President Joe Biden did his best to rekindle the bromance with Emmanuel Macron on Friday but the French president offered a cool response as he suggested the U.S. might have to do more to repair wounded relations.
‘We are building the trust again,’ he told French reporters after the meeting, according to the Associated Press.
‘Trust is like love, declarations are good, but proof is better.’
A rather more poetic version of ‘trust but verify.’
In public they had smiled, wrapped their arms around each other and showed the world things were on the mend after France‘s fury at the AUKUS pact…
