across the atlantic where you are, the trump win was a surprise, and it seemed to shore up this idea that nationalism, populist policies were going to win the day, that the whole western democratic world was going antiestablishment. and it s true, there s been a lot of, you know, politics has changed. there s no doubt about it. but in the west here in europe, france was going to be the big test. and even though the netherlands sort of put down the anti-immigrant policies of the far right there, even though austria did that as well, france was the big, big test, because it s the second biggest economy in europe, the sixth biggest economy in the world, and what france did was going to be considered incredibly, incredibly important. so, it s a marker, it s a test, it s a turning point, and that s why it s been so phenomenally under the microscope. and of course, president trump had thrown his support, as it was, via tweets and the other such, towards marine le pen, without so far as sayin
analyst in europe has said today, it proves that open, liberal, democratic economic and political progress is actually can be electoral dynamite and not kryptonite. so, that kind of sums it up. you know, quite literally and figuratively, a new generation of politician in france, no question. he s 39 years old. he is, you know, personally popular. his wife, his spouse is incredibly popular in the press right now, and he will have to work with president trump. he is someone who has sort of been elected as the anti-donald trump, but he will have to work with the american leader, won t he? reporter: well, absolutely. and already you ve seen very quickly after the results were official, donald trump sent a tweet of congratulations to emmanuel macron and saying that he was looking forward to working with him. and of course, they will be meeting towards the end of this month at the g7 summit, perhaps at the nato summit as well.