Le Pen used to boast that “I say out loud what others think in silence.” That sentiment is echoed by Trump and users of Elon Musk’s X
Le Pen used to boast ‘I say out loud what others think in silence’. That sentiment is echoed by Trump and users of Elon Musk’s X
‘I make a mark in the grass with my foot as I go.’ How GAA groundstaff line pitches for new football rulesDespite his extreme views and erratic behaviour, Trump was able to take over the Republican Party. Le Pen’s anti-Semitism made him a pariah, shunned by mainstream French conservatives. By expelling her father from the FN, rechristening it the National Rally and renouncing anti-Semitism, Marine Le Pen won over much of the conservative, neo-Gaullist Les Républicains party.
Le Pen and Trump resembled one another: truculent, boastful, vengeful, unrepentant and deliberately provocative; they filled a need for bread and circuses. They dismissed criticism with tirades against political correctness and woke-ism. Both turned politics into a family business. French media likened the life of the Le Pen clan in a mansion overlooking Paris – which Le Pen inherited in dubious circumstances from a supporter – to the television series Dallas.
Le Pen was convicted more than 25 times for defending war crimes, provoking hatred and discrimination, anti-Semitism and public insults. By election day, Donald Trump had racked up 34 felony indictments, one conviction, two impeachments and six bankruptcies. Like Le Pen, Trump claimed the justice system was rigged against him.
Le Pen, like Trump, evaluated women based on their sexual attractiveness. And he could be every bit as lewd as Trump. Over lunch with a handful of journalists, including this correspondent, on the eve of his qualification for the runoff in the French presidential election in 2002, Le Pen judged then first lady Bernadette Chirac “un-f**kable” and denigrated political adversaries as “men who could no longer honour their wives”.
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