FRANCE/TARIFFS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The honeymoon between presidents Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron of France is over. A relationship that blossomed with a white-knuckled handshake, dinner at the Eiffel Tower, bonding over a French military parade and bursts of presidential air kisses at the White House is suddenly wilting in the cold light of commercial realpolitik. Mr. Macron has emerged as Mr. Trump’s chief public critic over the American president’s refusal to exempt Western allies from new U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, dampening the mood between them Friday [6-8-18] at the Group of Seven nations summit in Charlevoix, Canada. On Thursday [6-7-18], the French leader acknowledged that images of Mr. Macron’s ‘bromance’ with Mr. Trump haven’t aged well. In the year since Mr. Macron began to court the president—inviting him to Paris for a Bastille Day military parade—Mr. Trump hasn’t only introduced tariffs. He has also withdrawn from the Paris climate accord and the Iranian nuclear deal, agreements that Mr. Macron holds dear.”
-Stacy Meichtry, “End of L’Affaire: Trade Spat Halts Trump-Macron ‘Bromance’,” The Wall Street Journal, June 8, 2018 1:11 pm