‘Absolutely not,’ White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said as she was asked to react to a French politician’s demand that the US should return the Statue of Liberty to France as Trump is now siding with the tyrants, the French European parliament member said. Raphaël Glucksmann of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats said the US despises the Statue of Liberty it seems given its treatment with Ukraine and so it’s better that they give back to France what they received as a gift from France about 140 years ago.
“Give us back the Statue of Liberty. We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty.’ We gave it to you as a gift.”
“The second thing we’re going to say to the Americans is: ‘If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world’s leading power, then we’re going to welcome them,’” he said.
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With a chuckle, Leavitt dismissed the suggestion that the US should give back the Statue of Liberty to France. Calling Glucksmann a low-level politician, Karoline said, “My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States Of America that the French are not speaking German right now. So, they should be very grateful, to our great country.”
The Statue of Liberty, in Upper New York Bay, commemorates the friendship between the US and France. Weighing about 450,000 pounds, a woman stands 305 feet tall holding a torch in her right hand and a tablet bearing the adoption date of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776) in her left.
