President-elect Donald Trump held court docket in France Saturday, receiving keen greetings from a bunch of acquainted world leaders as he attended the reopening of Paris’ Notre Dame Cathedral.
Video went viral of the as soon as and future president making his method to his seat, and stopping to shake fingers with heads of state. President Biden didn’t make the journey, and Trump sat close to first girl Jill Biden and their daughter, Ashley, who additionally warmly greeted the incoming president.
Social media customers had been fast to level out the pomp and circumstance – together with a purple carpet – that was rolled out for Trump in a approach usually reserved for a sitting president.
“If this complete factor had been written as a film plot, Hollywood would have taken a go as a result of it could be seen as too far-fetched,” one individual wrote in a touch upon X.
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“President Trump is greeted by Prince William, world leaders & heads of state from all around the world on the official reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. It’s protected to say the US is effectively & actually again & revered on the world stage,” one other individual commented.
“Exhausting to inform if this was the re-opening of Notre Dame or the re-opening of Trump as international chief,” Fox Information contributor Raymond Arroyo posted on X.Â
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President-elect Donald Trump talks to Britain’s Prince William, Prince of Wales, in Notre Dame Cathedral earlier than France’s iconic cathedral is formally reopening its doorways for the primary time since a devastating hearth practically destroyed the 861-year-old landmark in 2019, Saturday Dec.7, 2024 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin, Pool by way of AP)
“So it seems Trump is performing president already. No want for inauguration. The world has been ready for the US to lastly have management, and it simply walked within the door at Notre Dame,” the parody account Not the Bee wrote.Â
“One after the other, world leaders rise to greet President Trump. That is what respect for our President and nation seems like,” Former Assistant Treasury Secretary Monica Crowley posted on X.
Whereas contained in the cathedral, Trump was additionally greeted by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in addition to Britain’s Prince William, who the president-elect met with later on the British ambassador’s residence in Paris.Â
“A superb man, this one. He’s doing a incredible job,” Trump instructed reporters whereas shaking fingers with Prince William.Â
Forward of the occasion, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron, and the 2 shook fingers in a gesture that rapidly went viral on-line.
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French President Emmanuel Macron meets with President-Elect Donald Trump on the Elysee Palace on December 7, 2024 in Paris, France. (Oleg Nikishin)
“President Trump is again to dominating world leaders together with his handshake,” one person, George, wrote in a put up on X. “Macron goes to wish a hand therapeutic massage in any case that twisting and pulling Trump did to him.”
“President Trump manhandles French President Emmanuel Macron with probably the most dominating handshakes I’ve ever seen,” stated commentator Drew Hernandez. “We’re so again.”
Trump’s handshakes with world leaders have gone viral over time, together with when he pulled in Russian President Putin’s arm throughout a handshake on the G-20 Summit in 2019.
Noticeably lacking from the festivities was President Biden, who declined an invite to attend the Notre Dame ceremony, 5 years after a devastating hearth wrecked the centuries-old Paris landmark, with the White Home citing a “scheduling battle.”
Trump’s look marked his unofficial return to the worldwide stage and a reminder that he’s rapidly turning into the middle of the world’s consideration.
“That is with out query a significant second in French historical past and the truth that Macron needed to share it with Trump speaks to the importance of what Trump is reaching even earlier than he will get to the Oval Workplace once more, stated Brett Bruen, a public affairs and strategic communications veteran, and former U.S. diplomat who served beneath each Democratic and Republican administrations.
“He’s being feted fairly actually in Paris with all of the glitz and glamour,” Bruen, president of the World Scenario Room, added.
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The journey to Paris comes per week after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rapidly made an unannounced cease in Mar-a-Lago to dine with Trump after the president-elect threatened a commerce struggle with Canada and Mexico.Â
Fox Information Digital’s Aubrie Spady and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.Â
