'On Thursday, the two world leaders who once proclaimed themselves BFFs and who now are barely prepared to share a baguette, will find themselves on the same Normandy beach,' writes David A. Andelman for CNNOpinion
David A. Andelman, executive director of the RedLines Project, is a contributor to CNN, where his columns have won the Deadline Club Award for best opinion writing. Author of"A Shattered Peace: Versailles 1919 and the Price We Pay Today," and translator of"An Impossible Dream: Reagan, Gorbachev, and a World Without the Bomb," he was formerly a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and CBS News. Follow him on Patreon and Twitter @DavidAndelman.
On May 22, as early planning for the D-Day anniversary celebration kicked into gear, Donald Trump Jr. retweeted a cartoon that, intentionally or not, suggested the impending tone for the upcoming meeting between President Donald Trump and President Emmanuel Macron -- two individuals who see themselves as leaders of the Western world.
His father is shown proudly, hands on hips, having just bodyslammed the Democratic donkey, a TV character carrying copies of The Washington Post and New York Times, and Macron, flattened and looking dazed, as tiny French flags and Eiffel towers circle his head.On Thursday, the two world leaders who once proclaimed themselves BFFs and who now are barely prepared to share a baguette, will find themselves on the same Normandy beach.David A.
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