Macron: My charm offensive may soften Trump’s climate stance

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron says his glamorous Paris charm offensive on Donald Trump was carefully calculated — and may have changed the U.S. president’s mind about climate change.

 

Macron defended his outreach to Trump, whose “America first” policies have elicited worry and disdain in Europe.

 

“Our countries are friends, so we should be too,” Macron said in an interview Sunday in the Journal du dimanche newspaper.

 

After a tense, white-knuckle handshake at their first meeting in May, Macron said they gained “better, intimate knowledge of each other” during Trump’s visit to Paris last week.

 

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