Éric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo invited to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20 in Washington

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Jan 8, 2025

Éric Zemmour and Sarah Knafo invited to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20 in Washington

For his return inauguration at the White House, United States President-elect Donald Trump innovated by inviting politically “friendly” foreign heads of state. Thus we should find the heiress of the Italian extreme right Giorgia Meloni, the Argentine ultraliberal and populist Javier Milei but also the Hungarian Viktor Orbán. And if Emmanuel Macron does not find his place among this circle of friends, France will be present in its own way on January 20.

Thus, the former polemicist and president of the Reconquest party Éric Zemmour may well have been betrayed by his own troops last summer, be now politically isolated and already buried by all his direct competitors… he will still be present in Washington, with his only MEP and partner Sarah Knafo.

According to information from Politico confirmed to Le Parisien – Today in France, the couple will thus witness the Republican’s return to the White House, four years after being ejected by Democrat Joe Biden. The invitation would have been sent to them on the day of the American billionaire’s victory in November. “It’s the possibility of creating links with the person at the head of the leading world power, we are not going to deprive ourselves of it…”, slips a Reconquest executive. Without knowing if Zemmour and Knafo will really be able to approach the new president in any way. It doesn’t matter: it’s the symbol of the invitation that counts.

A trip by Marine Le Pen, “we are thinking about it”

Sarah Knafo found herself the sole representative of Reconquest in the European Parliament, after the secession of Marion Maréchal and the three other elected officials from the Zemmourist list. But she worked to build a network, within the European extreme right (she sits in particular with the sulfurous German AfD party) and also with the Trumpist galaxy. She spent part of her summer at an American conservative think tank, the Claremont Institute, close to the Trump networks. Enough to manage to find an entry ticket to witness the return of the unpredictable Trump.

However, no sesame seems to have arrived on the National Rally side, a party that is much more established than Reconquest in the political landscape, with Marine Le Pen a finalist in the last two presidential elections. Hadn’t the Frontist heiress tried (and failed) to meet Donald Trump during the 2017 campaign in New York? In Marine Le Pen’s team, we continue to affirm that her trip for the nomination is “not in the pipeline”. Even if some at the RN are asking the question. “We are thinking about it,” party vice-president Louis Aliot simply replied to our newspaper.

The situation between the United States and certain European countries has become tense in recent days, while Elon Musk, powerful boss of X and strongman of the Trump galaxy, has given his support to the German AfD, or still openly criticizes the English Labor Prime Minister Keir Starmer. On Monday, Emmanuel Macron accused him of supporting a “new reactionary international”.