Left-wing French politician Raphaël Glucksmann has triggered a transatlantic spat after joking that the US should return the Statue of Liberty, given as a gift to the US by France in the 19th century, as the country has taken the “side of the tyrants” under Donald Trump. The tongue-in-cheek remark did not go down well at the White House, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying that “it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now”.
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