French Politician Demands US Send Back Statue of Liberty - There's Only One Thing Trump Should Ask for In Return

A French lawmaker recently made what seemed to be a sarcastic request for President Donald Trump to return the Statue of Liberty.

Raphael Glucksmann, a representative of France in the European Parliament, addressed his fellow members in the Socialists and Democrats alliance, asserting that the United States should give back the monument, which was originally gifted in 1886.

“We’re going to say to the Americans who have chosen to side with the tyrants, to the Americans who fired researchers for demanding scientific freedom: ‘Give us back the Statue of Liberty,’” Glucksmann stated, according to a Saturday report from Politico.

“We gave it to you as a gift, but apparently you despise it. So it will be just fine here at home,” he added.

Continuing his critique of the Trump administration’s efforts to streamline government operations, which resulted in cuts to grants and contracts for politically motivated research, Glucksmann suggested that France could take in those researchers instead.

“The second thing we’re going to say to the Americans is: ‘If you want to fire your best researchers, if you want to fire all the people who, through their freedom and their sense of innovation, their taste for doubt and research, have made your country the world’s leading power, then we’re going to welcome them,’” he continued.

However, Glucksmann’s remarks were met with little more than ridicule in the United States.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded on Monday, suggesting the French official was out of line for making such a demand.

“My advice to that unnamed low-level French politician would be to remind them that it’s only because of the United States Of America that the French are not speaking German right now,” she countered.

“They should be very grateful.”

If anything, Trump could argue that a more suitable trade would be the entire country of France in exchange for the Statue of Liberty.

Glucksmann appeared to overlook the fact that it was American troops who liberated France from Nazi occupation during World War II, just a few decades after the Statue of Liberty was sent across the Atlantic.

Many American soldiers fought and lost their lives on D-Day and in the battles that followed to ensure France’s freedom, a reality the French people typically express appreciation for.

To this day, the American cemetery in Normandy, where fallen U.S. soldiers are laid to rest, remains recognized as a piece of American soil, symbolizing France’s enduring gratitude.

Perhaps Glucksmann could take a moment to reflect on that gratitude.

As it stands, Lady Liberty is staying right where she is—on American ground, just like those gravestones.

But if France wants those woke researchers, they’re more than welcome to take them. No land exchange required—it would be a deal America can easily afford to make.