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French President Emmanuel Macron has compared telephone conversations with Donald Trump to making sausages, saying it is better to experience the finished product than examine the contents.

During a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Paris, Mr Macron was quizzed about US reports that Mr Trump thought a recent phone call with the French president was “terrible”.

Mr Macron borrowed a famous quote he attributed to 19th-century Prussian statesman Otto Von Bismarck to illustrate his personal policy of refraining from making off-the-record comments about his conversations with world leaders.

A readout from the French presidency of Mr Macron’s call with Mr Trump last week said the 40-year old president had told his US counterpart that his decision to slap tariffs on the exports of US allies was both “illegal” and a “mistake”.

The shorter White House readout of the same call said the conversation had focussed on trade and immigration, without elaborating.

“Macron thought he would be able to speak his mind, based on the relationship. But Trump can’t handle being criticised like that,” CNN quoted an unidentified source familiar with the call as saying. “Just bad. It was terrible.”

Mr Macron has kept the press at a distance after he was dismayed by his predecessor Francois Hollande’s frequent off-the-record comments to reporters during his presidency.

“You can go and ask the people who make comments, but here in Paris we don’t make comments on how it went, or how hot, cold, warm or terrible things are. We just go ahead and do things,” Mr Macron said.

He added that he would have a “useful” and “frank” exchange with Trump at the G7 summit in Canada on 7-8 June about both issues on which they agree and those where they disagree.

A White House communications aide who drew criticism for reportedly joking about Senator John McCain's cancer has left her role, an official says.

]It's horrible that liberal phony outrage was able to cost someone their job. We really should consider transporting all the liberals to Guantanamo where they will not be able to harm anyone but each other.

Should Schlapp and/or Trump be transported to Guantanamo as well?

“Macron thought he would be able to speak his mind, based on the relationship. But Trump can’t handle being criticised like that,” CNN quoted an unidentified source familiar with the call as saying. “Just bad. It was terrible.”

It's horrible that liberal phony outrage was able to cost someone their job.

And a whole lot of evidence

I'd love to see Trump in an orange apparel.

I would like to see him in an orange apparel purely for the aestetic effect.

It wouldn't be diplomatic

Who knows, orange could be the color of Macron's prayer rug.

I suppose, you're referring

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Re: coldjoint (Post 6655598)
However, that is not what Trump was tweeting about and nor what they piece was fact checking. It is the accelerated rate of the separations as a result of the zero tolerance policy put in place in April.

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According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 650 children were separated from the parents at the border during a two-week period in May.

FACT CHECK: Are Democrats Responsible For DHS Separating Children From Their Parents?
May 29, 20184:02 PM ET
BRIAN NAYLOR

Over Memorial Day weekend, President Trump tweeted that people should "put pressure on the Democrats to end the horrible law that separates children from there parents once they cross the Border into the U.S."

The president implied that children were being separated from their parents at the border because of a law enacted by Democrats.

Actually, the policy in question was enacted by his own administration.

On May 7, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a speech that "If you're smuggling a child, then we're going to prosecute you, and that child will be separated from you, probably, as required by law. If you don't want your child separated, then don't bring them across the border illegally. It's not our fault that somebody does that."

Sessions announced the policy in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Under U.S. law, entering the country illegally is a crime. The Trump administration has decreed that such attempts will be prosecuted, meaning the adults are detained, and any children who accompany them are separated.

White House chief of staff John Kelly told NPR's John Burnett earlier this month that "the children will be taken care of — put into foster care or whatever. But the big point is they elected to come illegally into the United States and this is a technique that no one hopes will be used extensively or for very long. "

Advocates note that many families attempting to enter the U.S. are seeking asylum from gangs and criminal activities in their home countries, and as such are not breaking the law. The U.S. is obligated to accept asylum-seekers under U.S. and international law if they can show a "credible fear" of persecution or torture.
https://www.npr.org/2018/05/29/615211215/fact-check-are-democrats-responsible-for-dhs-separating-children-from-their-pare

.So who is taking care of the children confiscated at the border?????