On the one hand, Americans are not putting up with bravados like the one by French President Emmanuel Macron, who called for a freeze on European investment on the US as a response for the tariffs that Donald J. Trump slapped on the European Union.
On the other, some government agencies are still operating on a non-America First line, and US-taxpayers’ money is still wasted on people who hate America.
Daniel Turner, the Founder & Executive Director of the non-profit Power The Future, rightfully indignant with this situation, wrote on X:
“French President Macron wants European companies to end all American investments. Two can play this game, Emmanuel. President @realDonaldTrump should immediately cancel the $5 billion U.S. loan for France’s TotalEnergies African LNG project.”
French President Macron wants European companies to end all American investments.
Two can play this game, Emmanuel.
President @realDonaldTrump should immediately cancel the $5 billion U.S. loan for France’s TotalEnergies African LNG project. pic.twitter.com/HYoTPFALe0
— Daniel Turner (@DanielTurnerPTF) April 4, 2025
As a proof of just how important social media communications have become, longtime foreign policy adviser and current Envoy for Special Missions Richard Grenell picked up on the post and sent it to Trump:
I just sent this to DJT.
Good idea! https://t.co/0hFudrbio8
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) April 4, 2025
In a report from mid-March, we see that the US Export-Import Bank’s decision to bankroll was already being heavily criticized as detrimental to the American LNG industry.
Washington Free Beacon reported:
“A federal agency quietly approved a $5 billion loan on Thursday to fund a liquefied natural gas facility in Mozambique owned by TotalEnergies, a French company that has a history of working with foreign adversaries, including Iran, Russia, and China.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank’s decision to finance TotalEnergies’ LNG project is facing backlash from conservatives wary of foreign aid spending, as well as the U.S. LNG industry, which says the facility will compete with American businesses. Critics note that a long-awaited Alaska LNG pipeline proposal, which President Trump touted in his address to Congress this month, would face direct competition from the TotalEnergies facility.
[…] Rick Perry, Trump’s former energy secretary, told the Washington Free Beacon that the TotalEnergies Mozambique project ‘directly competes with the U.S. LNG industry, at a time when the President is looking to expand it’.
‘President Trump and his cabinet have been very clear that this administration will restore American energy dominance and protect the U.S. energy industry and the millions of people that support it’, said Perry. ‘The proposal for ExIm bank to send $5 billion in taxpayer dollars to fund a foreign owned project in Africa contradicts this priority’.”
For context, this is one of the biggest loans @EximBankUS has ever done.
And it was quietly approved last month, under Donald Trump, but before his nominee has been confirmed and in the job.
This must be stopped. https://t.co/PkBIn50s5t
— Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) April 4, 2025
America First is more than a slogan; it’s the guiding principle of the revolutionary Donald J. Trump’s administration – and millions of patriotic Americans are paying close attention to all its implications.
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