Interviewée par « Politico » sur Donald Trump
Publié le 30 août 2015
Donald Trump fait l’objet de toutes les attentions, au grand dam de ses adversaires républicains : des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, les médias se régalent de ses provocations et de ses « petites phrases ». J’ai été interviewée par Nicholas Vinocur pour Politico, à propos de la fascination que Trump exerce en Europe et notamment en France, dans le cadre d’un article intitulé « Europeans are obsessed with Donald Trump » et publié le 28 août 2015 :
The loud-mouthed billionaire businessman embodies what Europeans love to hate about the U.S.
PARIS — The media here has got a Continental strain of Trump fever.
Since the real estate mogul made a shocking surge to the top of the Republican presidential polls in the U.S., Europe has fixated on the unapologetic showman, churning out a steady stream of news coverage and commentary.
On Thursday, France’s Libération newspaper devoted its entire front page to a photo of a snarling Donald, with an inch-high headline that read: “Donald Trump — The American Nightmare.”
The Continent has its share of outrageous personalities on the political right of center: Britain’s Nigel Farage, Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi, France’s family Le Pen. But Trump fits many perceived European stereotypes of America: excess, vulgarity, ignorance, superficiality, love of wealth, to name a few.
“Trump represents the America that we love to hate,” said Marie-Cécile Naves, a sociologist and author of “Le nouveau visage des droites américaines” (“The New Face of the American Right”). “He is our negative mirror image, a man we see as brutal, who worships money and lacks culture — someone who lets us feel a bit superior about being European.”
Lire la suite de l’article de Nicholas Vinocur ici.
(AP Photo, Politico)