Macron calls Trump after getting stuck behind motorcade at U.N.

An appeal between world leaders is generally a carefully choreographed event reserved to talk about war and peace. Emmanuel Macron, France, used his hotline for President Donald Trump to complain about New York traffic.

After making a speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Monday evening, Macron found himself stuck behind a police barricade while trying to reach the diplomatic mission of his country in the city. While regular people may have patiently sat on social networks to evacuate their fury, Macron put aside all tension on his duel positions on the War of Israel in Gaza and composed his friend in the White House.

“How are you doing?” Macron was filmed by saying on his mobile phone. “Guess what?” I’m waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you! ”

He then tried to use their trafficking of traffic as an excuse to discuss heavier questions.

“I would like this weekend to have a brief discussion with Qatar and you on the situation in Gaza,” said the French chief.

After the barricade cat, an official traveling with Macron told NBC News that Macron “took the opportunity to call Donald Trump on the phone while walking, for a very warm and friendly conversation that allowed them to discuss several international questions.”

It was not possible to hear Trump’s response. NBC News contacted the White House to comment.

The police keeping the barricades seemed somewhat embarrassed to have to block the path of a world leader.

“I’m sorry president, I’m really sorry, it’s just that everything is frozen right now,” said one of them in the video. Macron seemed to joke with them that they could close his eyes crossing him, saying that he wanted to “negotiate” with them.

He was not the only world leader to undergo such unwanted traffic. Earlier in the day, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was also seen retained by the barriers.

The French media reported that Macron was able to quickly finished his trip to the Consulate.

Under the minor indignity linked to traffic, there were real frictions between the two leaders this week. Macron had just announced that France would become the last country to recognize the Palestinian state – something that Trump denounced as a reward for the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7, 2023.

“I think he honors Hamas and you can’t do this because of October 7. You just can’t do that,” Trump told journalists when he was sitting next to Macron on Tuesday.

The French chief replied that “no one forgets on October 7, but after almost two years of war, what is the result”. He added: “It’s not the right way to do it.”

Macron added Tuesday that if Trump wanted his Nobel Peace Prize for a long time coveted, he had to stop war in Gaza.

“There is a person who can do something, and it is the American president,” Macron told France BFMTV. “And the reason why it can do more than us is because we do not provide weapons that allow the war in Gaza to be waged. We do not provide equipment that allows the war to be waged in Gaza. The United States of America do it.”

France is the last European country to officially recognize Palestine as a state, joining the United Kingdom and increasing a growing list of world nations which now has more than 145. The United States, as well as Germany, Italy, Japan and a handful of others, are firmly in the minority.

Macron sought to get started like a Trump-House who can act as a counterweight to the American leader: someone who gets along with the president but is not afraid to defend European interests when the need arises.

However, their relationship blew hot and cold.

Personal interactions have been characterized by uncomfortable long hand handles and macho knee heels. And in June, Trump described Macron as a leader as “advertising research” that “is still wrong”, after Macron made comments on his counterpart’s decision to leave the G-7 summit in Canada.

Although he did not mention France by name, Trump during his UN speech told European nations that “your countries go to hell” because of their “failed experience of open borders”.