Maverick to Maverick, Macron Seeks Common Ground With Trump
- Europe looks to Macron to sway Trump on trade, Iran deal
- French leader plotted tactics with Merkel before visit
Macron Seeks Common Ground With Trump
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French President Emmanuel Macron lands in Washington Monday aiming to use his rapport with Donald Trump to take the edge off the latter’s “America First” foreign policy, for Europe at least.
As 40-year-old Macron arrives for the first state visit of Trump’s presidency, the U.S. leader is threatening to upend the global trading system with tariffs on China, maybe Europe too, and to ditch the Iran nuclear accord, a key plank of western policy for containing military tensions in the Middle East.