[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 :)”]
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.
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 😅
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.