[in a private message to Trump, french president Macron explains they’re aligned on Syria and Iran, but he draws the line at Greenland]

[below, a rendition of the classic meme in which Peter Griffin is being checked for skin color by a cop, the light skin tones show “Don’t touch or else”, the dark ones “Let’s colonize together :)”]

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  • Pwalabwa (any/use yours)@quokk.au
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    2 days ago

    Macron’s english fluency is no better than mine, and I’m an underclass kid who learned with a dictionary on their lap. What the fuck are they teaching in elite french schools?

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      2 days ago

      This is 100% intentionally dumbed down to Trump’s level. Would actually be surprised if Macron wrote this himself, rather than a team laboring over how they can dumb it down to a level Trump will comprehend, without stooping so low even he recognizes it as insulting or manipulative.

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        23 hours ago

        I’m not even sure about that. French politicians (even regular french people; source : je parle la langue de la baguette depuis le berceau) are notoriously awful with english 😅

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          22 hours ago

          Eh, maybe… But doesn’t this read very Trump-coded to you? There’s a pretty distinct stylistic difference between “beginner English as a second language” and “idiot native speaker” IMO.