{"id":449030,"date":"2025-09-24T23:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449030\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T23:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:15:13","slug":"everythings-frozen-for-you-stopped-on-the-street-by-nyc-police-frances-macron-calls-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/449030\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Everything\u2019s frozen for you&#8217;: Stopped on the street by NYC police, France&#8217;s Macron calls &#8230; Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PARIS &#8212; French President <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/emmanuel-macron\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emmanuel Macron<\/a> likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the phone any time he wants. In New York for the U.N. General Assembly, he proved it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Blocked on Monday night by police officers when he sought to cross a New York street \u2014 they told the French president the road was closed to let a VIP motorcade pass \u2014 Macron fished out his phone and dialed his U.S. counterpart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cHow are you?\u201d Macron said. \u201cGuess what? I\u2019m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">French media that filmed the scene said Trump was in fact on the other end of the line, which a French official confirmed to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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 class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/un-israel-palestinians-france-saudi-recognition-two-states-88f3a87f7d79df02311f09b3e45560e9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a speech at the United Nations<\/a> in which he announced that France was formally <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/france-recognizes-palestinian-statehood-at-un-meeting-to-revive-peace-efforts-6458c46cc813415482eaccc9524b07ce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recognizing Palestinian statehood<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI have 10 people with me,\u201d Macron said, trying to negotiate passage across the street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI\u2019m sorry President, I\u2019m really sorry, it\u2019s just that everything\u2019s frozen right now,\u201d one of the police officers told Macron.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">But since he had Trump\u2019s ear, Macron used the opportunity to keep chatting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">\u201cI would love this weekend have a short discussion with Qatar and you on the situation in Gaza,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">French media said Macron was able to continue his walk a few minutes later when the street reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/france-macron-recognition-palestinian-state-f06b7d2d1b6c19c50a876cc723bd1d94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">galvanizing support for a two-state solution<\/a> to the Mideast conflict. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PARIS &#8212; French President Emmanuel Macron likes to say that he can get President Donald Trump on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":449031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[151120,3907,2000,299,36,4179,285,263],"class_list":{"0":"post-449030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-151120","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-france","13":"tag-general-news","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115261821745251625","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449030","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=449030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}