Article 6VZTN French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

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Ramon Antonio Vargas
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Raphael Glucksmann quips that US should give back 19th-century gift from France over Trump's approach to Ukraine

A French European parliament member has quipped that the US should return the Statue of Liberty, which it received as a gift from France about 140 years ago, after Donald Trump's decision to side with the tyrants" against Ukraine.

Trump's White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, then responded to Raphael Glucksmann on Monday by calling him an unnamed low-level French politician" and saying the US would keep the statue.

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