Hey, America: Give that Statue of freedom Back to France. The demand comes from a French politician who makes headlines in his country because they point out that the USA is no longer worthy of Lady Liberty. The monument was a gift from France almost 140 years ago, According to Associated Press.
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Raphaël Glucksmann is a member of the European Parliament and Co-President of a small left-wing party in France. He did not say to speak for all of his compatriots. Last weekend, however, he gave a speech that shakes the table and stirred social media relationships. Glucksmann announced that some Americans “decided to switch to the tyrant side”. His comments come in the middle of the European chatter that the shift of President Donald Trump triggers in foreign and domestic politics.
“Give us back the Statue of Liberty,” said Glucksmann, spoke to followers of his public place party on Sunday, who applauded and whistled. “It was our gift to you. But apparently they despise them. So she will be happy with us here. “
Glucksmann appeared in additional comments on the Trump administration, who reported that the financing for research institutions reduced. “The second thing we will tell the Americans is:“ If you want to discharge your best researchers if you want to dismiss all people who have made your country the leading power of the world through your freedom and your feeling of innovation, your taste for doubts and research, we will welcome you“, Said the politician.
Can France really snap the statue of Liberty?
The short answer? Continue dreaming. UNESCO, the United Nations’ Cultural Arm, realizes that the iconic monument is the US government. The organization has the statue on its list of World Heritage Sentences. It was originally seen as a monumental gesture of the French-American friendship to mark the 100th anniversary of the declaration of independence of July 4, 1776, the declaration of independence.
Then a war of Prussia between France and German states in 1870 shifted the energy of the designer of the monument, a French sculptor named Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi. The financing for Lady Liberty was left. Ultimately, the French agreed to pay the statue and the Americans would cover the costs of their podium. After the statue was transported from France in 350 parts, it was officially unveiled on October 28, 1886.
The French politician is alone … for now
France, the country, does not demand that the Statue of Liberty will come home. French-US Relations would have to give up a cliff before Glucksmann found support from the government of French President Emmanuel Macron. The French president is currently kicking a fine line. Macron tries to work with Trump and to alleviate part of his political shifts on the one hand. On the other hand, he also pushes back hard against some decisions of the White House, especially against Trump’s tariff hikes.
Nevertheless, Macron has a more critical voice for his Prime Minister François Bayrou. Bayrou tore the “brutality” that Trump and Vice President JD Vance showed during his visit to the White House to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. In addition, he suggested that Trump’s government had won Russia when she held military help to Ukraine.
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But Glucksmann’s party was even more critical. On his website, it has published accusations that Trump exercises “authoritarian” and prepares to deliver the Ukraine on a silver plate to Russia.
In his speech last weekend, Glucksmann moved from the words of New York Poet Emma Lazarus about the statue. Before that, she wrote, the “mighty woman with a torch” who promised to freely breathe for the “hidden masses that long for it”.
“Today this country ends as it was,” said Glucksmann.
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Associated Press employees contributed to this report.
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