{"id":937815,"date":"2021-10-29T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937815"},"modified":"2021-10-29T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T18:43:54","slug":"joe-biden-admits-to-emmanuel-macron-he-was-clueless-and-clumsy-over-axed-australian-submarine-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-admits-to-emmanuel-macron-he-was-clueless-and-clumsy-over-axed-australian-submarine-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden Admits to Emmanuel Macron He Was Clueless and &#039;Clumsy&#039; over Axed Australian Submarine Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjoe-biden-admits-to-emmanuel-macron-he-was-clueless-and-clumsy-over-axed-australian-submarine-deal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=937815&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, admitting he was unaware he upset the French while making a submarine deal with Australia in September.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was under the impression that France had been informed long before \u2026 honest to God I did not know you had not been,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/video\/?515713-1\/president-biden-meets-french-president-macron\">admitted<\/a> to Macron during the meeting which took place in Rome ahead of the G-20 summit.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, NATO ally France was furious that the United States joined with the UK and made a deal with Australia in September to provide them with nuclear submarines, which prompted Australia to cancel their deal with the French.<\/p>\n<p>Even more insulting to the French, was they found out about the deal from the press, not from the Americans or the Australians much less the UK.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden was conciliatory during the meeting with Macron.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18519626\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1236206678.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-18519626\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-1236206678-1024x666-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"644\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>French President Emmanuel Macron (R) and U.S. President Joe Biden (L) meet at the French Embassy to the Vatican in Rome on October 29, 2021. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI think what happened was to use an English phrase, what we did was clumsy, not done with a lot of grace,\u201d Biden said. \u201cI was under the impression that certain things had happened that hadn\u2019t happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time that Biden has met with Macron since the diplomatic dispute.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if the relationship between France and the United States had been repaired, Macron replied, \u201cWe clarified together what we had to clarify\u201d calling the clarification \u201cextremely important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In September, France <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/09\/17\/france-ambassador-australia-submarine-deal\/\">recalled<\/a> their ambassador to the United States, an unprecedented demonstration of their anger with the deal.<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/22\/joe-biden-calls-french-president-emmanuel-macron-to-admit-diplomatic-failure\/\">personally<\/a> spoke with Macron on the phone several days after the incident, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2021\/09\/22\/joint-statement-on-the-phone-call-between-president-biden-and-president-macron\/\">agreeing<\/a> that the United States should have consulted with France before announcing the deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden met with French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, admitting he was unaware he upset the French while making a submarine deal with Australia in September. \u201cI was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}