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Trump slips into French accent while recounting blunt phone call with Macron

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2 weeks ago

President Donald Trump broke out a French accent during a White House roundtable Friday while recounting a call he had shared with French President Emmanuel Macron regarding lowering drug prices. Trump hosted a rural healthcare roundtable Friday at the White House, where he celebrated investments made in rural communities under the "big, beautiful bill," signed in July 2025. Amid his conversation with lawmakers and health officials, Trump recounted a phone call he shared with Macron as he worked to bring parity to U.S. drug prices that were far higher than prices in Europe. "I said, ‘Emmanuel,...