Mainstream media is blocking this but it is available on YouTube. I have supplied a translation below.
Je remercie le sénateur Malhuret pour son analyse perspicace de ces criminels.
“Il a incendié Trump”: le sénateur français Claude Malhuret traite le président américain de “clown”. (“He tore Trump to shreds”: French senator Claude Malhuret calls the American president a “clown”.)
English Translation
Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, Ministers. In February 2022, a dangerous madman, drunk with delusions of grandeur, lit a fuse in Ukraine that ignited a powder keg and shattered the world order. The war was supposed to last a week. It is now entering its fifth year. In February 2026, another dangerous madman lit another fuse in the Middle East, once again challenging the international balance.
Was that war also supposed to last a week? A month later, the whole world is asking itself: “What will happen?” The simple, short, and precise answer is this: God only knows.
A year ago right here, I compared the Trump presidency to the court of Nero.
I was wrong, it’s a court of miracles. (This is a French expression with which I am unfamiliar. Intensely sarcastic.)
An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict, and Minister of Health; a climate change denier, Minister of Ecology; a TV host with a drinking problem, Minister of the Armed Forces; a former Qatari agent, Minister of Justice; a Putin groupie, Minister of National Security.
A Turkish proverb says, “When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become king.” “It’s the palace that’s becoming a circus.” This crack team has decided to create a rival to the UN. Since the creation of his peace council, Trump has launched more military strikes than Biden did during his entire presidency. Every time the situation escalates, bombs explode somewhere in the world, creating a diversion. Bomb more to earn more. There isn’t a country where Trump hasn’t taken advantage of the situation to enrich himself, never forgetting his family. A personal Boeing gifted by Qatar, investments in every project in the Gulf and elsewhere, stock market manipulation benefiting a select few.
Any one of these conflicts of interest would have triggered immediate impeachment proceedings here. But we’re not here. We’re in America, where public affairs are conducted in service of private interests. After the customs finger incident, Greenland, abandoning Ukraine, humiliating allies, the ineffective trip to Venezuela, and so many others, a new, insane adventure begins. Let them tell me Understand this clearly: I am the last to complain about the decapitation of the Mola regime and the first to demand freedom for the Iranian people. But what is the strategy for achieving this, and have the collateral damages, including for Iranians, been measured?
The answer is there is no strategy, and the collateral damage has been written off. Just like when, in January, Trump called on Iranians to take to the streets only to then let them be massacred by the Basij.
After the pretext of the imminent Iranian nuclear bomb, contradicted by the US Director of National Intelligence herself, and then the argument of regime change, it is Marco Rubio who finally spills the beans. We went because we followed Netanyahu. In other words, we have no objective of our own. Trump ignored the warnings of the few who had the courage to tell him what was obviously going to happen: the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the expansion of the War on the entire Middle East, and finally, repercussions worldwide.
In a final act of disinformation aimed solely at calming the plummeting oil prices and stock markets, he announces that negotiations are underway. The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament denies this within hours. This is the first international negotiation where one of the parties discovers it is negotiating while watching the evening news.
Oil tankers are stranded in the Gulf. The Emirates close their airspace. Influencers on the beach in Dubai plead to be repatriated. Refineries and oil fields are ablaze.
After assembling the world’s most powerful army, failing to win a war against a middle power, causing oil and gas prices to skyrocket, and delivering incoherent speeches, the golfer of Mar-a-Lago shamelessly admits to being stunned by the response, which was entirely predictable, and calls for help from the very allies who were insulting him yesterday.
And they reply: “You haven’t consulted anyone. You have no plan, and we have no reason to blindly follow you into the fog.
Trump, the only elephant in the world who walks around with his own china shop, is left with only two equally bad options: a pitiful retreat, claiming—unconvincingly—that he has achieved his objectives, or triggering escalation with the predictable results of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, leading to indifference and ultimately a shameful departure, leaving the field open to communists, ISIS, or the Taliban. The problem with Europe is that you can’t stop a disaster with fine words, by telling Israel and Ebola to lay down their weapons, and by declaring that COORMUS is not our war. That’s true, but it only underscores our impotence.
In the short term, France’s position is the right one. We are not participating in a pointless, strategyless, and unclear offensive, but we are upholding our international commitments by protecting our allies in the Gulf and the Mediterranean and by being ready to contribute to freedom of navigation in the 3rd arrondissement, as we are the only European country to have maintained operational naval air forces.
This position must be supported, but the 27 member states must also begin to address their urgent and serious problems. The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East send us a simple and clear message: we can only rely on ourselves. De Gaulle understood this first, 60 years ago. His message has been forgotten by Europeans. It is high time we finally heeded it.
Europe faces three major challenges: guaranteeing its own security, developing an effective decision-making system, and embracing the great technological, cognitive, and financial revolution of the 21st century. Otherwise, the alternative will be simple: vassalage to our allies or submission to our enemies.
The objective is to become a military power in Europe through rearmament, which involves reindustrialization and massive investments. To become a political power in Europe, including extending qualified majority voting to decision-making. Finally, to regain economic and commercial power through the implementation of the Dragi Report and the State. Everyone knows this, but little is happening. In 2022, we were told that Europe was entering a war economy. Four years later, orders are not keeping pace. The great European project, the single market, remains far from the 1993 objectives. As for the technological revolution, we are light-years away from implementing the essential financial instruments needed to catch up with the economies of the United States and China. France occupies a paradoxical position in this situation. It is the European country that best understands the situation, the only one that has maintained a more than symbolic army and a deterrent force.
But today, after 40 years of demagoguery and untenable promises, it is also facing serious budgetary difficulties. John Adams, the second president of the United States, said, “There are two ways to insulate a nation: by force of arms, by debt.”
Despite these difficulties, you, Mr. Prime Minister, have announced a significant increase in the budgets for the military programming law and an update of its objectives, following your previous action three years ago. This is an effort I commend, but it is also a challenge. The presidential campaign will begin soon. The demagoguery of both extremes, who will relentlessly call for financial mismanagement and argue that one can have one’s cake and eat it too, will place a terrible handicap on reasonable candidates. Yet, it is imperative to meet the dual challenge of our security and the restoration of order to our public spending.
The crucial question today is: how do we convince our fellow citizens?
Thank you.
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