French parliamentarian Raphel Glucksmann who made it to the international headlines as he demanded the Statue of Liberty back from America and White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt showed him his place posted a long clarification of what he meant when he said Statue of Liberty should be back to France and how it was not a literal thing.
“No one, of course, will come and steal the Statue of Liberty. The statue is yours. But what it embodies belongs to everyone. And if the free world no longer interests your government, then we will take up the torch, here in Europe,” Glucksmann said adding that he’s petrified by the Trump administration.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a sharp jibe, reminded the French politician that had it not been for the US, France would have been speaking German now.
Glucksmann acknowledged the sacrificed of the American heroes and said he would not have been there if thousands of young Americans did not fight against tyrants.
But that America was against fascism, against tyrants and not “the friend of Putin”, Glucksmann said hammering home his point of frustration with Donald Trump administration’s stand in the Russia-Ukraine war — the recent treatment Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy received in the White House. Glucksmann also lamented the recent firing of the US staff as part of the cost-cutting efforts of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
“It celebrated science and didn’t fire researchers for using banned words. It welcomed the persecuted and didn’t target them. It was far, so far from what your current President does, says, and embodies.”
“This America, faithful to the wonderful words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty, your America, is worth so much more than the betrayal of Ukraine and Europe, xenophobia, or obscurantism.”
“We all in Europe love this nation to which we know we owe so much. It will rise again. You will rise again. We are counting on you.”
