Thursday was National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day in the United States, but French ambassador to the U.S. Gérard Araud apparently wanted Americans to know that not everyone remembers Pearl Harbor Day the same way. In a quickly deleted tweet, Araud chided the United States for refusing to side with France and the U.K. in the 1930s.
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/938905011102339072
Dear Lord. https://t.co/NSCK4BtBgS
— John Podhoretz (@jpodhoretz) December 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/938906120185438208
The Ambassador of France to the United States marks the anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor… https://t.co/7hBk907HGj
— Dr. Petra Marquardt-Bigman (@WarpedMirrorPMB) December 7, 2017
How did this guy get his job? https://t.co/5pPBcZriPY
— Jack Ryan (@cnn94cnn) December 7, 2017
BREAKING: Boris Johnson no longer the world's most incompetent practitioner of the diplomatic arts. https://t.co/af4jCnEzng
— Lord WarGit of Nightmare Inn (@WarGit) December 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/938905551047667712
French Ambassador to United States has a "hold my vin ordinaire" moment. https://t.co/5sheyDSC8T
— IWantNothingHat (@Popehat) December 7, 2017
Back to Freedom Fries https://t.co/jIILtR45CC
— Greg Pollowitz (@GPollowitz) December 7, 2017
Notice how he didn't write this in German? pic.twitter.com/NDOd4bhcu5
— ?It's?Almost ⛄️Christmas? (@jtLOL) December 7, 2017
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Reagan's speech at Normandy? This is the French ambassador to the U.S., tweeting out the exact opposite of that speech. https://t.co/PaMzWaqm40
— Jeff Dufour (@dcdufour) December 7, 2017
Not just offensive but straight-up wrong. Just because America didn't enter the war until after Pearl Harbor doesn't mean it didn't quite clearly pick a side in the years leading up to it. https://t.co/pJWPXotEY5
— Adam Shaw (@AdamShawNY) December 7, 2017
You can oppose U.S. policies & government decisions without displaying petty and immature anti-Americanism. A majority of Americans are on the right side of history. https://t.co/pNjl8SRZUg
— JG (@JGM7) December 7, 2017
Araud retweeted this tweet, which we’re guessing says what he meant to say in the first place.
https://twitter.com/AviWoolf/status/938906307301662725
Fair point. Still, that’s not quite how we remember Pearl Harbor here in the States.
https://twitter.com/BretStephensNYT/status/938898458869563392
@GerardAraud That was the fastest delete I've ever seen, but man that was a really, really bad take.
— Derek McConnell (@dcmrph) December 7, 2017
UK, France and US committed awful mistakes in the 30s. Because of its geography, France was the first to pay for them. https://t.co/EY0hjoF3KT
— Gérard Araud (@GerardAraud) December 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/GerardAraud/status/938901177797939200
Could the United States at least get a “thank you” for what it did in the 1940s?
We are immensely grateful for what the US did for France in 1944 but it is a fact that US, France and UK commited mistakes in the 30s.
— Gérard Araud (@GerardAraud) December 7, 2017
https://twitter.com/AvBronstein/status/938908789172047877
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