President Donald Trump isn’t the leader of the free world, says French Ambassador Gérard Araud.
These days, he says, no one is.
And as Trump heads to Europe Wednesday for his first G-20 meeting as president and first face-to-face encounter with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the world needs to figure out what to do next.
“We have to define what is the free world, and today, there is no—the expression of ‘leader,’ I think, doesn’t really doesn’t fit the question,†Araud told me, in an interview for POLITICO’s Off Message podcast in his office at the French Embassy, a large, modernist complex across …read more
Source: European Voice
