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Macron resists Trump’s ‘America first’ in speech to Congress

By JOSH LEDERMAN and nuclear deal.
LISA MASCARO A day after the French
Associated Press leader had put on a show
WASHINGTON (AP) — of warmth and brother-
French President Emman- ly affection for Trump at
uel Macron drew sharp the White House, his blunt
contrasts with President speech prizing engage-
Donald Trump’s worldview ment over isolationism rein-
Wednesday, laying out a forced the French leader’s
firm vision of global leader- emerging role as a top de-
ship that rejects “the illusion fender of the liberal world
of nationalism” in a candid order. “We can choose iso-
counterweight to Trump’s lationism, withdrawal and
appeals to put “America nationalism. This is an op-
first.” tion. It can be tempting to
In the spotlight of a speech us as a temporary remedy
to the U.S. Congress, Ma- to our fears,” Macron said.
cron was courteous but “But closing the door to the
firm, deferential but reso- world will not stop the evo-
lute as he traced the lines lution of the world. It will not
of profound division be- douse but inflame the fears
tween himself and Trump of our citizens.” French President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he is introduced before speaking to a joint
on key world issues: climate Issuing a bleak warning, meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 25, 2018.
change, trade and the Iran he urged against letting Associated Press
“the rampaging work of “inside information” on
extreme nationalism shake Trump’s decision on the
a world full of hopes for Iran deal but noted that
greater prosperity.” it’s clear the U.S. president
It was a marked shift from “is not very much eager to
the simpatico Macron of defend it.”
only a day earlier during Macron saved some of his
his state visit at the White most pointed comments
House. In his first year as during the speech on
France’s president, Macron Trump administration poli-
has carefully cultivated cy on climate change, im-
as close a relationship to plicitly lamenting the presi-
Trump as any world leader dent’s moves to withdraw
can boast. But addressing from the global emissions
a joint meeting of Congress pact reached in Paris. Ma-
— an honor granted only cron said humans are “kill-
occasionally to leaders of ing our planet” and add-
close U.S. allies — Macron ed: “Let us face it: There is
confronted his differences no Planet B.” It was an al-
with Trump head-on. lusion not to an impending
As Trump weighs pulling out Trump about-face, but to
of the 2015 Iran accord, the prospect of America
Macron made clear that choosing a different path
France will not follow his under a successor, who-
lead. ever that may prove to be.
“We signed it at the initia- Asked by French reporters
tive of the United States. about his comments later
We signed it, both the during a visit to the Martin
United States and France,” Luther King Jr. Memorial,
Macron said. “That is why Macron said with a smile
we cannot say we should that he doesn’t expect
get rid of it like that.” Trump to rejoin the Paris ac-
Macron later told French cord but does expect that
reporters that he has no America will.q