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- French President Emmanuel Macron posted King Charles III’s language joke from the White House state dinner on social media, calling the quip “chic.”
- The king had joked that Americans might speak French at a dinner hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, referencing Donald Trump’s earlier remark that without the United States other nations would speak German or Japanese.
- Emmanuel Macron said the joke would make French a “chic” global lingua franca.
