“Incendiary emperor and buffoon under ketamine”: the anti-top and musk discourse of a French senator becomes viral in the United States

Did Claude Malhuret’s words reached the ears of Donald Trump and Elon Musk? The boss of the Senators The Independents delivered an anti-Trump and Musk speech to the Senate on Wednesday evening, so a salient that the latter even went around the United States.

View more than 500,000 times on the normally calm YouTube channel of Public Senate, the video has also been translated and shared by several American media including CNN. “Stop right away what you are doing to look at the intervention of this French senator,” asked his readers the Huffington Post American.

“He touched a sensitive string”

In these eight minutes of speeches, a passage describing the American president as the Emperor Nero who had let Rome burn in 64 AD notably caused a sensation. “Washington has become the court of Nero, an incendiary emperor, submitted courtiers and a buffoon under ketamine responsible for the purification of the public service. It is a drama for the free world but it is first of all a drama for the United States, “he said.

“If there have been so many reactions, it is on the one hand because that is what many people think, undoubtedly a majority of Americans today,” said Senator Claude Malhuret on Franceinfo this Sunday. And to the question of whether he is waiting for a response from Trump, the senator remained calm: “I have nothing to fear. »»