Oliver Conway

Now, Trump defends his country's interests.

What I criticise French leaders for, and European leaders more broadly, is for not defending their country's interests strongly enough.

It is true that Trump was giving a nod to patriotic parties around the world, and I welcome that with a certain goodwill.

But as for me, I wish to defend the interests of my country tomorrow.

I do not like this vassalisation of Europe towards any great power.

However, it is true that mass immigration and the laxity of our leaders over the past 30 years regarding migration policies are today disrupting the power balance of European societies, Western societies and particularly the French society.

You call it a cliché about your party.

It's a fact.

Your party was a racist party.

It is the history of the National Rally.

After it stopped being the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen described the gas chambers used by the Nazis to murder millions of Jews in this continent as a footnote in history.

Do you not need to say to people, we were a racist party, we need to change?

I reject these accusations because there has never been, in the DNA or in the proposal of the National Front, now the National Rally, any statements or proposals intending to harm or offend groups of people in my country.

However, it is true that there were remarks by Jean-Marie Le Pen which eventually caused a political rupture between the party's founder and Marine Le Pen, then its president.

On the key issue of fighting anti-Semitism, she judged that Jean-Marie Le Pen's ambiguities and verbal provocations were dragging the entire political movement into an unacceptable situation.

And so in 2015, Marine Le Pen, as I remind you, took the responsibility, an extremely difficult personal decision, of expelling her own father from the National Front.

The French National Rally leader Jordan Bardella.

It's not just America's national security strategy that's changing under Donald Trump.

It's the typeface used to present it as well.

The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman for official communications.