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Macron Schools Trump On The World Stage — Without Ever Saying His Name

The French president teed off on Trump in Davos.

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President Donald Trump isn’t scheduled to arrive in Davos for the annual World Economic Forum, but he’s already being denounced from the stage by other world leaders.

French President Emmanuel Macron addressed the forum on Tuesday, while wearing sunglasses, and took shots at Trump while mostly avoiding saying his name.

“We need more growth. We need more stability in this world, but we do prefer respect to bullies,” the French President said in Davos, per CNBC. “We do prefer rule of law to brutality,” he added, in a presumed reference to Trump’s designs on taking over Greenland, and the tariffs put in place in reaction to the unwillingness of Europe to go along with it.

Macron also suggested that the EU could use what’s known as the “Anti-Coercion Instrument,” described by CNBC as a method to “restrict U.S. suppliers’ access to the EU market, excluding them from participation in public tenders in the bloc, as well as putting export and import restrictions on goods and services and putting potential limits on foreign direct investment in the region.”

Macron was also critical of Trump’s tariffs, and called for their end.

“It doesn’t make sense to have tariffs and be divided, and even to be threatened now with additional tariffs,” the French president added. “He went on to blast the Trump tariffs as “endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable, even more so when they are used as a leverage against territorial sovereignty.”

“Without collective governance, cooperation gives way to relentless competition,” Macron added. “Competition from the United States of America, through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concessions and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe.”

Some Trump opponents cheered the French leader on.

Photo courtesy of an X screenshot. 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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