At the end of February 2025, the Internet was subject to information that the US president did not go out to meet his French colleague when he arrived at the White House. We decided to check if this is so.
Many Russian media said about the demonstrative neglect that Trump allegedly showed against Macron: “” “RIA Novosti","Gazeta.ru" Lenta.ru, "Moscow 24","Evening Moscow","Sight"And others - as well as users of social networks (X, "VKontakte") And the Platform blog ("Picabu","Zen"). The news was also encouraged in Telegram, where they wrote about her "Anatoly Shariy"(932,000 views at the time of writing of the analysis),"Nevzorov"(511 000),"Zerada"(262 000),"Solovyov"(257 000),"Observer"(199 000) and other popular channels. Most of the publications are accompanied by a video: the car of the French president drives up to the White House door, he is met by an employee of the Trump administration, Macron waves to reporters and enters the building.
February 24, 2025, French President Emmanuel Macron at the invitation of his American colleague Donald Trump I visited Washington, becoming First The European leader, who met with the current president of the United States after his inauguration. Heads of state discussed Possible negotiations on the end of the war in Ukraine and the necessary conditions for this. Macron He called it meeting a turning point in harmonizing the European and American positions, although Trump I did not give it No specific promises.
On the same day, the macron arrival in the White House, on which there is no owner of the residence, were hugged on the Web. Some politicians And political Journalists They began to build conspiracy theories that Trump did not meet Macron personally to show how little relations between the United States and France mean for him. Moreover, some of the journalists, whose opinion was referred by the Russian media, later Removed They noted their messages that they published them hastily.
According to schedule official events with the participation of the US President, on February 24 at 08:00 a conversation of the leaders of the "Big Seven" was planned, in which Trump and Macron took part from the oval office, and only at 12:15 - the official greeting of the French president when the American leader is indeed Meet His colleague at the entrance to the White House.
In a large part of viral publications, a video of the arrival of a macron with the S-Span logo is used. It Real And it was shot by reporters of the TV channel. “France President Macron arrived at the White House to a call with other leaders,” the video signed. Only a little later on the same day, S-Span published news About how Trump went to greet his colleague at the northern entrance to the western wing of the White House, and put the corresponding video. It is noteworthy that the first is posted only on the site, it is neither in social networks, nor on the S-Span YouTube channel, unlike the second, on which the leaders warm up, smile and shook hands for a long time. But despite the placement of more sites in a larger number, the second video did not find special popularity among Internet users.
At the same time, the practice itself, when not the head of state meets the foreign leader on a foreign trip, but the head of his protocol service is not an exceptional event that may indicate disrespect or demonstrative neglect. This happened earlier, including at the arrival of key partners of the United States in the White House. For example, over the past decade, American presidents have not met at least twice on the porch of the Prime Ministers of Great Britain: Barack Obama - David Cameron in 2015 and Joe Biden - Kira Starmer In 2024. After his second inauguration, Trump managed to miss the arrival of the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, but this did not cause much resonance then.
The allegations that one of the world leaders allegedly defiantly ignored the other is often used to build or confirm conspiracy theories. "Verified" already analyzed the news about how Macron itself Refused Brighten your hand to the same Modi, Trump I ignored The hand of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu extended for handshake, and nobody Not met At the airport during her visit to China. Typically, such statements are based on torn from context or mounted videos and therefore are not true.
Thus, Trump really did not greet Macron personally when he arrived at the White House early in the morning of February 24, but only because the solemn meeting of the French president in the presence of journalists was planned a few hours later. And in the due time, the American leader went out onto the porch of his residence to greet Macron and shake his hand. At the same time, even if he could not do this (for example, due to a tight schedule of events), this would not have any gesture of disrespect-this often happened earlier both with Trump itself and with other US presidents.
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