Critics have slammed White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s response to a French lawmaker’s name for the Statue of Liberty to be returned to France.
Leavitt’s comment was “insulting,” “stunning” and “f**king disgusting,” stated commenters on social media.
European Parliament member Raphael Glucksmann stated Sunday that America below President Donald Trump not represents the values of freedom and democracy which have develop into synonymous with the statue. Glucksmann steered the landmark, which France gave to America to commemorate the centennial of the American Declaration of Independence, ought to come residence.
Fox Information’ Peter Doocy requested Leavitt throughout Monday’s White Home press briefing if Trump would comply with that.
“Completely not,” Leavitt replied.
“And my recommendation to that unnamed low-level French politician can be to remind them that it’s solely due to the USA of America that the French usually are not talking German proper now,” she continued.
Leavitt concluded: “So, they need to be very grateful to our nice nation.”
The remark prompted a historical past lesson on social media, given France’s help within the American Revolution, and different international locations’ roles alongside America in World Conflict II.
Michael McFaul, the Obama-era U.S. ambassador to Russia and present professor of political science at Stanford College, described it as “such a stunning, insulting assertion about an ally from anybody, not to mention a senior White Home official.”
“Who instructed her to say this? She clearly acquired in from someplace,” he added. “Im hope our @PressSec is aware of that it’s solely due to the French that we’ve got an impartial United States of America.”
Others made comparable scathing factors.
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