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This combination of file photographs created on January 18, 2026 shows France's President Emmanuel Macron looking on as he takes part in a ceremony at the Memorial de la Shoah, the Holocaust museum in Paris on January 27, 2025 (L) and US President Donald Trump as he takes part in a roundtable discussion in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on December 10, 2025. [AFP]
US President Donald Trump made fun of the French president and his wife during a private lunch Wednesday, as he lambasted NATO allies for not joining the war against Iran that has roiled the Middle East.
"We didn't need them, but I asked anyway," Trump told a private lunch in a video posted briefly on the White House YouTube channel before access was blocked.
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