part of trump. he didn t want to be here. he wanted to have his own parade. then he decided to come. then he wetweeted all these oth leaders were coming because he was here. that s not true at all. they didn t come because of him. that s the way he sees the world. at the same time, he s promoting nationalism, divisiveness, trying to tear apart nato. led to world war one and world war ii and conflicts all over the world since then, you know, people who are sensible, who have a sense of history, who have a sense of what s needed for the future of the world from climate change to just stopping disastrous wars, they don t respond well to trump, but apparently a lot of americans do. and he s going to keep pushing this line. christopher, you brought up the importance of climate change. we know president trump is not staying for the peace forum that
forum. it will be interesting to note the reaction that gets. will there be any reaction online? i can tell you there was very strong, very swift reaction online yesterday to his decision not to go to the cemetery because of the weather. the white house saying that created all sorts of security concerns, but french officials, american officials, those who served in the obama and bush administrations were very quick to criticize that decision by president trump. essentially saying there is always a plan b. there s always a contingency plan for the weather. so we ll be watching closely to see if that happens again today, but again, the focus on the long standing peace that has existed between these allies and the challenges moving forward, dara. we know that we were discussing the iron treaty with christopher dicky and how that could play into the relationship with putin. also before sort of a bromance and now we re not sure where that is. the macron with him not staying
he can expect that kind of reception. he s playing it as low key as possible. i think it s clear he doesn t like the rain. i don t know why that is. other people seem to get along in it. generally speaking he doesn t want to be here. he s acting like he doesn t want to be here. maybe he ll meet putin. what they say, we won t know. the real thing to take away from this whole incident, this whole event, this whole commemoration, is, in fact, the memory of world war one and what it did and how many people died and how important the history was. i don t think that s very important to trump. should be important for the rest of the world. you bring into play social media. we did see angela merkel in the rain alongside macron. president trump wasn t there. what kind of importance is that going to have going forward. this is disrespectful on the
sidelines of the lunch. i don t think we re going to be briefed on it extensively. just as we still don t know what was said in helsinki. the relationship between two of them is not public relationship except when putin is absorbing the praise that was heaped on him by president trump. christopher, if i may, we were just discussing with christen. she brought up the point how president trump had missed the red carpet moment. he s having a few moments on this trip to france, how is that playing out with the french people? the french people don t like donald trump. i don t think he likes them either. donald trump loves rallies. he loves rallies that are more like prowrestling events. that s not going to happen here. this is not the kind of moment
pet la petulant of president trump. he didn t want to be here. he wanted to be having his own big parade in washington. that s what was supposed to be happening here. in august he realized that s going to be so expensive. against american traditions, he decided he could come here. even in august when i was talking to diplomats, they were saying, you know, he s not going to like it on november 11. it s not going to be a big parade like the one of buastill day that he attended last year with macron which was the beginning of the bromance when he saw a massive military parade and felt like it was all about him. there s no massive military parade today. it s definitely not all about him. didn t really want to be here. he s acting just like he always acts when he s put out, petulant. i want to ask you this. the white house says no formal plans for president trump to meet with putin there in france. we saw them together at this