As America’s political morticians gather to embalm Vice President Kamala Harris and resurrect President Donald Trump, spare a twinkling of grace for bumfuzzled European Union leaders anxious about tariffs, bewildered NATO commanders agitated about Russia, and the flummoxed French existentialists on liquid life-support in the upstairs room at Café de Flore, who disastrously maintain Trump would be a cadavre ambulant (traveling corpse) had “Crazy Kamala” been half as eloquent as Simone de Beauvoir.
Fat chance of that, but there’s precedence for Trump 47 and his enthusiasts to at least take a look; specifically, across the street from the White House, where in each corner of the seven-acre park stands a statue of four of the most honored Europeans in American history. Baron von Steuben, General Thaddeus Kosciuszko, General Jean-Baptiste Rochambeau, and, of course, the square’s namesake, Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette.
In case you were absent that day, there would be no President Trump without these guys, all of whom made no distinction between conservatives and liberals. For them, you were a Patriot or a Tory. And they all spoke French; indeed, Parisian Pierre-Charles L’Enfant served alongside George Washington at Valley Forge and in 1791 designed his capital city to reflect the glory of the Enlightenment.
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