New French President Emmanuel Macron seems to be getting more popular both in France and outside. The 39-year-old President of France seems to have challenged his 70-year-old American peer.
Not so long ago, he made his TV speech in English. While some older representatives of the French people were indignant at this move since no other president in the history of France had ever dare do so, but the French youth seemed to like this.
However, this is not the thing that challenged Donald Trump. The thing is that during the speech, Emmanuel Macron tried to rephrase Donald Trump’s slogan “Make America Great Again” into “Make Our Planet Great Again”. Some representatives of the international press said that this was an attempt to troll Trump.
How do you think ordinary people and top-ranking politicians reacted to this statement challenging Trump? With cheers! To prove the standpoint, Macron’s tweet with the slogan got over 140K retweets over the first 24 hours! Now experts start calling President Macron an anti-Trump, which is something the international liberal community has been dreaming of so long. By the way, out of the 140K retweets, around 20K came from the United States.
Many people want Macron to change the game. The thing is, France has been viewed as an elderly player on the global geopolitical arena, busy solving internal problems. The USA has been seen as a relatively young, brave and energetic player not afraid to tale the role of a global leader. However, things seem to start changing.
While Trump seem to be choosing nationalism and protectionism, Macron seems to be doing the opposite in the global geopolitical arena. For now, it’s unclear how long Macron will be able to sustain his charisma, but today the entire world seems to be loving him.
