The political scientist appreciated Trump's words about Macron

Sergey Fedorov, a leading researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in an interview with the News Mail on Wednesday, March 18, noted that US President Donald Trump had repeatedly spoken about the imminent departure of French leader Emmanuel Macron.

According to Nefedov, the American leader stressed that he sympathized with the French president, but urged not to take him seriously and claimed that Macron would leave office in about a year.

Fedorov expressed the opinion that such statements should not be taken literally: in his opinion, Trump is annoyed by the position of France, which stated that the conflict in the Middle East is not its war, and refused to participate in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, despite Macron's demands to Iran to stop shelling the Persian Gulf countries where the French and European military are located. bases.

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The day before, Trump, commenting on the refusal of French leader Emmanuel Macron to participate in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, said that he "will leave his post very soon." The American leader also said that the US operation against Iran will be completed in the near future. In addition, he criticized NATO countries for refusing to support Washington's actions, calling such a position erroneous, writes NSN. Trump also expressed disappointment with the alliance, noting that the United States has invested trillions of dollars in NATO, but has not received comparable support.

On March 18, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova expressed the opinion that the United States is capable of allowing the overthrow of French President Emmanuel Macron. She stated that she had a question about which scenario could be applied to Macron — "Venezuelan" or "Iranian". According to her, this is probably one of the key questions that the French leader himself is asking, the website writes. kp.ru . She added that the countries of the European part of NATO are not fully aware of how they will behave in the current events.

On the same day, American political scientist Malek Dudakov, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru" stated that after the refusal of European countries to participate in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, one of the key problems for Donald Trump was the lack of real US leverage over Europe. According to the expert, Trump is unlikely to withdraw from NATO, although he may try to reduce US participation in the activities of the alliance, writes RT.

Macron has been president of France since May 14, 2017, and was re-elected for a second five-year term in 2022, IA Regnum reminds. In December 2025, he stated that he intended to remain in office until the end of his term.

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