Headlines: Emmanuel Macron's bridge speech

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By: Norbert Navarro

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To better launch a "  new stage  " in his five-year term, it is indeed a "  bridge speech  " that Emmanuel Macron will deliver, according to the formula used by a minister in Le Journal du Dimanche. This presidential intervention should also mark "the end of confinement throughout the country on June 22  ", states in A The JDD.

Who says gateway says transition. And Le Parisien Dimanche subtitles: “  It is no longer a question of stopping the country as it did in mid-March, but of making it start again. And to relaunch his five-year term, less than two years from the presidential election.  "

On this bridge, can we expect a surprise from the captain? "  Something is going to happen  ," warns, in Le Parisien Dimanche , an elected official "  accustomed to the Élysée Palace  ". Unbearable suspense…

According to Le Journal du Dimanche, however, unlike the issue of racism and police violence, the reshuffle that is being prepared "  will not be tackled this evening  " by Emmanuel Macron, who would also think of a "  postponement  " of the regional elections after the presidential election, thinks they know The JDD.

America in revolt

In France, anti-racist demonstrators took to the streets on Saturday. But it is of course in the United States that this wind of revolt was raised by the death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer. This policeman is Derek Chauvin, "who has  become the symbol of racial hatred  ", says Causeur. "  Worse yet, this policeman [...] has become the symbol of Trump's America, the one that the American Democratic left has been vomiting for almost four years on CNN sets, the one accused of all evils [...] A racist criminal. It does not matter that his wife […] was a Laotian refugee. Derek Chauvin […] embodies Trump in the heads of hordes of anti-fas  », adds Causeur.

And while, as the front page of Courrier international, "  America revolts  ", and according to this weekly, a "  black anger  " shakes the country of Donald Trump, L'Express magazine , conversely , claims in front page that with his "  pyromaniac strategy  " that is practiced by the American president, "  in the end, Trump wins  ."

Arsonist, Donald Trump? "  He prefers to address his followers, white and ultraconservative, and blow on the embers by stigmatizing the demonstrators, often peaceful however, notes L'Express. […] And while the demonstrations spread across the country, he called the governors “weak” and urged them to “toughen the tone” and “dominate”  ” .

Trump washes whiter

In doing so, Donald Trump is betting on a real constant in the history of the United States. As L'Express once again points out , American voters “  never change the president when their country is at war. Lincoln was re-elected during the American Civil War, Roosevelt at the start of World War II, and George W. Bush defeated John Kerry during the Iraq conflict. Trump got the message,  "says L'Express.

In that same weekly, African-American DeWayne Wickham said last week about Donald Trump that his "  Make America Great Again  " movement must be understood "  as an effort to resist the demographic prediction that by 2050 Whites will be in the minority [in the United States]. For Trump and his supporters, it's about delaying this moment and ensuring that, on that day, power remains in their hands. Hence the anti-immigration laws, the construction of the wall on the border with Mexico or the maneuvers aimed at complicating the electoral participation of blacks , explains this professor at Morgan State University in Baltimore ", reported L'Express .

And this week, it is to another American academic that this magazine refers to support its victorious prediction for the man of the White House that this newspaper calls "  the president of chaos  ". It was to Steven Levitsky that L'Express asked to explain why. This Harvard professor reports that Trump's core group (43% of voters) "  has hardly been eroded. Unlike his predecessors, the president never went much higher ... but never went down either. Next November everyone will be there, predicts Steven Levitsky in L'Express. For them, Trump is the man who defends them and spits in the face of the elites. As long as he does the job, they will vote for him  ”, regardless of the number of victims of coronavirus in the United States.

Farewell of stars at PSG

Confirmed departure for two PSG stars, Thiago Silva and Edinson Cavani. The sports director of Paris-Saint-Germain confirms this in Le Journal du Dimanche . Leonardo pays tribute to these two players "  who have marked the history of the club, " he told JDD. […] But yes, we are coming to the end. You had to make a logical decision  . ” Leonardo, crampons logician ... Latin America football had gotten us used to better.

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