Bizarre video showed the European leader begging an NYPD cop to help him get through on Monday, soon after he finished giving a controversial speech to the United Nations.... The French leader was then forced to make the next 30 minutes of his journey on foot through the streets of Manhattan.... Macron appeared to take the potential diplomatic incident in stride, smiling and posing for pictures with gawking passersby.
@brutofficiel Quand Emmanuel Macron appelle Donald Trump car le convoi du président américain le bloque dans les rues de New-York.
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"Macron used his trip to New York to formally recognize the “State of Palestine” on behalf of France "
Oh, in that case, let him walk everywhere and then swim back to France.
The UN needs to leave the US right after the US leaves the UN.
Zut alors!
Frog agog.
Hamas sure has sway. totalitarian terrorist threats work.
...On the weak.
I think the name Palestine is all wrong. It should be named "HamasLandia"
I'm sure the inconvenience frosted his wife's balls.
Achilles finishes the conversation at 10:15. The UN is a corrupt platform for Islam, antisemitism and Chicken Little.
Why wouldn't he wait at the UN until there was a clear route confirmed? How does he end up walking for 30 minutes? Is this how inept the French security detail is?
Never attribute to malice what can and all but I like the idea it was an intentional snub, to a French guy no less...
I guess France can’t afford a helicopter the UN probably has a pad.
One more thing: France surrenders! Dog bites man.
Aren't these the same Europeans that chide Americans for not walking enough? That endorse walkable cities? Our cities are walkable Emmanuel! Aristocrat and commoner alike! You just did it! Bien paysan!
I so want a diplomatic entity like the United Nations but it sure does seem like it's become a platform for formal appeals for graft and corruption where excepting Trump most US leadership is willing to play ball. The grifters have the Olympics, that should be enough...
Given the smiling submissiveness he took the slap from his wife a while back I'm not surprised at his reaction here. I could totally see Trump intentionally trying to delay Macron.
LOL so much winning!
Macron, ". . . because everything is closed for you."
The Donald, "Who's your daddy, Froggie?"
The Democrat Party is a Dangerous Death Cult
at 10:15, "The UN needs to leave the US right after the US leaves the UN."
The John Birch Society had it right decades ago,
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btw, the JBS is very much still alive and kicking butt.
There is a solution to Macron's dilemma, and that would be to headquarter the UN in Paris. Place de la Concorde sounds like a good spot. It wouldn't be too long till WEF Jacobins sent Thermidorean heads like his rolling again, but that's why it's befitting a headquarters. A better European headquarters shan't be found, I'll wager.
I went out to dinner last night at 7pm right in the middle of the Vegas Strip. I live 4 miles away. It took me 12 minutes to get there and park. No hassles, no lines, no waiting.
I sent my lady to Paris and Milan for a couple weeks, and she's pretty frustrated with all the getting to the public transportation, then waiting in line to get o, and the same thing at the other end. Then there was a one day strike, so nothing was working. Maybe we're spoiled, but I love having a car and being able to go where I want, when I want, and have a lockable place to store whatever I want to take with me. It maybe the pinnacle of getting around in human history until we get teleporters. Of course you need to live in the right place. I also went to the lake yesterday afternoon (30 minute drive) just me and my dog, and took a few hours boating around and fishing without seeing even a dozen people. It was my birthday, and it was a near perfect day. I love Vegas. It's easy for locals.
The U.N. should be forced to meet in a randomly selected current war zone. It might clarify the priorities a little.
Wait til' Mamdamni takes over. NYC will be amazing.
Very walkable.
The U.N. should be forced to meet in a randomly selected current war zone. It might clarify the priorities a little.
Right. The couple times I've been to New York when UN is in session I get the impression the only reason other nations show up is to go shopping on their country's money. You could force them to meet in Schenectady and it would have the same effect as a war zone...
(no jokes about Schenectady looking like a war zone outa youz..)
What does Trump have to do with NYPD? Silly Frenchman. Sacre bleu!
The French Mission to the UN is at 47th and 2nd, while the UN itself is at 46th and 1st. Don't know what hotel Macron was staying at, but it's likely he was at one of the snooty places similarly close to the UN. There are a couple of Michelin-starred restaurants also within a 10-minute walk.
Yeah, Macron and/or his staff might have had the idea to walk a short distance to their next stop, versus waiting in the exit tent for their motorcade to come around, then driving on cleared but still one-way streets, probably blocks out of their way, then looping back through uncleared streets, all to get a net distance traveled of a couple blocks.
The NYPD supervisor on the spot refused to make the common-sense decision to let Macron's party cross the street, and any higher supervisors he radioed the question up to probably would have done the same, because the street was locked down for an imminent Trump arrival or departure.
Surprised his US Secret Service detail (the USSS protects visiting heads of state and government) let him take the gamble on the street closure, unless maybe Trump was unexpectedly early or late. CC, JSM
"Maybe we're spoiled..."
No.
My wife worked as an interior designer at the Dag Hammarskjold Condominium Tower just two blocks away from the UN in the early '80s.
I only experienced the UNGA gridlock once but I also recall some protests that messed everything up nearby when I visited.
Haven't been to NYC since '96 or so, and would probably be appalled. It was a great place to visit back then.
He should try being Jewish in London. It's against the law!
**Looks like a problem with the embedded TikTok** (at least for me)
DD - Macron is a head of state on a visit to the US.
Is he supposed to call OAC? She's too busy being an lying asshole.
This sort of thing is a responsibility for the Secretary of State and the President. The State Department should have assigned a protocol officer to clear the way.
How weird. You'd think they have everything scheduled out and planned out. Heads of state are constantly making speeches to the UN.
Macron is making noises about the Genoicide in Gaza and trying - feebly - to stop it. Recognizing Palestine is a symbolic guesture. What the EU countries need to do is stop providing Isreal with aid of any kind, stop selling them weapons, and stop trading with Israel. Then Bibi might stop murdering thousands of Gaza while ethnically cleansing the area.
It'd make more sense to relocate the UN to Switzerland or Holland. There's no reason for it to be in the USA anymore.
Genocide in Gaza occurring at the hands of Hamas.
The U.N. should be forced to meet in a randomly selected current war zone.
I’m sure the South Side of Chicago qualities.
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What does Trump have to do with NYPD? Silly Frenchman. Sacre bleu!
Trump’s a King, doncha know?
"It'd make more sense to relocate the UN to Switzerland or Holland."
If the UN is going to continue being a thing (it really shouldn't...), then it needs to be in a neutral country. Neither Holland, nor especially Switzerland, are neutral regarding foreign policy any longer.
I'd suggest:
- Ireland
- Iceland
- Lichtenstein
- Bhutan
- Monaco
Switzerland would've originally been my first choice as well, but they decided to screw that up along with Finland and Sweden.
What exactly is it that they do there at the UN?
Pontification
When leftists call a duly elected president a "king" - that too is a march towards leftwing terrorism/ assassination permission structure.
USA out of UN and UN out of USA (in whichever order you prefer).
Mush Macron isn't used to walking streets in a city where people aren't getting knifed by illegal immigrant Islamofacist death cultists.
JIM said, "What exactly is it that they do there at the UN?"
Model corruption mostly. It's a UN tradition.
Sting gave us 'An Englishman in New York'. Let Macron give us 'A Parisian in New York'.
Omigod....The People!
"DD - Macron is a head of state on a visit to the US.
Is he supposed to call OAC? She's too busy being an lying asshole."
Would you call the President of the European Council if you got a parking ticket in Portugal? Calling Governor Hochul might make sense. Calling Trump just reveals that Macron doesn't understand how our system works.
I'll bet the Gnomes of Zurich would be touched by the oft-expressed concern for their good name and prosperity, if they paid any attention to Althouseblog.
Hated for being neutral, hated for taking a side. What's a small non-aggressive country to do?
FWIW I wouldn't inflict the UN on any European country.
What about Brazil, or Indonesia?
I call bullshit on the whole thing. One, there is now way that Macron didn't know about the traffic disruptions - apparently every single other world leader were informed and managed not to get "caught out on the streets." Two, there is no way Macron has a direct number for Trump, that required going through no secretaries/assistants/aides and was instead directly "answered" by Trump himself (or that Trump stayed on the line while Macron walked several city blocks with nothing in particular to talk about). We have no idea who was on the other end of that call (assuming it was something more than just a dial tone). If Trump had been on the line, someone would have leaked something that he said to paint him as literal Hitler.
I dunno Tommyesq, look at what Macron is married to:
I think you don't you give him enough credit for his obliviousness and stupidity.
"What about Brazil"
TAMBÉM NÃO OS QUEREMOS!
DD - no to all of those.
But I might call Trump. He's very accessible and helpful.
Trump should have told him: "I can't help you. When I go out in New York they try to put me in jail and claim I rape ugly women."
OK, RSM. What about Bolivia?
The great late John Lukacs wrote that the original UN idea might have worked--the (assumed) big, responsible countries would ride herd on the small, irresponsible ones. Then it was decided that all countries--even largely fictive countries--are equal.
There's that damn equality notion again.
Macron is not stupid, he is a lot of things, he acts like a sociopath, he puts his own political fortunes and that of his cronies in France and in Europe over the well being of his own country, but he's not stupid.
He is big mad that oldsters in France don't want to take pension cuts in order to send the money to Ukraine, though. Although France has a lot more problems than that, but he does not want to relinquish control of foreign policy in order for France to address them.
@Narr, how about Eniwetok. They can build HQ on the Runit dome and then everyone will know exactly who they are when they glow in the dark.
@bagoh20, Macron responded, "We have a bit in common...when I go out Americans claim I'm raped by an ugly man."
"Two, there is no way Macron has a direct number for Trump, that required going through no secretaries/assistants/aides and was instead directly "answered" by Trump himself (or that Trump stayed on the line while Macron walked several city blocks with nothing in particular to talk about)."
This part is completely believable. There are lots of accounts of Trump just picking up his phone and the caller being surprised.
“ If the UN is going to continue being a thing (it really shouldn't...), then it needs to be in a neutral country. Neither Holland, nor especially Switzerland, are neutral regarding foreign policy any longer.”
Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica.
Surprisingly, seven countries (the US is not one) lay claim to parts of Antarctica, and some of those claims overlap. Marie Byrd Land is the pie slice not claimed by anyone.
Trump got to the UN, and when he stepped onto the escalator, it suddenly stopped working. Then when he started his one-hour speech, the teleprompter stopped working.
That's how the Progressive Left moves.
I hereby claim Marie Byrd Land, and the mineral rights.
Don't forget the glitchy mic too!
@RideSpaceMountain, or maybe Greenland?
I think I could be down with Greenland and Antarctica. The cold would work well in keeping great cohorts of humanity away from the UN, benefitting all.
"A Frenchman in New York" (1962) is a six-movement orchestral suite by prolific French composer Darius Milhaud, commissioned by RCA Victor and premiered by the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler in 1963" - Wikipedia
Those oligarchs disrupted my Manhattan workdays for years. Move the UN to Martha's Vineyard.
Having been frequently inconvenienced by official motorcades of dubious importance, I have no sympathy for Macron. How many people does he routinely inconvenience motoring around Paris? It must be quite a shock to him to be treated like one of the plebes.
It looks like he took it all in good stride. Plus, the streets of downtown NYC are probably safer than the streets of Paris nowadays!
I appreciate Macron’s efforts to combat global warming.
I formally request the US leaves the U.N.. and the U.N. be moved out of NY and to Haiti... if they wanna stay corrupt.. they can stay in Haiti.. or hell for all I care.
“I appreciate Macron’s efforts to combat global warming.“
One of the major geopolitical issues with Trump’s UN speech is his complete concession of post-carbon energy leadership to China.
post-carbon energy leadership
Does that mean something to you?
Was everything closed for Trump or did it just coincidentally stop working for Trump?
"Energy leadership" as China sees it is a way to get its rivals to hobble themselves for absurd reasons, while China gets to do as it seems best.
“I ended SEVEN wars ... I never even received a phone call from the UN offering to help...”
“These are the two things I got from the United Nations: a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter. Thank you very much.”
Perfect.
Kakistocracy said...
“I appreciate Macron’s efforts to combat global warming.“
One of the major geopolitical issues with Trump’s UN speech is his complete concession of post-carbon energy leadership to China.
LOL.
You are just trying to say the dumbest things possible at this point.
“I ended SEVEN wars ... I never even received a phone call from the UN offering to help...”
To be fair, how does ending conflicts benefit UN ambassadors, anyway? Especially for the ones from shithole countries who'll take advantage of any chance they can get to leave them and come to the US for at least a little while...
“I appreciate Macron’s efforts to combat global warming.“
About 70% of France's electricity is generated by nuclear plants, so it's a genuine carbon-free grid.
"How are you? Guess what, I’m waiting in the street because everything is closed for you," said French president Macron telephoning Donald Trump from a street in New York City.“
To me that sounds like Macron was joking with Trump. If he was pissed, then Macron comes off looking like an elitist prick.
When there are a lot of top diplomats around sometimes they will not all get to go right away, they may need to sit in a sweet lounge inside the UN for a bit until the streets clear out.
How are you?
Oh, I'm okay
This is a nice place
It's so hot today
The nations of Europe, individually and collectively, need to come to terms with the fact that they have a level of military power that translates to powerlessness. They have a population and an economy that are incapable of doing much more than putting on a helluva parade.
Macron is reminding Trump he is so powerful that all of New York City must grind to a halt for him.
Brown nosing bigly
I think that Starmer inviting Trump for a ride to the castle in a golden carriage wins brown noser of the century.
"It is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no nation is bound to acknowledge any obligation to another, beyond the dictates of its interest.” - George Washington
European leaders should take note that we are not somehow duty bound to get involved in their squabbles.
Macron can't take a hint.
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