician whose name is noted is to remind them that only because of the United States of America that the French are not talking to German at the present time,” Levit said, apparently refers to the United States fighting with the Allied forces to liberate France from the Nazi occupation in World War II, along with France during the First World War. “It should be very grateful.”

But the debts of gratitude run both directions. Levitt has skipped France’s main role in supporting the future of the United States during its war for independence from the United Kingdom.

Leavitt is one of the three administration officials who face a lawsuit from the Associated Press on the basis of the first and fifth modification. AP says that the three are punishable by the news agency for the editing decisions they oppose. The White House says AP does not follow an executive order to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-03-17 20:46:00