President Trump mercilessly trolled French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife on Wednesday — as he ramped up his attacks on NATO allies for not joining the war against Iran.
The commander-in-chief mocked his counterpart’s marriage to Brigitte Macron after the French first lady was caught on camera slapping her husband in now viral footage.
“I call up France, Macron – whose wife treats him extremely badly,” Trump joked during a private lunch at the White House on Wednesday as he detailed asking NATO for help.
“Still recovering from the right to the jaw,” he added, referring to the infamous shove.
“And I said, ‘Emmanuel, we’d love to have some help in the Gulf even though we’re setting records on knocking out bad people and knocking out ballistic missiles. We’d love to have some help. If you could, could you please send ships immediately’.”
Trump then mimicked a French accent as he recalled Macron’s answer, saying: “‘No no no, we cannot do that, Donald. We can do that after the war is won’.”
The president’s dig came after he insisted that he was “absolutely” considering withdrawing the US from the NATO military alliance after scores of European leaders barred the United States from using military bases for the monthlong Iran conflict and balked at requests for naval support to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
At one point, he blasted the transatlantic alliance as a “paper tiger.”
When asked about Trump’s latest attack, Macron shot back that his remarks were “neither elegant nor up to standard.”
With Post wires
