Donald Trump is no longer the annoying friend of the National Rally (RN). Reelected president of the United States, he is no longer the sulphurous candidate and possible bad loser with whom it seemed risky to associate twenty-four hours earlier. On Wednesday, November 6, at dawn, after the little hands of the Lepenist party vibrated all night before the scene of a clear victory for the former pariah, the RN deputies were able to freely express their satisfaction: Donald Trump is once again praised to the heavens . by the mass of elected officials of the extreme right, who see in their victory revenge against “wokism” and the media, including the French. Celebrations that could come back to haunt the RN if Donald Trump implemented his program, including increasing customs tariffs against European products and ending aid to Ukraine.
“What a lesson for all these bazaar democrats”Louis Aliot, vice president of the National Rally, wrote on Wednesday on the State of Georgia social network and for trying to annul the results of the presidential elections of January 6, 2021, the day of the attack on the Capitol. In the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, on Wednesday morning, the RN deputy for Isère Alexis Jolly gave a long speech welcoming the victory of Donald Trump: which, in his opinion, of “public policies closer to the daily concerns of American citizens, immigration, security, reindustrialization”.
The lepénist deputies thus returned to their natural channel, where the most uninhibited extreme right, Eric Zemmour and Marion Maréchal, but also Eric Ciotti, were waiting for them. The former head of the right, a minority ally of Marine Le Pen, wanted, on Wednesday, to be the first French politician to rejoice at Donald Trump’s victory, in a message sent on “bringer of hope for the United States, (…) for the world (…) and France »Eric Ciotti then filmed a video, with the red MAGA (Make America Great Again) cap as evidence, taking up the Trumpist and penisist vulgate of a man against “the media system” –, but backed by the country’s main news channel (Fox News) and the owner of the social network X (Elon Musk).
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