{"id":447593,"date":"2025-09-24T05:24:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447593\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T05:24:16","slug":"frances-macron-calls-trump-after-being-stopped-by-police-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/447593\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Macron calls Trump after being stopped by police in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get US President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the UN General Assembly, he proved it.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a New York street \u2013 they told the French president the road was closed to let a VIP motorcade pass \u2013 Macron fished out his phone and dialled his US counterpart.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cHow are you?\u201d Macron said. \u201cGuess what? I\u2019m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">French media that filmed the scene said Trump was in fact on the other end of the line, which a French official confirmed to Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Macron explained to the officers that he was trying to make his way on foot to France\u2019s diplomatic mission in New York, after he delivered a speech at the United Nations in which he announced that France was formally recognising Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cI have 10 people with me,\u201d Macron said, trying to negotiate passage across the street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get US President Donald Trump on the phone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[32,2000,299,36,150801,5335,2194,150802,4447,5336,6860,150803,149534,8406],"class_list":{"0":"post-447593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-france","12":"tag-french-media","13":"tag-french-president-emmanuel-macron","14":"tag-gaza","15":"tag-mideast-conflict","16":"tag-new-york","17":"tag-palestinian-statehood","18":"tag-qatar","19":"tag-the-associated-press","20":"tag-un-general-assembly","21":"tag-united-nations"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115257610334102218","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}