{"id":36255,"date":"2025-03-17T20:03:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/white-house-press-secretary-says-statue-of-liberty-going-nowhere-replies-to-french-politician\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T20:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T20:03:43","slug":"white-house-press-secretary-says-statue-of-liberty-going-nowhere-replies-to-french-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/white-house-press-secretary-says-statue-of-liberty-going-nowhere-replies-to-french-politician\/","title":{"rendered":"White House press secretary says Statue of Liberty going nowhere, replies to French politician"},"content":{"rendered":"

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt chastised a low-ranking French politician<\/a> who made headlines for demanding that the United States return the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During a Monday press briefing, Leavitt reminded Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, that he would be speaking German if it weren’t for American troops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy asked Leavitt on Monday if President Donald Trump<\/a> would give the Statue of Liberty, which has graced New York City’s harbor since the 1800s, back to France.\u00a0<\/p>\n

FRENCH PARLIAMENT MEMBER WANTS US TO RETURN STATUE OF LIBERTY: ‘APPARENTLY YOU DESPISE IT’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Absolutely not,” Leavitt said with a smile. “And, my advice to that unnamed, low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States of America that the French are not speaking German right now.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“So they should be very grateful to our great country,” she added, nodding to how American troops liberated France from Nazi Germany’s occupation in World War II.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

In an address to supporters of his Public Place party on Sunday, Glucksmann told the United States, “Give us back the Statue of Liberty.”<\/p>\n

“It was our gift to you. But apparently you despise her. So she will be happy here with us,” Glucksmann said, garnering applause and whistles from his audience.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Glucksmann’s party has posted accusations on its website that Trump is wielding power in an “authoritarian” manner and is “preparing to deliver Ukraine on a silver platter” to Russia.<\/p>\n

In his speech, Glucksmann referenced New York poet Emma Lazarus’ words about the statue, the “mighty woman with a torch” who promised a home for the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”<\/p>\n

“Today, this land is ceasing to be what it was,” Glucksmann said.<\/p>\n

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French President Emmanuel Macron has let his prime minister, Fran\u00e7ois Bayrou, play the role of being a more critical voice of the Trump administration. Bayrou condemned what he called the “brutality” that was shown to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> during his White House visit, and suggested that Trump’s administration risked handing victory to Russia when it paused military aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n

UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural arm that has the Statue of Liberty on its list of World Heritage treasures, notes that the iconic monument is U.S. government property.<\/p>\n

It was initially envisaged as a monumental gesture of French-American friendship to mark the 100th anniversary of the July 4, 1776, Declaration of Independence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A war that erupted in 1870 between France and German states led by Prussia diverted the energies of the monument’s designer, French sculptor Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric-Auguste Bartholdi.<\/p>\n

The gift also took time to be funded, with a decision taken that the French would pay for the statue and Americans would cover the costs of its pedestal.<\/p>\n

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Transported in 350 pieces from France, the statue was officially unveiled Oct. 28, 1886.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt chastised a low-ranking French politician who made headlines for demanding that the United States return the Statue of Liberty.\u00a0 During a Monday press briefing, Leavitt reminded Rapha\u00ebl Glucksmann, a member of the European Parliament and co-president of a small left-wing party in France, that he would be speaking German … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}