French goose, African gander
23 March 2025 - 00:00
Raphael Glucksmann, a French politician from a fringe political party with one seat in the country’s legislature, has apparently angered the extremely touchy Donald Trump administration by suggesting that the US should return the Statue of Liberty. The French gave Lady Liberty to the US in the 1880s in celebration of the former British colony’s independence a hundred years earlier, as well as the freeing of slaves...
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