Everyone knows Donald Trump does not handle rejection well. But he handles it worse when it comes from foreign leaders. This time, it came from French President Emmanuel Macron, who rejected Trump’s invitation to join his so-called Board of Peace.
On Jan. 20, reporters informed Trump that Emmanuel Macron had declined the invitation to join his newly announced “Board of Peace.” Macron’s refusal was polite, deliberate, and unsurprising. French officials had already signaled that Paris viewed the board as unserious, opaque, and diplomatically incoherent. But Trump’s response while speaking to reporters in Florida before boarding Air Force One was… less diplomatic.
