Washington, 24 April (TNS): French President Emmanuel Macron starts a pomp filled three day state visit to Washington on Monday, a test of whether his studied bonhomie with President Donald Trump can save the Iran nuclear deal and avoid a trans-Atlantic trade war.
Macron will get the full red carpet treatment, payback for wooing Trump with military parades and a dazzling Eiffel Tower dinner in Paris last July. Symbolically, he will roll into the White House from Lafayette Square, named after the storied French general who fought in America’s war for independence, beneath dozens of fluttering tricolor French flags and a full US military color guard.
The pageantry, designed to underscore Trump and Macron’s “friendship” comes in stark contrast to the bare-bones one-day working visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel later in the week. But beyond the 21-gun salutes and dinners of lamb and “Burnt Cipollini Soubise” lurks high political danger for the 40-year-old French leader.
Trump is deeply unpopular in France and Macron, like other world leaders from Japan’s Shinzo Abe to Britain’s Theresa May, is under growing pressure to show voters the benefits of his courtship with the 71-year-old Republican.
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Looming over a joint outing to George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate on Monday evening, and working meetings and a state dinner on Tuesday, are two May deadlines that have the potential to wreck already fragile trans-Atlantic relations.
