Charles de Gaulle did not trust the Americans. The leader of the French resistance against the German occupation in World War II, and future founder of the Fifth Republic, was fully aware that the Allied victory over Hitler owed everything to the United States (even though he publicly tried to downplay its importance). But after the liberation, he soon distanced himself from Washington, whose desire for tutelage he feared. “I am not anti-American simply because I am not always on the side of the U.S.,” he declared in a television interview in 1965, during the height of the Vietnam War escalation. He was not, but he did become a symbol of a certain French anti-Americanism.

Donald Trump announced on Friday that he had secured “permanent control” of the security of the Arctic territory against Denmark and Greenland, a territory that last year he suggested could be directly annexed by the United States.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has just announced one of his biggest attacks on press freedom to date. In a post on Truth Social, he said that, “with immediate effect,” he will ban the entry to the White House of three of the main media outlets in the United States, CNN, MSNOW (formerly MSNBC), and Politico, as a consequence of “their constant fake news reporting.” The president said that “other fake news media will follow the same path,” without providing further details.

Donald Trump has a yardstick, euphemistically speaking, to measure immigrants. During his first term, the U.S. president contrasted those coming from countries that were “shitholes” (Haiti and African territories, according to him) against his favorites from Norway.