Another coup from Macron

The embattled French President Emmanuel Macron was as creative as he was opportunistic in inviting Donald Trump, the yet to be US president, to Paris this past Saturday with a full dose of pomp. 

The two seize the occasion to hold a hastily arranged meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy before celebrating the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral. 

The day mixed pageantry with attention to pressing global problems that were meant to distract the attention from his constituency away from the royal mess he plunged them into, when he decided to dissolve the National Assembly, early June.

Why in the world wasn’t Biden sitting in the place of Trump between Macron and his wife? This surreal scene was an excellent illustration of Macron cynicism and of our State Department stupidity. 

It’s also true that Macron did a much better job with Notre Dame’s restoration than he did with his country’s politics. 

Like the rest of us, I still wonder what Zelenskyy got out of this impromptu meeting...