It’s unclear to what a part of the inauguration Zemmour and Knafo have been invited or who precisely reached out to them. POLITICO has contacted the Trump transition workforce for remark.
Whereas it could seem at first look that Trump and Le Pen have been comprised of the identical political mould, fusing old school protectionism with an anti-immigration, populist platform, the duo have by no means actually hit it off the best way the president-elect has with Europe’s different distinguished hard-right politicians, corresponding to Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or Italy’s Giorgia Meloni.
Not like Le Pen, each Zemmour and Knafo espouse a liberal financial worldview extra consistent with that of Musk, who in current weeks has jolted mainstream European politics by weighing in on home affairs in the UK, Italy and Germany, the place he has endorsed the Different for Germany (AfD) in subsequent month’s snap election regardless of the occasion’s struggles to shake off accusations of getting Nazi sympathies.
Curiously, Musk has but to publicly say something about France. The SpaceX, Tesla and X boss attended the reopening of the Notre-Dame cathedral final month with Trump, and French President Emmanuel Macron is reportedly making an attempt to foyer the duo to attend his synthetic intelligence summit in Paris in February.
Zemmour’s invite may show to be one thing of a political coup for a determine whose affect has waned considerably since his lightning marketing campaign for president in 2022 dominated headlines. Zemmour even stated on the time he was receiving recommendation from Trump. However when the primary spherical of the vote lastly arrived, the controversial pundit-turned-politician netted a paltry 7 p.c.
Since then, Knafo, the only MEP for Zemmour’s occasion, Reconquest, within the European Parliament, has been an lively supporter of Trump’s return to the White Home and has cultivated contacts along with his workforce. Knafo attended a Trump occasion within the U.S. in October.
