Trump has a HUGE ego: Macron ready to get his OWN WAY on state visit
French President Emmanuel Macron plans to shower Donald Trump with compliments in a bid to get his own way during the White House’s first official state visit since the US President took office.
Mr Macron’s approach to dealing with his egoistic American counterpart is more “psychological than strategic,” according to French political scientist Pascal Boniface.
He told France’s Europe 1 radio: “Mr Macron’s approach to dealing with Donald Trump is far more psychological than strategic: he knows that Mr Trump has a huge ego and that all he needs to do in order to appease him is to butter him up.”
He said: “Macron is a realist: he knows that Trump is going to be around for most of his mandate, maybe even longer because we cannot exclude the possibility that he will be re-elected.
“His aim is to shower Mr Trump with compliments, while never veering away from his own political line and openly discussing their differences of opinion.”