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President Donald Trump broke out a French accent during a White House roundtable Friday while recounting a call he had shared with French President Emmanuel Macron regarding lowering drug prices.
Trump hosted a rural healthcare roundtable Friday at the White House, where he celebrated investments made in rural communities under the “big, beautiful bill,” signed in July 2025. Amid his conversation with lawmakers and health officials, Trump recounted a phone call he shared with Macron as he worked to bring parity to U.S. drug prices that were far higher than prices in Europe.
Trump signed an executive order in May establishing a “most-favored-nation” drug pricing policy, directing the U.S. to pay no more than the lowest price charged by other developed countries for the same medications. Europe — including France — would have to pay more for drugs, Trump argued, because their ultra-low government-set prices let pharmaceutical companies shift costs onto Americans.
Recalling the conversation he had with Macron, Trump revealed how he’d negotiated with the French president, humorously using an accent to quote the foreign leader.
“I said, ‘Emmanuel,’” Trump said.
“‘Yes, Donald, Donald. Thank you so much for calling,” he said in a Macron impersonation.
“I said, ‘You’re not going to like this call,'” Trump continued.
“‘You’re going to have to get your drug prices up,'” Trump recalled saying.
“No, no, no, no, no, I will not do that,'” Macron answered, according to Trump .
“I said, ‘Emmanuel, we’re paying 13 times more than — 13 times, not 13% — 13 times more than you are for this bill.’ I rattled off some numbers that are crazy. You know the numbers I’m talking about,” the president continued.
“‘Here’s the story, Emmanuel. If you don’t do it, I’m going to put a 25% tariff on all goods, wine, champagnes and everything else coming into the United States of America.'”
“He said, ‘Donald, I would love to do this for you. It would be a great honor to do it,’” Trump recalled. “And that’s where it began. And I went through country after country.”
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