“You have no idea what I did in the White House.” During a speech in Duluth, Georgia, this Thursday, October 24, Donald Trump praised his career as a former president when discussing his protectionist policy.
“I stopped the wars with France,” he said at an event for Turning Point USA, a conservative organization to which the Republican candidate has entrusted door-to-door operations for his campaign.
“They were going to make us pay”
“France. Do you know the history of France? They were going to charge all of us Americans, think about it, 25%. I have to protect American companies, whether we like them or not, and I didn’t even like some of them,” he continued in his usual disjointed speech.
The former American president alluded, greatly exaggerating, to the trade conflict that confronted Paris and Washington in 2019. That year, France imposed a tax on digital giants, mainly American, known as the “Gafa” tax.
This tax, which Emmanuel Macron wanted to be European and global, took 3% of the turnover obtained by these companies in France. In retaliation, Donald Trump threatened to impose heavy taxes on French wine imports.
In front of his followers, Donald Trump boasted of having brought the French president to his knees, repeating – as he did at the beginning of January – their alleged conversation and imitating Emmanuel Macron’s French accent.
“We are no longer a stupid country, Emmanuel,” Donald Trump reportedly told him, who claims to have given the French head of state “three minutes” to find a solution to the blockade. “It reminds me: ‘Donald, I have withdrawn the tax,'” Emmanuel Macron would have declared then, according to Donald Trump’s account.
Source: BFM TV
