The White House has resisted calls by a French MEP for the US to return the Statue of Liberty. The US administration has said that without US help during World War II, France would be "speaking German" today, Agence France-Presse reported, BTA reports.
"I would like to remind this unnamed, low-level French politician that it is solely because of the US that the French do not speak German today, so they should be very grateful to our great country," White House press secretary Caroline Levitt told reporters.
Levitt's statement was in response to the words of French MEP Raphael Glucksmann. During a rally yesterday, he said that the United States no longer deserves the Statue of Liberty, which was erected in France and is located in New York, and that it should be returned, the Associated Press reported.
Glucksman's comments were provoked by changes in American foreign policy under Republican Donald Trump.