After three chaotic months in office, marked by hostile and threatening statements to Europe, Donald Trump still has some people among the French of the right. Is the Rassemblementa National (RN) party by Marine Le Pen still one of them? The party has doubted, praising the substance of its movement but criticizing its style, although several tones of Trumpism coexist within the RN ranks. However, for many European populists, the president of the United States has come to represent an awkward ally, since he has been putting some of his ideas into practice with very varied levels of success: protectionism, approach with Russia, skepticism towards multilateralism, state xenophobia and transgressive decisions.
Deputy Jean-Philippe Tanguy, the main economic advisor of Le Pen, has a clear position on the subject: “Donald Trump throws populism in a negative way. I have always thought that it was toxic and that we distanced ourselves, we explain how we are.” However, he admitted that the opinion is in the minority inside the extreme right party.
In fact, the days in which Trump would cite as an example, particularly with respect to the highest tariffs on China, have been left with the aim of recovering the commercial deficit of the United States: “I would like France to do somewhere with Germany,” he said, in 2018.
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