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French politician jokes US should return Statue of Liberty for siding with ‘tyrants’

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Raphaël Glucksmann quipped that the US should return the Statue of Liberty after Donald Trump ’s decision “to side with the tyrants” against Ukraine .

France gave the statue to the US in 1884 , the 108th anniversary of the American declaration of independence from the UK .

Trump 's White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt , responded by calling him an “unnamed low-level French politician” and saying the US would keep the statue.